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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quiz

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Quiz

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Reading and Activity Suggestions for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars learn about characterization techniques in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  In this Adventures of Tom Sawyerlesson, students write a description of one character through the eyes of another character and identify scenes...
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How to Move the Crowd: The Persuasive, Powerful Rhetoric of Mark Antony -Folger Shakespeare Library

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore a close reading of the speeches of Brutus and Mark Anthony in 3.2. They identify the effects of the rhetorical appeals used. Students explore the variety of ways in which Anthony might have delivered the speech....
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Explore, Analyze and Imagine: The Importance of Body Language

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners develop characters and role-play. In this character portrayal lesson, students analyze the importance of body language, develop a character to portray and interview another learners character.
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End Mark Dominoes

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this punctuation worksheet, students match sentences and ending marks together to make complete sentences. There is a worksheet provided in order to play this game.
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Mark´s Family

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this family members worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions about labeling family members, complete a word search and filing in the blanks to sentences. Students complete 3 activities.
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Mark Twain Award Nominees 2004-05

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine books nominated for the Mark Twain Award. They visit various authors' Web sites and read stories, explore the authors, and perform related activities.
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Total English Intermediate: Getting the Question Right

For Students 7th - 10th
In this subject and object questions worksheet, students correct the mistakes in 8 sentences and then write 8 complete subject/object questions in the second person.
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During Reading Strategies (Prediction, Self-Question, and Correct)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice their reading skills. For this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to predict, self-question, and correct.
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Verb "Be", Write Questions, Word Order, Dialogue

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this verb tense, questioning, word order, dialogue worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the proper verb, write questions for the given answers, put word into the correct order, and complete dialogue using the present tense of...
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What Did You Say?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Work on punctuation such as placing quotation marks around direct quotes, and inserting commas to set off a quotation. The lesson includes a printable activity sheet and additional practice sentences.
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Bookworm's Delight Challenge

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this books learning exercise, students answer multiple choice questions about popular children's books. Students complete 10 questions.
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Annotating Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Use text marking and highlighting to explore the structure of a poem. After listening to Allan Ahlberg read "Please Mrs. Butler," learners locate stanzas and patterns on their copy of the poem using the text marking technique. Class...
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The Second Half of the Play

For Students 10th
Just as the title says, this quiz covers the second half of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, specifically Acts IV and V. Multiple-choice questions focus on the events and characters.
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To Quote or Not to Quote

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Introduce your middle and high schoolers to the correct use of quotation marks. They identify examples of correct and incorrect quotations in magazines and edit a paragraph in groups. Use this lesson as a way to reinforce proofreading...
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Pride And Prejudice: Anticipation Guide

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this anticipation guide worksheet, students thoughtfully mark statements according to whether they disagree (D) or agree (A). Students will mark the same 7 statements before and after they read Pride and Prejudice.
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Punctuation Exercise

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Are you looking for a way to practice tricky punctuation? Use this worksheet as a homework assignment or warm-up activity. Young grammarians are given 20 sentences to punctuate using semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, or...
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Lord of the Flies--Chapter 2

For Students 10th - 12th
For this literature analysis worksheet, pupils read Chapter two of Lord of the Flies and then answer reading comprehension questions.
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ELA - Literacy.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Do your pupils know what a primary source is? How about a secondary source? Provide them with the information here about different types of documents and then test their knowledge with a brief quiz. The quiz is made up of two documents....
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Detective Game

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this book report learning exercise, students answer questions about a book report asked in detective language. Students complete 5 questions.
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Ask the Author

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Here is a quick activity that could help your kids with their reading comprehension. They practice a classic strategy that gets them to start asking questions about what they are reading, while they are reading it. They write out...
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Problematic Situation: the Outsiders

For Students 7th - 10th
In this The Outsiders problematic situation worksheet, students read a scenario pertaining to a gang member's death. Students then mark whether they agree of disagree with 12 statements.
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Peer and Self-evaluation in Spoken Tests: Tools and Methods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers, in groups, each take a different role and are to either ask or answer questions. They explore how to effectively evaluate themselves and others.