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Developing Grammar
Students work on grammar with annual events and past tenses respectively. They drill and practice independently and in small groups. Students' extend their linguistic precision when talking about their lives.
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Alien Pen Pals
Young scholars write a friendly letter to an Alien Pen Pal including details about the planet Earth.
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ESL: Intermediate Review Quiz 1
In this ESL worksheet, students will choose the correct word or phrase from a list of three choices to best complete each sentence.
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Final s word Endings
In this final s word endings worksheet, students complete a quiz on how to use the final s to complete the words in sentences. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Diagnostic Intermediate-Part Three Grammar Test
In this grammar testing learning exercise, students complete a 25 question diagnostic test covering a variety of concepts. Students select answers by clicking on a button beside each sentence.
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No, Not, Never Avoiding the Double Negative
In this double negative words worksheet, students correct double negatives within 4 sentences by editing and rewriting the sentences.
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Word Work
For this word work worksheet, students match adjectives with their meanings and fill in the blanks to sentences about wishes. Students complete 21 problems.
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Bag It
Students identify positive and negative ways of dealing with stress. The lesson helps each child recognize how stress affects his or her feelings.
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There's a World of Science to Read Today!
Pupils read a current science article. They write a summary of the article, take notes, write and edit a summary, and print their work.
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Persuasion and Use of Language
Pupils discuss connotative language, hyperbole, allusion, and rhetorical question. In small groups, they read one section of the "Speech to the Virginia Convention" and analyze these devices. Groups present their results to the class.
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Persuasion and Figurative Language
Students study and discuss definitions of metaphor, simile, and personification. In small groups, they read a section of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and identify those devices. The group presents their examples with the class.
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Novel Analysis
Students read the novel, Lord of the Flies, then write an essay analyzing the novel. They analyze, in small groups, characters, plot, setting, style, symbolism, theme, critical responses, and historical influences
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Connecting Characters and Themes in Julius Caesar
Fourth graders prepare for the literary analysis. They locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the theme. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders write topic and detail sentences, then correctly put...
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Intro to Parts of Speech
Pupils define eight parts of speech, classify words as specific parts of speech, describe their function, and explain how parts of speech help us to communicate more clearly.
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BBC Learning English, Speaking (Clarifying Meaning)
In this verbal comprehension worksheet, students identify possible reasons for poor inter-personal communication and learn multiple phrases to use for clarification in a conversation.
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Identifying and Using Parts of Speech in Writing: Technology, Word Processing
Students identify and suggest suitable parts of speech to fill in the blanks in a prepared text (the text can easily be tailored to language ability and desired subject). They use word processing to edit the text.
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Sidewalks to Success in Middle School
Learners write a brochure that educates incoming middle school students on how to succeed.
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Preposition Pizazz
Students examine examples of poems and identify the prepositions in them. They write original poems using prepositional phrases and create illustrations to go with them.
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Memory of a Kiss
Third graders read, discuss, and memorize the poem "Jenny Kissed Me." as an example of lyrical poetry. They write a letter to Jenny reliving the memory of her kiss from an elderly person's point of view. They illustrate their poems.
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Living Biographies
Third graders create a multimedia slide presentation containing facts, graphics, and sounds relating to a biographical figure based on their reading of a biography or an autobiography. They present their slide presentations before the...
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Fragments Wanted (Not)
Young scholars rewrite newspaper employment ads using complete sentences.
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Miss Alaineus Lesson Plan
Students gain an understanding of various literary devices and strengthen their vocabulary. In this Miss Alaineus lesson plan, students read the vocabulary tale, discuss the use of literary devices and choose from 4 possible culminating...
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When/While
In this when and while worksheet, students choose the correct phrase to complete the sentences starting with either when or while. Students complete 10 sentences.
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ESL: Missing Word Mistakes
For this ESL "missing word" worksheet, students add the missing words to sentences in order to complete them correctly, then write 4 sentences of their own.