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Adverbs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify the function of adverbs and use them in sentences. They discuss how adverbs answer when, how, how often, and where, and identify the nouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs in sentences. Students then act...
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Diamontes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a diamonte about bats. In this diamonte lesson plan, students review parts of speech and bat vocabulary. They take their vocabulary and plug it into a diamonte poem that compares bats with another animal using nouns,...
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Great Britons

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students read an online article focusing on discussion work, and practice comparative and superlative adjectives.
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Bah Humbug

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to two famous stories about people who do not like Christmas, and then create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the main characters.
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Self-portrait Poem

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars practice naming various features or parts of their bodies using similes and vivid adjectives. The format is extended to poetic expressions as they develop a self-portrait and extend the creative experience through art.
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Similes: As Smart as a Horse

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this simile worksheet, students use a word bank of adjectives to write a set of similes. A reference website for additional activities is given.
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So, Who Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm adjectives that describe people, discuss different ways of comparing and/or finding contrast in describing a person, and write drafts of their descriptions.
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Powerful Poetry Presenting the Writer's Soul

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students research Langston Hughes poetry for his use of figurative language. In this poetry analysis instructional activity, students research the life and poetry of Langston Hughes and his use of vivid words. Students complete...
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The Superlative Story

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this grammar instructional activity, students complete sentences using superlatives. Students choose the appropriate superlative for sentences within a story. They answer additional questions about the story.
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Simile Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simile worksheet, students use a word bank of 18 adjectives to write similes. Examples and explanations are given at the top of the page. 
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What is Grammar and How Should We Teach It?

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Young scholars review comparisons through a text, to heighten student's awareness of the use of modifiers and nouns with comparatives.
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Classic Poetry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review the terms narrative and classic poetry. They are introduced to SMUGGLER'S SONG and compare the structure to recently read poetry. They join in on the refrain reading the story together as a class.
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I See and I Think (It's A Wonderful World)

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities...
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Quiz: Using Er and More

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this "er" and more instructional activity, students look at pictures and write sentences to compare 2 items, using adjective in a box and "er than" or "more than." May be used as practice or quiz.
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
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Autobiographical Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this unique lesson on autobiographical writing, students compare and contrast three types of writing: narrative, poetry and newspaper. Students prepare to produce a short autobiographical writing based on the framework of one of the...
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Metaphors

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this metaphors worksheet, students practice writing sentences using metaphors. Students are given fifteen adjectives that describe someone and students use a metaphor to write a sentence about the adjective.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 1

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL activity, students read 12 sentences that have missing adjectives or adverbs. From 5 choices, students choose the best word to complete each sentence.
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Building New York

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the role African Americans played in the expansion of New York.  In this American History lesson, 11th graders compare and contrast the images of a wealthy, free black against a black who was poor and...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Articles and Things

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this adjective articles activity, students practice their grammar skills as they examine 8 proofreading them for article mistakes. Students also respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Aggravating Adverbs Too

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how to use the correct forms of adverbs to compare actions.
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Socializing at Work

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars practice social conversation using adjectives and phrases describing good and bad weather. They review the present perfect continuous, present continuous, past continuous and future continuous tenses.
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Looking at Portraits: Reading Poe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.
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Challenging Regional Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the regional stereotypes that exist in Whales and formulate personal opinions about these views. Students discuss the impact of adjectives used to describe people from different regions of the U.K.

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