Students create a poster.  In this vocabulary lesson, students use vocabulary words such as squeak, creak, squeal, squawk and quack to identify the sounds and noises of each word.  Students come up with rhyming words and create...

First graders identify contractions.  For this grammar and writing lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk, read a book about the ocean and locate contractions throughout the story.

In this double consonant worksheet, students identify as many as words as they can that function with single and double consonants in the middle, such as "diner," and "dinner." 

Students explore symbols by identifying public signage. In this public safety lesson, students view flashcards of everyday road, fire and food signs while discussing their function and purpose. Students record and identify road and...

In this modal verbs learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct modal verb and choose its function. Students complete 8 problems total.

Use this spelling PowerPoint engages students in a spelling practice game. Students will be presented with an unfinished sentence, they will be required to choose the correctly spelled word that best fills in the blank. This would be a...

This PowerPoint features information about adverb and adjective clauses. Several examples of sentences that include adjective clauses are provided along with explanations of their functions in the sentences. Some slides contain practice...

Students examine the specific form and function of tall tales and toasts. They discover the importance of performance in the telling of a story and the importance of rhythm in the telling of toasts. They create stories of their own, in...

Students discuss reasons to use reference materials, identify correct reference material to use for specific information, find answers to specific questions by locating information in encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, almanac, glossary,...

Young scholars identify and analyze that Global Interdependence and Internationalism have become major themes in human activity in the areas of population, environment, the world economy, and the United Nations. Students identify the...

Students write a blurb for different audiences. Students encounter different forms and functions of the use of blurbs. Students write an original blurb to share with the class.

Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They transform a text from future to past tense. Students read a story and discover it is written in past tense. In groups, students rewrite the verbs in the text to...

Students listen to a verbal explanation of the function of deductive reasoning and problem solving. They read one of Donald Sobol's 'Two-Minute Mysteries' and complete a worksheet requiring them to write out the information which is...

Third graders identify the function of adverbs and use them in sentences. They discuss how adverbs answer when, how, how often, and where, and identify the nouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs in sentences. Students then act...

Twelfth graders compare and contrast advertising styles and motives from 1920 to present. Using internet research and print advertisements students make comparisons and inferences about the function of marketing. At the culmination of...

In this nouns as adjectives worksheet, students read and analyze 7 sentences in which a noun functions as an adjective. Students underline the adjective in each sentence that is often a noun.

For this phonics worksheet, 1st graders draw a continuous line sequencing the alphabet from A to Z and write the letters along the way to complete the maze.

In this phonics activity, 2nd graders draw a continuous line connecting letters to form words of actions represented in the pictures to complete the maze. Then, they write all of the words at the end on the lines provided.

In this alphabet and phonics worksheet, students draw a continuous line following the alphabet from the letters A to Z avoiding obstacles that lead to dead ends and write the letters of the alphabet to complete the maze.

Students search into a variety of story elements in the eight lessons of this unit. The title, author, illustrator, setting, main character, problem, solution, events and the story are the components of the lessons.

In this ESL questions and answers instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students write a statement that answers the question, "What are they doing?"

Middle schoolers explore different types of doors from an artistic point of view. In this creative thinking lesson, students look at different types of architectural doors and doorways and analyze them. They create a project of a door as...

A reading of Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County not only offers pupils an opportunity to practice their listening skills but also provides them with examples of dialectic speech. This is the gol’derndest lesson...

Such a creative game idea, this activity might actually make grammar fun! Learners play a modified game of connect-four by identifying the grammatical name for different words and phrases and then working them into simple sentences to...