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General to Specific
Students revise a recent draft of writing to make the content more specific. They trace their hands on a large sheet of paper. Students, in the palms of their traced hand print, write in the general topic of the writing draft. On the...
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Should/Might, Who/Which/That
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete sentences using should, might, who, which, and that, make sentences, combine sentences, and more. Students complete 4 sentences total.
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Subject/Predicate Song
Students sing a song about the parts of a sentence. For this grammar lesson, students sing a song that defines both the subject and the predicate and how they make a sentence together.
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Parallel Structure
For this language arts worksheet, students read 6 sample sentences. They revise sentences that do not use parallel structure.
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Like and Don't Like: Object Pronouns
In this object pronoun worksheet, learners review object pronouns. Then they use like and don't like to use object pronouns in sentences.
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Lesson Five:Determining Ideas and Adding Details
Second graders create their own writing pieces. In this narrative lesson, 2nd graders use a graphic organizer to come up with ideas and details. They practice writing topic sentences.
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A Card For Every Season
Second graders create greeting cards on the computer. For this greeting cards lesson plan, 2nd graders will create greeting cards that include simple sentences to express what they want to say.
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What a Painting!
In this language arts learning exercise, learners begin sentences with phrases starting with the word "there", complete a crossword, and complete a crossword. Students complete 3 activities total.
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Conditionals Theory
In this conditionals worksheet, students watch videos and complete the sentences with the correct verb tense, and choose the correct option for sentences. Students complete 4 activities.
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The Hook
A fishing hook inspires this presentation about different methods for starting a composition. Have class members take notes or edit current drafts while viewing the slide show. The animation is entertaining, but gets repetitive by the...
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The Writing Process
Lead your learners through the different stages of the writing process. Show them this presentation as they work through a writing assignment, breaking it up over several days of work. You might also post this on a class website as a...
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Change of Perspective
After reading an example of a Cultural Connection about a particular person, class members are asked to think about what this person might experience on a daily basis. They then craft a narrative from the subject’s point of view.
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Descriptive Prompt: Precise Language
Incorporate sensory details into a piece of descriptive writing. First, elementary and middle schoolers improve a piece of writing by using precise, vivid language, as well as appropriate word choice. They then listen to a variety of...
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #8
Readers answer 8 multiple choice questions by selecting the correct revisions to the paragraph provided. The focus is on prepositions, syntax, and parts of speech. A good, quick exercise for ELL classes or review for middle schoolers.
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #8
If you are looking for a worksheet to challenge intermediate English learners on verb tense, syntax, and punctuation, you might want to check out this worksheet. Readers select the correct revisions to a passage in eight multiple choice...
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Proofreading and Revising Articles for a Class Newsletter
Students submit their newsletter articles and a newsletter team proofreads them. Revisions are suggested. Writers revise their articles. Using a template from a word processing program, articles are typed in final form.
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Revising for Parallelism
In this parallelism learning exercise, students revise 20 sentences to make its structure parallel. A sample is given at the top of the page.
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Revising Character Descriptions
Students effectively revise character descriptions. In this revising character descriptions lesson, students work with a partner to give and receive constructive criticism to improve their character descriptions.
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Revision- Past Simple Tense
In this past simple tense instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with was, wasn't, were, or weren't, and write the past simple forms of the irregular and regular verbs. Students complete 3 activities.
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Five-Paragraph Essay
Seventh graders examine the five-paragraph essay format, including the main idea and supporting sentences. After outlining their essay ideas, they write their rough drafts and proofread them in preparation for writing their final papers.
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Revision for the Test
In this language review worksheet, students match questions with answers, choose what or who to complete sentences, choose correct words, answer yes or no questions, and more. Students complete 6 activities.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 34
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
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Commas and Nonessential Elements Exercise 2
In this comma learning exercise, students are given ten sentences and must determine whether the sentence is correctly written. Students must correct the sentences and identify nonessential information.
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Cause And Effect
Fourth graders read the book Stellaluna and cite sentences that show cause and effect in the story. In this cause and effect lesson plan, 4th graders also write sentences that show cause and effect in their own lives.