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Tone and Mood
How are mood and tone similar? Different? Help your readers understand the difference between the two with this helpful guide. On the first page, they read the definition for both tone and mood and identify words that are describe each....
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Sentence Problems
Writing is tough to perfect. Help your class improve their writing skills by studying different sentence problems. This reference guide covers sentence fragments, run-ons, and misplaced modifiers, but that's just to start! There's a...
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Weekly Grammar Test: 30
In this grammar worksheet, students circle verbs in sentences, use verbs in sentences, and write the 2 words that make up contractions in sentences. Students complete 14 problems.
Robin L. Simmons
The Clause
This handy information sheet shows young grammarians how to distinguish among main, subordinate, relative, and noun clauses.
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One-Word Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs
Introduce your students to adjectives, adverbs, and the differences between them with this helpful grammar presentation. Though it appears long at 79 slides, note that each slide is doubled, with the first slide asking a question and the...
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The Family (La Famille)
Here's the teacher guide to a unit on family and family vocabulary. Sift through the ideas (a pre-test, lesson activity, and closing activity are all included), and include them in your own unit. Since visual connections are a great way...
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Compound Sentences
Do your pupils need a little variety in their writing? Help them build compound and complex sentences with sentence frames. They first combine two independent clauses to form a compound sentence, then add a third clause to make a complex...
University of North Carolina
Style
Just like you choose your clothes to ensure they fit the occasion, you should choose your words deliberately while writing. Style, the main topic of one handout in a series on writing skills, involves choosing words carefully and paying...
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Teaching Social Studies in English
Case studies, an examination of images, and readings of passages from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are used to spark conversations in ESL/ELD social studies classes about this highly-charged topic. Using a variety of...
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Guide to Business Process Modelling
Project managers can add another cog in the wheel of understanding. This guide to business process modelling shows how to construct and use a process map to handle major projects. Tip: While the resource is intended for a vocational...
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Using Drama as a Resource for Giving Language More Meaning
Students revise and provide spoken and written practice of modal verbs in the past for criticism.
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Present (Be + -ing)
In this present tense worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss how to change verbs to present tense verbs and decide the correct verb to put into six sentences.
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Grammar Puzzles
Students explore the parts of a sentence through analysis, design, and drawing in this nine lessons unit on Grammar. The diagramming of sentences comprises the main thrust of this unit through the utilization of higher cognitive skill...
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Using Suffixes -er, -or, -ar To Make Nouns
In these grammar worksheets, students will circle nouns and verbs, fill in blanks with suitable verbs, add -er and -or to verbs to create nouns, write silly sentences using nouns that end in -ar, add the correct suffix to change verbs...
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The Verbal Trio - Learning about Verbals
Do you know what a gerund is? Use this grammar learning exercise to help emerging grammarians learn about using different verbs (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 11...
Anchorage School District
Writing Effective Summaries
Drafting a strong first sentence for a summary is an important step. Writers can use the formula presented on this handout to get started. The resource lists three steps to put together a strong topic sentence, as well as tips and hints...
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Rewriting Confusing Sentences
A complete page of explanation precedes a sheet with eight confusing sentences that learners revise for clarity. You could show the first page to your class, or just use it as a guide for direct instruction on the issue of clarifying...
English Banana
Test Your Grammar Skills: Personal and Possessive Pronouns (gap-fill)
Practice personal and possessive pronouns by filling in the blanks. Learners are given information about different types of pronouns and can use that information to fill out the worksheet. Arrows help to clarify what information applies...
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Present Perfect Simple or Past Simple
In this present perfect simple or past simple learning exercise, students decide which tense time clauses are in and then fill in the blanks to sentences with each tense. Students complete 2 activities.
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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography...
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Punctuation
As a short review of punctuation, such as the use of commas and semicolons, this presentation could be helpful in an upper elementary classroom. The series of slides defines each term and provides examples.
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English Exercises: Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, 3rd graders interactively match 6 words with pictures, read a story and answer 28 comprehension questions about the story, with immediate online feedback.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Practice Book: The Boy Who Saved Baseball
An array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...
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Hands Poem
Students create a "Hands" poem for the author/character in a reading selection.They make inferences for reading selection and back up inference by citing specific lines in text. They relate author's or main character's experiences to...
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