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Gender Neutral Language
Tackling gender issues in your class? This online quiz about gender neutral language might be for you! Learners re-write 10 sentences using gender neutral language. When they have finished re-writing each sentence, they can check their...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.8
Demonstrate the importance of evaluating and citing sources. Pupils can complete the suggested assignment provided here, or one of your choosing, while focusing on checking that the resources are credible and citing those sources...
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Propaganda: What’s the Message?
As class members progress through eight fully prepared learning stations, they will identify how bias is present in persuasive media, as well as differentiate among types of propaganda techniques like bandwagon propaganda and the...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.7
When your pupils read an account of an event, are they conscious of the fact that this particular account might focus on certain details, while ignoring others? Open their eyes to bias and varying interpretation of facts with the...
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Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
Commercial advertising—we can't get away from it, but do we realize just how often we are being advertised to? With this instructional activity, scholars analyze mass media to identify how its techniques influence our daily lives....
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Civil Rights Biography: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduce your class to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his many accomplishments through a one-page biography. Class members read the text and respond to three questions included at the end.
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"Ursula Pugh"
Intermediate English language learners read the short, page-long story "Ursula Pugh" and answer the multiple choice questions that follow. Most of the questions focus on vocabulary development and understanding of the story. An answer...
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Sentence Completion 17
These words are tough! Very advanced English language learners or native speakers will still be befuddled by some of these vocabulary words. For each of the six sentences provided, learners must choose the correct word to complete the...
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Worksheet for Analysis of a Letter
Dear Nancy, how do you analyze a letter? Love, Trez. Dear Trez, you use a Letter Analysis Worksheet. Love, Nancy.
This richly detailed worksheet provides multiple questions that lead researchers step-by-step through the process of...
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Reading Comprehension: "Fried"
Prepare your high schoolers for upcoming testing with this reading comprehension practice! Learners will read the passage entitled "Fried," and then they will answer the questions that follow. Most questions focus on defining vocabulary...
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Discussion Web for The Catcher in the Rye
Is Holden Caulfield a reliable narrator? Readers use the provided graphic organizer to record specific textual evidence from The Catcher in the Rye to support their response. A teacher copy of the template is provided.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1
Focus on writing argument essays with your high schoolers. The lesson suggested here focuses on The Jungle, by Sinclair Lewis; however, the idea could be adapted for other texts. Check out the quick quiz provided at the end of the...
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Web Page Evaluation
Invite your learners to research three different websites that pertain to a topic focused on in your syllabus. Students fill out a chart by answering questions about each site. Then, they compare how useful the sites are to one...
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 8 - Exercise 3b
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Emerson's Essays Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Emerson's Essays. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Word Categories
In this word categories learning exercise, students work in groups to place the given words into categories of five of their own choosing.
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Advanced Sentence Completion 10
In this sentence completion worksheet, young scholars choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence. Students may have more than one blank to fill per sentence.
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Advanced Sentence Completion 11
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence from five possible choices.
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Biography/Autobiography Book Report
For this book report worksheet, students select a biography or autobiography to read and then use the activities on the worksheet to complete a book report.
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Intermediate Synonyms and Antonyms #3
In this synonyms and antonyms worksheet, students review the definitions of the literary terms. Students complete 2 activities for synonyms and antonyms for the 12 examples.
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Sources of Information
In this sources of information worksheet, students respond to 7 fill in the blank questions regarding primary and secondary sources.
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Reading Guide: OJ's Final Run and Cirque du OJ
In this reading guide, students define vocabulary and literary terms found in the articles 'OJ's Final Run' and 'Cirque du OJ'. Students also answer comprehension questions based on the reading.
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One Word Substitution
In this "p word" worksheet, students match the words beginning with the letter p with their definitions. Students match 10 words to their definitions.
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Reading-Grade 3 Advanced 1
In this grade 3 reading worksheet, 3rd graders answer a set of 20 multiple choice "advanced" questions covering a variety of grade 3 concepts. Answers may be submitted online.