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Conditionals Exercise
In this conditionals instructional activity, students choose the correct word, correct the verbs, and complete sentences. Students complete 3 activities.
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Friends in the Community
Second graders build a classroom community by getting to know each other better. They ask classmates various questions and use graphic organizer software and Microsoft PowerPoint. Students practice their oral language skills while asking...
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Sonnets
Students examine the structure of sonnets. They compare and contrast them with modern day poetry. They write their own sonnet after changing the language in another sonnet to see why the author choosed certain words.
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Revise for Parallel Structure
In this parallel structure learning exercise, students revise a set of 20 sentences for parallel structure. Page has links to additional resources.
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Eliminate Fragments and Run-ons
Fix fragments and run-ons. Kids practice editing a piece of their own writing, read, and take notes of common examples. They practice connecting independent clauses and then use the information to edit previously written pieces. Note:...
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Transitions
Transitions are the focus of a presentation that includes information about the importance of transitions and types of transitions. Included is a list of commonly used transition words.
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Double Jeopardy-Homophones
Second graders identify homophones as words that sound alike but have different meanings. They, given a pair of homophones, are to explain the meanings of the words using gestures, role playing, or drawing a picture with their partner.
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Proofreading: Lesson 2
Identify and develop strategies for proofreading with your class. They read and identify the grammar rules for capitalization, end punctuation, and commas, correct errors as a class, and complete three worksheets. This resource includes...
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Reading and Responding: Lesson 9
Follow this lesson, which is written more like a script, to practice reading a poem with your class. Pupils read "The Road Not Taken" and respond to five multiple choice questions on a provided worksheet. The plan leads you through a...
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Antonyms, synonyms and homophones
Shed light on what antonyms, synonyms, and homophones are. In this lesson, upper elementary schoolers create pairs using an antonym, a homophone, and/or a synonym. Then they play an antonym matching game.
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Halloween Tales
At the beginning of this Halloween lesson, learners generate a list of spooky characters and words that they will use when creating their original stories. Teams of 3-4 members create the stories together. The lesson includes a handy...
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Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day instructional...
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Worksheet 6 Vocabulary Review: Possessives
In this synonyms worksheet, students read ten sentences and analyze the word in bold type. From three choices, students select the word that means the same as the word in bold.
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Verb Tenses
In this grammar learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with a form of the verb in parenthesis. They can use any appropriate verb tense. There are 14 blanks to fill in.
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Learning the Printing Trade
Students explore U.S. History by reading biographical text in class. In this Benjamin Franklin instructional activity, students read about the famous American's first job and the transition he underwent from printing to politics....
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Clauses: The Trilogy
In this three types of clauses worksheet, students read sentences with highlighted clauses and identify them as noun, adverb, or adjective clauses. Students fill in the blanks in ten sentences.
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Spelling Connections Grade 2
In this spelling worksheet, students read ten sentences with a scrambled word in bold type within them. Students unscramble the word so it would make sense within the sentence. All words have the "or" spelling pattern.
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Said/Told
In this interactive grammar worksheet, 2nd graders type "said" or "told" to complete each of the ten given sentences.
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Galaxy 4 Unit 2
In this clothes online interactive worksheet, students listen to a tape and write out the 6 different types of clothing they hear. Students view 8 pictures of figures wearing different types of clothing and then fill in...
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"To Be" Worksheet
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students type in the correct form of the verb "to be" in the 12 sentences. There is also a word search activity to complete.
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Present Simple Tense
In this interactive grammar activity, students type in the correct present simple verb tense for each of the given 42 sentences.
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Past Simple Tense
In this interactive grammar instructional activity, students complete each of the ten sentences by typing in the correct past simple tense of the verb.
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Passive Voice
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students type the 22 sentences and put them into the passive voice.
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Movie Genres
In this grammar worksheet, students match twelve movie genres with their appropriate definitions and examples from two answer banks and then translate the titles into Chinese. Students answer six questions regarding personal movie...