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Revising Writing
Junior high writers investigate other student’s sample writing and critique on how it could be improved. Skill emphasis is place on elaboration, voice, and sentence variety. The student writing is provided, but the checklist for revision...
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Pollution Puzzles
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students complete eleven sentences that are clues for completing the puzzle. Each of the sentences tells how pollution occurs and how people can prevent it.
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Worksheet 1
In this math worksheet, students give examples of functions that will satisfy given conditions. Students tell the tabulations for a given function. Students use the definition of a derivative to compute the inverse of a function. they...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words starting with GL
In this vocabulary activity, students select the best choice to complete the sentence. They are challenged with difficult words that contain a gl-blends.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with P
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the choices which all start with the letter "p."
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Learning About Prepositional Phrases
What is a prepositional phrase? Read through the first page of your packet to give your budding grammarians a better sense of what a prepositional phrase is. Then, have them complete the two activities provided. The first asks them to...
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Abstract Nouns
In two similar worksheets contained in this resource, learners circle the abstract noun contained in 13 or 14 sentences. Unfortunately, an example given is "courageous," which is an adjective. This is a resource for home schooling, but...
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Good/Well Practice
In this good and well practice worksheet, students read an informative instructional activity. Students then respond to 15 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in the sentences with "good" or "well."
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Introduce: Summarizing Narrative Text
When scholars re-tell a story, do they boil it down to important details in a logical order? Practice summarizing narratives using this think-aloud strategy, which is scripted here for your convenience. After explaining why this is an...
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Vocabulary 15 Practice Quiz
Focus on some difficult vocabulary words that begin with f, g, and h. First, match the 10 vocabulary words to their definitions, and then decide which sentence each vocabulary word best completes. Example words include furtive,...
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Samuel Pepys
Young writers examine the world of diaries. They study the diary of the famous Samuel Pepy, and discuss why it's so important. Together, as a class, they create a diary that describes what happened in school on a certain day. The catch...
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Conditional Exercise 6
English language learners review the present and past conditional tense. For the 15 sentences provided, they conjugate the verbs in parentheses. The best part is that they can access a hint when they're confused! Simply scroll down, hit...
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Safe and Sound: Rock Concert Dangers
Students read attached articles and others they can find about dangers at rock concerts and also what bands, venue owners and others have done to increase safety. They conduct interviews and write a feature about concert safety in the...
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Routines Matching
Here is an ESL word and picture matching activity. Learners analyze seven pictures that depict morning routines, and match each picture with a phrase that tells what is happening.
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ESL Advanced/Proficiency- Vocabulary Multiple Choice, Worksheet 11
In this advanced proficiency level ESL vocabulary instructional activity, students choose the correct words to complete 10 sentences. They make choices from 4 words that require them to use higher levels of English skills.
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Sea Turtles
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read five sentences telling facts about Sea Turtles, answer questions about what they read and color the picture. Students fill in the blanks of four sentences.
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Infinitive [Adjective] Recognition
In this infinitive adjective worksheet, students read about infinitives and adjectives, then find infinitives acting like adjectives in a set of 10 sentences. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Their vs. There vs. They're Quiz
Do your pupils need extra practice with often-confused words? There are five opportunities on this quiz for your pupils to demonstrate they’re able to tell the difference between these words. They can even put the quiz in their notebooks.
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Easily Confused Words: Lead and Led
Although not quite as confusing as their, they're, and there, many people have difficulty with lead, lead (the toxic metallic), and led. Review these basic sentences with your third and fourth graders, and have them complete the...
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Pronouns
Was it she or her? Pupils must choose the correct pronoun to correctly complete the 29 sentences on this grammar worksheet.
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The King of the Birds vocabulary
Science and language skills come together in The King of the Birds. After reading, discuss the names and types of birds in the story and write given sentences to portray the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives....
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Verb Review 1: Present/Past
Use this worksheet (with four mini-exercises) to sum up skills learned about various verb forms and usage rules. It covers present, present progressive, past simple, and future tenses in regular and irregular verbs. Young grammarians...
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Here's an Instant Activity for September 19, 2005
Young writers study similes and then complete a writing activity for similes. They complete a teacher-led activity for similes and then work independently to write sentences using the given similes. A solid lesson!
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Reading Response Journal Lit Logs
Here is a worksheet presenting many ways to create topics and start sentences. The writing prompts are best used for young writers who are creating reading response journals or literature logs. Sometimes, all a writer needs is a good...