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Statements and Questions
Teach your class the differences between statements and questions with a simple activity. After reading four statements, third graders rewrite the sentences as questions. They do the opposite in the last section. A helpful activity for...
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The Auxiliaries "Be" and "Do" in Questions
In this writing questions activity, students change ten statements into questions by using the corresponding auxiliary "be" or "do".
Fabius-Pompey School District
Paired Passage Practice and the Extended Response Question
How do pupils relate paired passages to each other? Here's a resource that helps! The lesson includes a short story and a poem as a set of paired reading passages, followed by some analysis questions. It also includes an essay template...
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Questions
Explore end punctuation with this multi-step activity on question marks. Scholars begin by finishing 10 sentences with either a period or a question mark. Consider discussing patterns they see at this point (first word, inflection,...
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Question Marks
Context clues are important when understanding the intent of a sentence. Kindergartners read eight sentences, and decide if each should end in a period or in a question mark. The last two questions prompt kids to draw a mouse and a cat,...
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With Your Own Two Hands: Are You Changing the World or "Waiting for the World to Change"?
Can your pupils change the world? Explore this question with Ben Harper's song "With My Own Two Hands" and John Mayer's "Waiting for the World to Change." After listening to the songs, they discuss the tools at their disposal for...
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Making Questions 13
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 2 fill in the blank questions that require to change statements into questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Making Questions 14
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 2 fill in the blank questions that require them to change statements into questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Questions With the Verb
Learning how to change a statement into a question is an important skill for learners to master. Using this 12 question instructional activity, elementary and older ESL students practice this skill.
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Questions about Thanksgiving
In this writing questions worksheet, students examine 5 statements regarding Thanksgiving. They then change them into questions with the same essential meaning.
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Thesis Statements
A good thesis is hard to craft. Model for your writers how to develop and refine thesis statements with a series of slides that discuss the purpose and format of this all-important sentence. Viewers following along as the process is...
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Adele's ESL Corner: Present Perfect-Questions
In this ESL present perfect questions worksheet, student change given statements into questions. Students may check answers on line.
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Questions and Statements
For this questions and statements worksheet, students read 12 examples and identify each as a question or a statement. Students also change 5 statements into questions and 5 questions into statements.
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Questions About Thanksgiving
This writing worksheet asks students to read and rewrite 5 statements associated with Thanksgiving into questions. This worksheet would be quite useful when teaching students the differences between declarative and interrogative sentences.
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Simple Past: Wh- Questions
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 5 fill in the blank questions that require them to rewrite statements as questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Question Tags
This resource assesses learners on their knowledge of question tags and their placement in sentences. Six multiple-choice questions are provided, and learners must select the appropriate answer for each. A detailed answer guide is also...
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English - "What, Why, When, How, Where, Who?" - Framing Questions to Obtain Information
Students explore interviewing skills. For this interviewing skills lesson, students frame questions to obtain informative answers as they use what, why, when, how, where, and who questions.
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Present Tense Questions
In this using the present tense in questions worksheet, students change each statement into a question using the present tense.
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The Tempest: Anticipation Guide
Begin your unit on William Shakespeare's The Tempest with a helpful anticipation guide. Learners read ten statements that connect to the play's literary themes, and note whether they believe the statement is true or false.
Novelinks
Sense and Sensibility: Anticipation Guide Reading Strategy
Begin your discussion about Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility before you even open the book. Kids fill in a worksheet that lists five statements about the literary themes of the novel, and then discuss their opinions as a group. Once...
Bermudian Springs School District
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath — Independent Reading
Lies, deceit, betrayal, criminality: these topics are just a few of the reasons that John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath has captivated people since its 1939 publication. Scholars begin the lesson by reading background...
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Preamble to the Constitution: A Close Reading Lesson
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." These familiar lines begin the Preamble to the Constitution, but do learners know what they mean? A close reading exercise takes a look at the language of the...
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Simple Past: Yes/No Questions
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 5 fill in the blank questions that require them to write statements as questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Outsiders: Anticipation Guide
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is always a favorite for middle and high school readers because it addresses issues that hit home to them, decades after the book is set. Have learners fill out an anticipation guide that encourages them to...