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Renewable Energy Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars construct sentences using nouns and verbs from a "renewable energy" word bank. In this cross curriculum ecology and sentence structure grammar and mechanics lesson, students listen to the book Our Earth: Clean Energy by...
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Color the St. Patrick’s Day Adjectives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Who needs luck when you've got grammar skills? Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in language arts class with a fun coloring activity that prompts young readers to color all adjective sections green.
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Color the Halloween Adjectives

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Halloween is a great time to review some dark, spooky, and fun describing words! A holiday scene containing a black cat, grinning jack-o-lantern, and foggy sky comes forth when class members color the sections with adjectives yellow.
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Describe That State

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students broaden knowledge about all the 50 states. They combine their knowledge about states with their knowledge about parts of speech to create grammatically correct sentences that describe the characteristics of the states.
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Missing Nouns

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Scholars use nouns from a word bank to complete sentences in a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that tells a tale about the California Gold Rush. 
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One Grain of Rice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders read the story One Grain of Rice, and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast topics found in the story to current event topics today. Groups of three learners work together to create their diagram. The topics they must...
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Things That Make Britain Great

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Take a trip to Great Britain with this fun reading lesson! Young learners read an article about many famous attributes of Britain - 101 of them, to be exact - and finish several comprehension and grammar activities about what they have...
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Christmas Tree Add an Adjective

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
The star on the top of a Christmas tree can be beautiful, or it can be gold, or it can be shiny—or, in fact, it can be all three! A picture of a decorated Christmas tree encourages pupils to choose from a list of 18 adjectives to...
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Business Christmas Cards Do's and Don'ts

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students write the correct or negative imperatives in forty sentences depending on whether they think they are things they should or should not do.
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Spring is in the Air: Yes/No Questions

For Students 2nd - 4th
By writing 5 sentences about spring, students practice creating yes and no questions. The prompts for the questions are difficult to follow. A teacher would have to give students explicit directions.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Prepositions of Place

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar activity, learners will look at a map of Derby, UK (a link is provided). Then students will select the best preposition of place to complete 10 sentences about landmarks in Derby.
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Pan de los Muertos

For Teachers 6th Standards
Accompany instruction and the celebration of El Dia de los Muertos with a loaf of Pan de los Muertos. Here, scholars measure ingredients precisely to create tasty bread, write a remembrance for someone who has...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Prepositions of Place

For Students 6th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, students look at a map of a city and re-write sentences after choosing the correct preposition of place that is provided.
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Thanksgiving Verb and Noun Exercise

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Thanksgiving grammar worksheet, students read 10 sentences and underline the verbs and nouns in the sentences. The worksheet has a Thanksgiving theme.
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Breaking News English: World's Tallest Man Marries

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English activity, students read "World's Tallest Man Marries," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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T'was the Night Before Christmas (Poem)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students read the poem T'was the Night Before Christmas, and then partner with another student to complete a poem of their own based on the original. The new poem has missing words and students fill in the missing parts of speech like a...
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Halloween More Than One

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Halloween activity worksheet, students study the Halloween images in each box and then circle the correct plural form for each noun. Students complete 6 plural noun examples.
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Geography Words

For Students 2nd - 4th
This instructional activity uses maps of South America and Canada to combine basic geography vocabulary and using prepositions. Students use the maps to answer questions about the locations of various countries on the two maps. This...
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Advertising Adjectives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create advertisements using comparative adjectives. In this grammar lesson, students brainstorm various products for which they would like to create an advertising campaign. Students use comparative adjectives in their marketing...
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Words In The News

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A complete resource from BBC World Service provides informational text for English or ESL classes to teach vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills. Learners participate in small group work, whole class discussions, and role-plays to...
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How British is your Financial English?

For Students 7th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the English word they use most often to describe fifteen English terms and fifteen multiple choice questions.
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Primary vs. Secondary Sources Notes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What’s the difference between primary and secondary source materials? Here’s a handout, designed as a reference for learners, that does a good job of distinguishing between primary and secondary source materials and providing examples of...
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Thanksgiving Day Activities Stative Verb Review

For Students 5th - 7th
In this Thanksgiving verb review worksheet, students mark an X on the incorrect forms of the verbs. They write the correct form above each incorrect verb. There are 10 questions on this page.
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Sightseeing in New York City

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students practice locating tourist attractions in New York City, and ask for location and directions in their own hometown.