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Modifying Words
For this grammar worksheet, students read a piece of text and practice modifying fourteen words to grammatically complete the paragraphs correctly.
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Happiness and Well-Being
Students explore happiness and well-being. In this personal health lesson, students determine whether governments can or should cultivate happiness as they participate in a discussion activity.
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Language Arts: Revision and Peer Editing
Students are able to evaluate their peers' essays to determine clarity, completeness, and persuasiveness. They are able to revise their own essays for greater clarity and fluency, adding explanation where needed and cutting extraneous...
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A Balanced Diet
Students determine which healthy foods comprise a well balanced meal. Using a checklist, students classify foods as healthy or unhealthy. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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Vocabulary Practice: Which Word Doesn’t Belong?
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students examine 12 sets of 4 words each. Students determine which words do not belong in the sets with the others that share similar meanings.
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Advice, Encouragement, Discouragement
Students create a fitness schedule for a famous person. In this advice, encourage, discourage lesson, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person. Students relate this activity to that of giving advice,...
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Have Got
In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students determine if the sentence should be written using has or have. Students also watch a video and fill in interactive blanks (drop downs). There are 40 questions to submit to the website.
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Gerunds and Infinitives
In this grammar worksheet, students master the usage of gerunds and infinitives. Students complete 10 fill in the blank statements and use the self check when completed.
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Words In The News--Chissano Wins Prize For Good African Leadership
Learners read, discuss and derive vocabulary words from current events. After discussing the rigors of competition and personal experiences, students read about a prize for good African leadership. In groups, they research other...
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Sentence Fragments, Run-ons, and Combining Sentences
In this set of grammar worksheets, students identify sentence fragments, revise run-on sentences and fragments, and combine sentences by inserting words and phrases.
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Articles: "A (or An)" and "The"
Students work in partners to write grammatically correct sentences that illustrate the use of English articles. They are introduced to the rules of article usage in English and then write and act out question and answer dialogues.
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Words In The News
High schoolers brainstorm through playing a guessing game to determine the person they will be researching is Fidel castro. They review his background then hear a radio presentation from Castro then answer and discuss a given set of...
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Dependent or Subordinate Adverb Clauses
For this grammar worksheet, students recognize a dependent or subordinate adverb clause. Students look at ten sentences and determine what the dependent or subordinate adverb clause is, and what word in the independent clause it modifies.
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Adverbs
In this adverbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by correctly choosing the correct form of the adverbs. Students complete 12 sentences.
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A, An, The
In this a, an, and the worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences about a restaurant review with the words a, an or the. Students fill in 33 blanks.
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Infinitives: Diagnostic Quiz
In this infinitives diagnostic quiz worksheet, students complete a total of 25 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct answers from drop down lists. Quiz is divided into beginning-intermediate and intermediate-advanced.
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Noncombatancy and the Seventh day Adventist Church
Upper graders investigate how the Seventh Day Adventists are objectors to the practice of war. The lesson covers the Civil War and examines the church's position about the practice of war. The research extends to modern wars and learners...
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Sentence-Combining in Grade Eight
Eighth graders examine and discuss signaled sentence-combining. They read sentences and then combine them. They revise paragraphs from their own compositions using sentence-combining.
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Punctuating Dialogue
Sixth graders use narrative strategies (e.g., dialogue and action) to develop characters, plot and setting and maintain a consistent point of view. They create and accurately punctuate dialogue necessary to help the plot progress,...