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ESL Grammar: Forms of Be

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these English Language be forms worksheets, students complete several pages of activities that help them learn to use the forms of Be: is, am, and are.
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Teaching the Written Word to Those Whose Words are Limited

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Get your learners' pens moving by emptying their thoughts onto the page.
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Grammar

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use a word processor document to refine and practice their grammar. They focus on subject and verb agreement and/or run-on sentences. The document can be used as assessment.
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Regions of the United States

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars create a travelogue of a particular U.S geographic region that includes aspects of population, climate, landforms, culture, famous people, and places as well as any natural resources. They present the travelogue to the class.
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Letter Writing Basics

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write a business letter with information regarding specific writing mechanics. In this writing lesson plan, students learn to write a business letter and they focus on one area of concern. Students follow a business letter...
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Baseball Challenge!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This grammar PowerPoint allows students to review the concept of sentence structure in a baseball game format. The slides contain multiple choice questions based on the subject and predicate of sentences. As each students correctly...
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Beginning With Writing; Convey Ideas in Writing

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Walk young writers through the process of creating an initial writing sample for their portfolio. They determine their purpose, organize their ideas, and then create a draft. The lesson includes worksheets and online resources to...
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Better English Lessons: Wishes

For Students 6th - 10th
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences. Answers are scored immediately.
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Repairing Sentence Fragments

For Students 7th - 9th
For this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 2 short answer questions regarding sentence fragments. Students may submit their answers to be scored
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We're Going to the Zoo!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write and publish a poem as part of a class poetry collection after analyzing the poetic structures of haiku, limericks, sound poems and free verse. After viewing a multimedia demonstration of the poetic structures, and...
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Women's History Month--Susan B. Anthony Question Review

For Students 3rd - 5th
This writing activity instructs students to read a short paragraph about Susan B. Anthony, then write 5 questions to 5 answers. This activity would be quite useful when teaching students about sentence structure, and different types of...
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Use Parts of Speech to Improve Sentence Beginnings

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students demonstrate the parts of speech in sentences. In this grammar instructional activity, students highlight and identify the parts of speech in sentences.
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Adjective Clauses in Object Position

For Students 7th - 10th
In this adjective clause worksheet learners are given two sentences they must combine using adjective clauses. Students are able to get a hint and check their answers in this interactive worksheet.
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Repairing Run-On Sentences

For Students 6th - 7th
For this run-on sentences worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise. Students read a sentence and indicate the correct way to write it without it being a run-on sentence.
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Review of Yes/No Questions

For Students 5th - 8th
This writing worksheet instructs students to read a short paragraph about a scientific discovery, then write 5 questions to 5 answers. This worksheet would be quite useful when teaching students about sentence structure, and different...
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Exploring Facets of life in the 1930s presented in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders research various aspects of The Great Depression. They select a topic related to this information. Students gather five sources on their topic and select the most important information. They present information using a...
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Comparison and Contrast - Two Short Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students choose two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. They then write a paper comparing and contrasting the two short stories that Edgar Allan Poe wrote using appropriate conventions.
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Pet Guess Who

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Est-ce que ton animal grand ou petit? Pair up your beginning French speakers for a game of Pet Guess Who! Using pet advertisements from newspapers or the Internet, pairs try to guess what kind of animal their partner has. Also, use the...
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Creating Personalized Stationery

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students write, format, enter, save, revise, edit a full block style letter with open punctuation for printing. They produce a personalized letterhead using a computer and access information from the Internet using a variety of search...
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Paul Revere's Ride

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read and discuss the selection "Paul Revere's Ride" (included with the lesson). Students imagine they live in one of the villages that Paul Revere stopped. They are awakened by his knock on the door. Students write an essay...
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Reading Comprehension: Context Clues

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use context clues to help them understand unknown words. In this context clues instructional activity, 5th graders practice identifying context clues on a worksheet, then work with a peer to write their own story. Stories...
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Reading a Newspaper

For Teachers 9th
Students define the terms associated with parts of a newspaper. They identify various sections of a newspaper and the type of articles found in each and provide the responses to who? what? when? where? and why? contained in a ...
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WRITE A STORY

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compose two or more simple sentences in response to a picture. They construct sentences and produce captions with 3 or more sentences that extend the subject/verb pattern. They demonstrate age appropriate correct use of...
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Millennium Superheroes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners develop an understanding of the qualities that "superheroes," or people who have favorably influenced society, possess. They create a database with questions that pertain to what they want to find out about a hero of the...