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So What's New?
Students write a story telling the news to someone who has not been around for three years.
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Rain and Our Environment
First graders understand the importance of rain in our environment by writing a sentence about something in existence that would cease to be without rain. They use describing words to describe the living thing's color and draw and color...
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Storytelling
Learners explore, as a basis for their poem, their own personal observations and understandings of a specific person's character which might include exploits, actions, mannerisms and personality. They write a brief poem that tells a story.
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Good E-mail Manners
Students discuss online e-mail safety and etiquette rules and how they should apply the same rules in cyberspace as they use when encountering strangers in the face-to-face world. They participate in mock situations and tell what the...
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Homophones
In this homophones worksheet, students read each sentence and determine which homophone correctly completes each sentence. Students choose from our/are and there/their/they're. Students also write a paragraph using the homophones.
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Parts of Speech
Fifth graders examine the use of parts of speech. For this parts of speech lesson, 5th graders review the parts of speech in a teacher led activity that uses a song (not included). They color code the give parts of speech on a worksheet...
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Dependent or Subordinate Adverb Clauses
In this grammar worksheet, learners recognize a dependent or subordinate adverb clause. Students look at ten sentences and determine what the dependent or subordinate adverb clause is, and what word in the independent clause it modifies.
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Writing Lesson 13
Fourth graders practice responding to a writing prompt and practice proofreading. They write three paragraphs explaining good classroom rules and tell why each of three rules is a good one. Each paragraph should have at least three...
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Wanted: Only the Facts!
Students apply three steps to summarizing successfully (delete trivial and redundant material, replace superordinate terms with a list or action term, and invent a topic sentence.) Through guided practice, they follow these rules in...
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Loud or Soft? Quick or Slow?
Students discuss storyteling ans what makes a story interesting to listen to. They listen as the teacher demonstrates reading expressively. Students work with a reading partner and practice reading with expression. They read from a...
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Actions
In this ESL verbs word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict various actions. Students read the question and answer it in a complete sentence that tells about the action in the picture.
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"What Do You Mean?" How Language Changes Over Time
Pupils examine words used at Jamestown in 1607. They predict what the words meant in 1607, write sentences using three of them, then analyze the sentences after they have read the actual definitions of the words.
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Wherever I Look
Students describe what they see in the world around them. They are to look in each direction to describe what they see. They prepare four panels of drawings of what they see with the sentence they wrote.
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Vocabulary Practice: Similar Meanings
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read a sentence, then circle the letter of the sentence beneath out of 3 that means the same as the first.
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A Beginning Look at Basic Algebra-Lesson 1-12
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders explore the basic of beginning algebra: the order of operations, integer operations, translating phrases and sentences, and solving basic one-step equations. The six page worksheet...
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Vocabulary: Going to Work-Part 2
In this foreign language worksheet, students read 10 sentences that are phrases a person may use to describe getting to work. They select the best choice from three options to fill in the blank in each sentence.
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ESL: Idioms Quiz C
In this ESL idioms instructional activity, students choose the idiom that has the same meaning as a word in parenthesis in a sentence. There are 21 sentences total. Students may click on a "check answers" button.
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Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug
Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words. They listen to the story, 'Creepy Beetles,' then engage in an activity where they identify the rhyming words.
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How Fast Can You Go?
Learners practice their reading fluency in order to increase their reading comprehension. In small groups, they read and reread a sentence using speed and fluency after doing a choppy reading. Next, they listen to a tape and read a book,...
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"Let's Get to the Point--Summarize!"
Students get rid of unnecessary information. They pick out the most important information. Students write a sentence that covers everything that is important information from the passage. They fill out a check list to check behind...
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Transparency
Eighth graders discover proper use of quotation marks. They examine conversations between characters in comics and magazines. In pairs, 8th graders punctuate sentences correctly. They create a story, with dialogue, involving people in a...
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Individual Responsibility--Inaction Is Action
Students view a video that explores the impact an individual can have on a community. They consider the consequences of acting or not acting on their own convictions and participate in a class discussion to share their observations.
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Owen
Students discuss items they may have wanted to bring to school, but were not allowed to. (Example: Blanket). Their responses are listed on chart paper. They listen to the teacher read "Owen" by Kevin Henkes. Students discuss appropriate...
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Verb Review 1: Present/Past
In this verb worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with the correct form of given verbs. Worksheet consists of 5 short review sets.