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English in Mind Unit 1: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this grammar practice worksheet, young scholars practice using a or an, write words into number and numbers into words, and select the correct word to complete a sentence. Students answer thirty three short answer and multiple choice...
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English in Mind Unit 2: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, young scholars practice using apostrophes, put words in the correct order, identify whether a sentence is right or wrong, and select the correct form of the to be verb. Students answer thirty three short answer...
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English in Mind Unit 10: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students create sentences in the negative form, complete questions with do or does, write answers to given questions, and rearrange words to make a sentence. Students answer thirty fill in the blank and short...
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English in Mind Unit 11: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this grammar practice worksheet, students match questions with their answers, create questions, make positive sentences negative, and put sentences in the present continuous tense. There are twenty nine fill in the blank and short...
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English in Mind Unit 13: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, pupils write questions from a statement, practice using was and were, and put words in the correct order to form a question. Students answer twenty seven short answer and multiple choice questions.
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English in Mind Unit 15: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this grammar practice worksheet, students match infinitives with their past form, complete sentences with adverbs, and chose the correct verb to put in a sentence. Twenty nine fill in the blank questions are asked.
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English in Mind Unit 16: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students write sentences from given words, determine the comparative forms of adjectives, and practice adjectives endings. Thirty two fill in the blank and short answer questions are asked.
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Poetry in Music

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders look at poetry in music. In this language arts lesson, 6th graders listen to and read the lyrics of songs to find the poetic aspects of them. They focus on similes and metaphors and write their own songs lyrics.
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I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners locate the literary devices used in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. In this figurative language lesson plan, students first distinguish between similes, metaphors, analogies, personification, etc. Learners...
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Awesome Animals

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write descriptive narratives about animals. In this descriptive writing lesson, the teacher models how to write a paragraph with interesting sensory words and exciting verbs. Students choose a picture of an animal they want...
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Make a Word: Long U by Starfall

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore language arts by participating an on-line grammar activity. In this letter U lesson, students discuss the uses for the letter U in the English language and the different sounds that can be made from the vowel. Students...
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Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify metaphors.  In this figurative language lesson, students learn about metaphors and listen to various examples.  Students read a story and identify the metaphors present.  Students complete a worksheet...
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Conjunctions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the role of conjunctions in the English language. They discuss how conjunctions are used, observe a teacher demonstration, and complete various worksheets related to conjunctions.
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Identifying Synonyms

For Teachers 2nd Standards
"Let the hunt begin!" As an introduction to synonyms, second graders generate a list of word pairs that have similar meanings. The words pairs are written on sentence strips, cut apart, shuffled, and distributed to class members who must...
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Writing to Inform: Colonial Trades

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders who are studying life in colonial America engage in an instructional activity that has them create a "Help Wanted" ad that would have been written by a master craftsperson from back in the day. They utilize a graphic...
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Researching and Note-Taking: Building Expertise about a Colonial Trade

For Teachers 4th Standards
Building on the previous activity in this unit on colonial trade, the ninth activity has young experts continuing their research and writing summaries of the information they find. To begin, children participate in guided practice where...
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Getting the Gist and Determining Word Meaning: Paragraphs 12–14 of Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address (and connecting to Chapter 8)

For Teachers 6th Standards
Groups use a Venn diagram to compare the theme of love and loss in Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address to Stanford University students and Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy.
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Grade 12 ELA Module 1: Unit 1, Lesson 20

For Teachers 12th Standards
The March on Washington takes center stage in the discussion of chapter 15 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; however, class members are presented with an entirely different view of the march from the ones they have previously studied....
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Peer Critique: Historical Accuracy of Ideas and Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th Standards
Promote collaboration in the classroom with a historical fiction instructional activity. Fourth graders partner up and read the other's narrative to give feedback on vocabulary choice and the accuracy of historical information. After...
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Grade 9 ELA Module 1: Unit 3, Lesson 12

For Teachers 9th Standards
Marc Chagall's painting Romeo and Juliet and Baz Lurhmann's film of the same scene in Romeo + Juliet allow class members to analyze how artists consider the same subject in different media.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 5

For Teachers 9th Standards
After rereading the full text of Walter Mosley's essay "True Crime," groups complete an evidence collection tool worksheet, and then class members independently draft a multi-paragraph, evidence-based response that identifies how Mosley...
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A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Paul Langan's novel The Bully is the core text in a six-session unit plan that engages high schoolers in an in-depth examination of bullying and its effects on bullies, victims, and bystanders. The richly textured and carefully...
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"I" Witness to History

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young journalists write diary entries from the point of view of a person involved in a historical event. They focus on including facts, clear narration, and accurate description of the individual's feelings. 
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Using Poetry As Inspiration for Composition

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
A reading of Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" launches an interdisciplinary study of the connection between the meters of a poem and a melody. After identifying the number of beats in each line of the poem, young musicians use...

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