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Preposition Practice

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils learn about prepositions. In this grammar lesson, students define prepositions and learn how they work. Pupils study a list of common prepositions and locate them in sentences.
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First Class Mail

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and write a friendly letter to Elizabeth George Speare, the author, discussing their points of interest in the novel with her.
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Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this adverbs worksheet, students answer short answer questions about adverbs and identify parts of speech in sentences. Students complete 22 problems.
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Rules for Using Commas

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this comma usage worksheet, learners review when to use commas and then add commas, as needed, to twenty different sentences.
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Punctuation Takes a Vacation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review punctuation marks and their functions. They read a story, "Punctuation Takes a Vacation." Given flash cards of punctuation marks, students hold up the appropriate punctuation flash card during the story.
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Cause/Effect

For Students 7th - 10th
In this cause and effect worksheet, students learn about 6 different ways to express cause and effect: adverb clause, preposition + noun phrase, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, special expression and reduced adverb clause.
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What are Nouns?

For Students 5th
In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders focus on nouns.  Students take the online test by reading each of the given sentences and clicking on the noun in each.
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Forget Fragments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and correct fragments in writings. Students perform activities to write incorrect and correct fragments. They create puzzle pieces from fragments. Students participate in fragment activities.
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Roll Out the Run-ons

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners participate in activities in order to investigate the concept of run-on sentences. They identify a complete sentence and the correct characteristics that it possesses.
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HOLES UNIT

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students participate in the unit based on the Newbery Medal-winning novel by Louis Sachar and the Walt Disney Movie "Holes". They use the layered curriculum model of assessment and activities.
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Nouns as Subjects Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss how nouns are known as the subjects of a sentence and then practices underlining the subjects in fifteen sentences.
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Pronoun Case Worksheet 2

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read and underline the subjects in fifteen sentences. Students write their answers on the lines provided.
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Identifying Subjects

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the subjects found in fifteen sentences and then write that same subject on the line provided.
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Nouns and Verbs 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this nouns and verbs review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify all of the nouns and verbs in 20 sentences. Students also respond to 2 short answer questions.
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The Hundred Penny Box

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compare how people save money in financial institutions, after reading the story, The Hundred Penny Box. They analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding.
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Brazilian Guilty of Murdering American Nun

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about a nun's murder in Brazil. They assess key vocabulary terms found within the article, answer a variety of comprehension questions and study how to write a letter to a newspaper.
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Effective Writing Prompts: Getting Beyond the Dark and Stormy Night

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Help struggling writers with strategies to reach different learning styles and reduce anxiety.
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The Verb and Adverb Connection

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.
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Parts! Parts! Who Has the Matching Part?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the subject part of a sentence. They receive randomly distributed teacher-made sentence parts. They have either a subject part of a sentence or the remainder of the sentence.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experience what life was like during era in which "Sarah, Plain and Tall depicts using modern technology.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level4-Safety and Security

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine a variety of countries specific procedures for identifying and reporting crimes. They review a lengthy list of vocabulary terms to assist them in their research.
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Understanding Simple and Complete Predicates

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students study simple and complete predicates. They explore the simple and complete predicates in a variety of sentences. Students identify both simple and complete predicates. They use simple and complete predicates correctly in their...
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Top Ten Facts

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students, in pairs, complete research about an assigned person. One student does research in the library and the other on the Internet. They come back together, compare their research, and compile a list of 10 main facts about their person.
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Tree House Escape

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use simple machines to escape from a tree house. Pupils learn about simple machines and how they are useful in everyday life in a STEM lesson plan. Groups then design a device to rescue a friend stuck in a tree house.