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Celebrate Commencement with Class Presentations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Bring the year to a satisfying close by asking class members to reflect on the year in personalized graduation speeches.
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Reading: A Speech by Helen Keller

For Students 5th - 6th
For this Helen Keller worksheet, students read a speech that was delivered by Helen Keller in 1925. Students answer 8 true and false comprehension questions.
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The Learning Network: Fill In 2011 Commencement Speeches

For Students 7th - 12th
Meant to be used with the article "Words of Wisdom" also available on the New York Times website, this resource contains a fill in the blank exercise where learners complete the article by supplying missing words. Use words from the word...
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Life Lessons

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze various inspirational statements from graduation commencement speeches, and then write their own speeches that reflect lessons to help students succeed in the next stage of life.
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Identify the Underlined Part of Speech

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar instructional activity, learners identify the underlined part of speech in twenty sentences. Students check their answers when done.
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EngageNY

Getting the Gist: Steve Jobs Commencement Address (Focus on Paragraphs 6-8, and connecting to Chapter 6)

For Teachers 6th Standards
As part of a unit study of Bud, Not Buddy, readers compare Buddy's list of rules to live by with those that Steve Jobs enumerates in his commencement address to Stanford's 2005 graduating class.
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Completing Sentences

For Students 4th - 8th
In this parts of speech learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to sentences with different parts of speech. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Articles and Article Check-Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your learners practice proper article usage with this informational handout and brief exercise. After reading information about articles and their uses, including details about when to omit articles, scholars complete fourteen...
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Go Forth and Change the World

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concept of commencement speeches and how they are used to influence the world. They read a variety of speeches and identify the benefits for others. The lesson plan includes web...
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Reading Comprehension: Your is Our Hope

For Students 4th - 6th
For this comprehension worksheet, students read an excerpt from a graduation speech, the complete 11 questions, choose the correct completion word for sentences.
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Reported Questions

For Students 7th - 8th
In this reported questions worksheet, students create reported speech from a given question. Students complete twenty sentences.
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Helping Verbs

For Students 5th - 6th
In this grammar learning exercise, students choose the correct helping verb to complete each sentence and write it on the line. The objective is to enhance students' grammar skills.
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Gerunds and Infinitives

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Delve into the world of gerunds and infinitives with this detailed powerpoint. Each slide provides examples and corresponding images. Stopping throughout the presentation would allow for guided and individual practice. This could also be...
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Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS)

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
For, and, nor... Spend some time getting coordinating conjunctions just right with your class. Included here are three exercises to practice using these seven connecting words correctly; each learning exercise includes a fun image and...
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Time Words/Tenses Review

For Students 4th - 6th
Each of the 42 sentences in this worksheet have mistakes in the verb tense or time word. Grammarians search for the verb mistake in each one and write the correct verb tense right above the wrong one on the worksheet. Good practice!
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ASL Lesson 18

For Teachers 2nd - Higher Ed
Have a discussion, review nouns, and practice speaking using ASL. Lesson 18 of 30+ extensive lessons on using American Sign Language covers classifiers, coded English, and asking questions. Each link embedded in the lesson provides a...
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Subject Pronouns

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
What or who can subject pronouns stand for? Ask your learners to determine the correct subject pronoun for 25 sentences. Learners are given the subjects and choose the pronouns from a chart of options.
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The Verb

For Students 6th - 8th
How are linking verbs and action verbs different? First, study the definitions and examples of each (at the top of the first page). Then, assess the comprehension skills of your class by having them complete the 20-question practice...
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Simple Future Tense: Exercise 5

For Students 6th - 8th
Here’s a practice set for the simple future tense and the present tense with an adverb form. No answer key is provided, but a brief explanation of these tense forms does precede each exercise set. This resource could be used as a pretest...
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San José State University

Prepositions of Time

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
On, at, in, since, for, during, within... what do all of these words have in common? They are prepositions and they are all prepositions that are included on this hand-out. This handout breaks down prepositions used when talking about...
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April Fool’s Day Vocabulary Lesson

For Students 8th - 12th
Quandimonium will ensue when the class discovers you will be grading this April Fool's Day vocabulary activity, complete with made-up words and definitions, although the truly perspicacious will remain axomachilliax.
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Student Loans

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students read three paragraphs and choose the word that shouldn't be in each one and write that word on the lines provided. Students place a tick on the lines with no mistakes.
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Prepositions

For Students 6th - 7th
In this grammar activity, students read four paragraphs and draw circles around the correct prepositions in each set of parenthesis.
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Subject-verb Agreement 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb in parentheses in twenty-five sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.