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Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence
Young scholars become familiar with body changes during puberty. In this stages of human development lesson, students review the stages of development from 1-5. Young scholars read an article called I'm Growing but Am I Normal? and...
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Introducing 'Communication Talent' with "Casey at the Bat"
Students listen to the poem "Casey at the Bat". They use their Forecasting Skill to answer questions and discuss the poem.
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Vocabulary Builder- Using Inspiration to Generate Lists of Descriptive Words
Learners discover how to engage all their senses and powers of observation to effectively communicate and idea or emotion. Using Inspiration Software, they create a vocabulary web and practice using descriptive language to clarify and...
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Dorothea Lange
Students explain that a person's experiences influence their life, write a time line of their life, and analyze Dorothea's photographs and list descriptive words.
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The Stigma Within
Students role play the part of someone with a mental illness and the families they are members of. They act out the scenes from cue cards and other students can state their questions and comments.
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Adjectives
In this grammar worksheet, pupils read 10 sentences about a variety of topics. Students complete each sentence by filling in the correct participle.
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Choosing the Correct Verb in Sentences
In this language arts worksheet, students choose the correct verb from 2 choices in each of 25 sentences. Students decide if the verb needs to be present or past tense.
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Which Way to School?
For this going to school maze worksheet, students help pupils walk to school by tracing a path from home to the school building in a maze puzzle.
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Adjectives - ed or -ing exercise
In this adjectives activity, students fill in the blank to sentences with adjectives given to them. Students choose the -ed or -ing version of the adjective for 20 sentences and make up 3 of their own.
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Make, Let, To Be Allowed To Exercise
In this modal verbs of obligation worksheet, students read 18 sentences with missing verbs and fill in the correct modal verb form of "make, let, or to be allowed to".
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Idioms-Fruits and Vegetables
In this idiom learning exercise, learners translate 4 fruit/vegetable idioms, then complete 8 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct idiom.
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Adjectives: -ed or -ing
In this -ed or -ing adjectives worksheet, students complete sentences by choosing the correct form of the adjective.
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The most commonly misspelled words in English
Ninth graders examine the different misspelled words in the English language. In this English lesson, 9th graders read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students write an email to their teacher about what they have read.
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Prepositions after Adjectives
In this prepositions after adjectives instructional activity, learners read extracts from the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" to find prepositions after adjectives and match beginnings and endings to form sentences.
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Photography for Language Use and Awareness
Students make storyboards and take photographs for slides to illustrate stories or "how to" demonstrations and write and recorded scripts to accompany their slides.
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"My Friend's Got This Problem, Mr. Chandler," by Mel Glenn
Students read, "My Friend's Got This Problem, Mr. Chandler," discuss it and write a response to one of the poems.
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Dialog Expansion, Structure Drills
Students practice speaking sentence patterns used in classroom dialogs. They use new vocabulary within the sentence patterns.
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Doing Your Best
Students awareness is raised when they reflect on the importance of working hard at home and at school. They develop responsibility and make the most of their abilities. A quote for the week is provided and discussed what it means. ...
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50 Commonly Misspelled Words
In this literacy instructional activity, learners identify the commonly misspelled words and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Fun With -ing Verbs 3- Test Your Vocabulary Skills
In this -ing ending vocabulary skills page, students underline the most appropriate -ing ending word to complete 15 sentences. They choose between two word that end in -ing and make the most sense in the sentence.
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Language Arts: Oh! You Shouldn't Have!
Young scholars, working in pairs or small groups, examine various ways of responding to a gift. They match gift giving and receiving pictures on a worksheet to the correct responses. As an added activity, they role-play as guests at a...
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And & But
In this conjunctions worksheet, students choose the appropriate conjunction, and or but, to complete twelve sentences grammatically correct.
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Self-improvement Spelling List
In this spelling worksheet, students practice self-improvement skills for checking a weekly spelling list for fifteen weeks straight. Students correct each word spelt incorrectly.
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Collocations- Verbs
In this verbs and adverbs worksheet, students analyze 12 adverbs in a word bank. Students use these to fill in the blanks in 12 sentences. This is intended for ESL use.