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TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
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N is for Natural State
For any pupils who live in the state of Arkansas, this would be a fabulous educational experience to help them get to know their state better. Through the use of activities in literature, art, mathematics, science, social studies, and...
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Prepositions Quiz
In this prepositions worksheet, 6th graders complete 10 multiple choice quiz questions about prepositions. In some questions students are asked to read a sentence and identify prepositions.
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Animal Action
Students construct descriptive sentences. In this cross curricular music and descriptive writing lesson, students listen to classical music and pantomime actions that correspond to the music. Students write descriptive sentences...
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Working with Principal Parts: Chapter 1
In this Latin vocabulary worksheet, students select the Latin version of five verb phrases. Students are presented with the English version of a phrase and four possibilities of Latin translations.
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ESL Complete the Sentence- Idiom Worksheet
In this ESL complete the idiom learning exercise, learners fill in the endings to common idioms. They see a small, colorful clip art picture that shows the meaning of the idiom before they complete the sentence.
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Yikes! Wow! An Interjection
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about interjections. They then use what they learned to answer the 14 interjection questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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ESL- Taking a Survey- How Many of Your Classmates?
In this ESL survey learning exercise, students look at colorful clip art pictures before determining how many of their classmate like or do certain things by asking them 8 questions. They determine who likes fish, wears pajamas, or...
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ESL How Many of Your Classmates... IV Survey
For this ESL classroom survey worksheet, students determine how many of their classmate like or do the listed things. They ask classmates 8 questions such as: do they like pizza, go to school by bus, or go in-line skating.
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ESL Simple Past Tense of the Verb To Be- Fill-In-The-Blank Worksheet
In this ESL simple past of the verb, to be, worksheet, students look at 8 small clip art pictures. They write a sentence that describes the picture using the simple past of the verb to be.
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Language Arts: Writing Diamante Poems
Third graders discover how to write diamante poems and review the parts of speech contained in them. After writing poems about their teacher, they create ones about themselves. The poems, assessed for creativity and handwriting, are then...
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A Sneaky Poem
Third graders incorporate a subject and its synonym, and the parts of speech to create a Sneaky Poem. After a lecture/demo, 3rd graders begin writing their poems, and have their classmates act as peer reviewers before final submission.
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Clauses: The Trilogy
In this clauses review worksheet set, students go over the proper use of the trilogy of clauses. They review noun clauses, adverb clauses, and adjective clauses by reading their definitions and examples of their usage. There are no...
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#1 Body Parts
In this ESL body parts vocabulary activity, students examine 7 pictures that depict body parts. Students match them to the words that describe each one.
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ESL Body Parts Matching Worksheet
In this ESL body parts matching worksheet, students match a clip art picture of a body part to its name. They match 10 items such as the nose, lips, cheeks, teeth, and tongue.
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True or False Body Parts
In this picture and word comprehension worksheet, students examine 7 pictures of body parts. Students read the question and from 4 choices, select the correct answer.
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Body Parts: ESL
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict body parts. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Body Parts
In this ESL body parts worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict body parts. Students match these to the words or phrases that describe them.
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Body Parts 1
In this ESL body parts worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures of body parts and other common objects as well. Students match these to the correct nouns.
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Causative Constructions
In this causative constructions worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss causative constructions and build three causative sentences.
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Adverbs of Manner
For this adverbs worksheet, students analyze 6 pictures that depict an action. Students read the sentence starter and write an adverbial phrase that best completes the description of the picture.
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Composition Express
Although this lesson was written to use Express Magazine, it could easily be done with a different source. Pupils write on topics of their choosing, using vocabulary and phrases selected by the teacher. They then create their own...
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The News Article and The Editorial
Here is an outstanding series of lessons on journalism, writing newspaper articles, and writing editorials. This type of writing has long-been neglected in our schools, so this collection of writing activities is most-valuable. Along...
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read...