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ESL Talking About Future Plans Questioning Worksheet
In this ESL use of future verb tenses worksheet, students use proper verb forms to make plans for a week's worth of evenings leaving two evenings free. They plan two evenings for another student, who fills in plans for them.
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Verbs Rule!
Students practice writing and speaking using conventional grammar, usage, and sentence structure. Students practice as a whole class and then demonstrate their knowledge in written activities. Handouts and worksheets are imbedded within...
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Using and Paying for Electricity: Understanding Your Bill
Students define key terms found on a sample electric bill. They review the past, present and future tenses of the verbs "pay," "owe," "receive" and "call." They conjugate the past, present and future tenses of the verbs "return,"...
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Whose Voice Do I Hear?
Fifth graders examine the power of voice in writing by completing a story using words following a particular voice. They take simple nursery rhymes, then attempt to put their own voice to a revised version. An interesting lesson on writing!
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Going the Distance!
For this distances and dimensions key vocabulary worksheet, students complete 12 sentences with the proper terms from the word bank and then write 6 original sentences using the verbs another word bank.
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Simple Past-Positive Sentences #2
In this simple past tense instructional activity, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Proofreading Activity: "The Twentieth Century"
In this proofreading worksheet, students mark infinitives, prepositional phrases, subjects and verbs in a paragraph titled "The Twentieth Century,"then edit for missing commas.
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Slice & Dice
Third graders participate in a variety of activities to practice grammar and sentence structure. Words are typed up and put in a hat for them to draw from. Once their word is selected, they write several sentences including that word. ...
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary Writing
High schoolers investigate the quality of writing while focusing on the use of sensory words to convey meaning and ideas. The power of similes and metaphors is emphasized while they create and edit works of writing. The skill of...
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Myths
Students work together to develop their own myth. Using the myth they create, they develop a PowerPoint presentation using correct grammar and tense. They also must decide on transitions between the slides and add at least two clipart...
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Using and Paying for Electricity: Finding Billing Information Online
Young scholars use the internet to locate the nearest utilities pay center. They restate answers in the form of questions that they find online. They practice conjugating verbs into different tenses.
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Haiku
The haiku, one of the most popular fixed forms, is the subject of this writing activity, the seventh in a series of ten poetry exercises.
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Expository Paragraph
Upper elementary and middle school writers learn how to craft an expository paragraph by following the six steps detailed in a 48-page instructional guide. Learners learn how to write six different types of informational paragraphs: to...
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The Sand Horse
Fourth graders are introduced to the book THE SAND HORSE and discuss the title and cover illustration. They listen to the story listening for words and phrases to describe the setting. They then brainstorm key words to illustrate the...
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Descriptive Writing
Students discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
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Testing Tips Grades 2 - 6
This simple PowerPoint presentation outlines ten performance-enhancing guidelines for students who are about to take a test. Advice such as, "If you finish early, reread your answers," are included. This resource would be great to show...
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Characterization
A 46-slide presentation focuses on ways to describe characters in stories, how to create story characters, and how to show a character's personality in a student-created story. The colorful and engaging slides provide lots of great ideas...
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Writing a Story
A terrific and meaningful presentation on story writing awaits your class. This really is a good one! Young writers are led through a series of slides that do a terrific job of teaching story elements, but the slides also stimulate their...
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Word Roots 7: Spect, Sta, Vert Intermediate-Crossword
Given the clues, can you complete the crossword puzzle for words containing the Latin roots spect, sta, and vert? No word list is given, but using the answer sheet, you can provide your class with the list of words to choose from. This...
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ABC Grammar Book
Elementary learners create an ABC grammar book. The project begins with class members taking digital pictures of items that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Depending on level, they then add a word or a complete sentence to...
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Painting Places with Words Using John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Useful in an Of Mice and Men unit, or in a unit that focuses on descriptive writing, this lesson prompts young authors to impersonate John Steinbeck's writing style in the opening passages of the novel. A Six Trait writing activity...
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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
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The Old Man and the Sea: Questioning Strategies
Readers learn to ask questions about text with an activity based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. As they read, class members craft questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy and then find the answers themselves.
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Free Verse Poetry Rubric
Follow poetry instruction with a four-category rubric designed to guide budding poets' writing of free verse poetry.