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Connective Blockbusters
A very clever language arts game awaits your class in this short language arts presentation. Connective words and phrases such as: so, however, unless, until, as well, and even though are on a game board. Pupils must make up a sentence...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
University of Chicago
Using Artifacts for Clues About Identity
Learn about the ancient Near East through a close examination of ancient artifacts. Lead your class into analysis by first observing an artifact as a class. Pupils can then work in pairs to analyze the other artifacts and compile a list...
Coloring Squared
Baseball Player Mystery Puzzle
After solving each multiplication sentence square, pupils color the numbers according to the key. What does the mystery picture make? Class members take a swing at problem solving to find out.
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Paws in JobLand
In these personal information worksheets, students read through the options about the characteristics of the student. Students select the best option and then complete the sentences about their personal preferences.
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Language Arts: Who Am I?
Twelfth graders write self-identity essays of three to five paragraphs in length. They include topic sentences, transition words, and concluding paragraphs in their essays, They read their essays to classmates.
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What Comes Next?
Students use Kidspiration and on online activity to demonstrate comprehension of ordinal and temporal concepts of "first, next, last," and "before" and "after." They name temporal or ordinal positions using correct vocabulary.
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Using "Four-Square"
Third graders use a four-square graphic organizer to help a third grade writer organize thoughts and clarify thinking to write a simple expository paragraph, a workshop summary paragraph.
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My First PowerPoint Presentation
Student practice locating letters on the computer keyboard while correctly typing, reading and recording a sentence. They work in groups while creating a PowerPoint presentation by having each student insert a sentence.
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Connecting Words Worksheet
In this connecting words worksheet, students read ten sentences. From two choices, students select the connecting word that best completes the sentence.
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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
In this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, parts of speech, dictionary work, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Recycling: Creative Uses for Items
Third graders list creative uses for old objects. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders work in groups to brainstorm creative, new uses for old, everyday items. This is the first lesson in a unit on recycling.
Pennington Publishing
Vocabulary Worksheet #1 & #2
These two worksheets cover several grammatical topics. Pupils work on words with multiple meanings, Greek and Latin word parts, word connotations, academic language, and more. The result is seven quick exercises that could be used...
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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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Properties of Equality
What assumptions are made in order to solve equations? An instructional slideshow provides an overview and guided examples of how properties of equality can be used to justify each step in solving equations.
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In Addition / Additionally / Plus / Moreover / Furthermore / …as well
In this writing transitions worksheet, students practice using transitions as they write 7 sentences using in addition, additionally, plus, moreover, furthermore, and as well.
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Using Conjunctions and Transitions to Express Cause and Effect
In this conjunctions and transitions worksheet, students choose the correct conjunction or transition to complete the sentence.
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Sequencing Pocket Chart
Cut it out! Beginning readers practice sequencing skills at home or at school with a variety of activities that require cutting out multiple sets of picture cards and putting them in the correct order.
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Yikes! More verbs: Intransitive Verbs
In this transitive and intransitive verbs instructional activity, learners identify each verb type in sentences. In this short answer and fill in the blank instructional activity, students answer fifteen questions.
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Using Say or Tell in Sentences
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students complete the paragraph by filling in the words "say" or "tell." There are 15 fill-in's to complete.
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The Editing Process
Learners read a sample essay and evaluate them in groups. They write their own essay on a topic of their choice and use peer editing. They share their essays with the class.
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The Rest Cure: Gender in Medicine and Literature
Read and discuss "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and the gender issues that the story brings up. Use articles from the time period to analyze, complete with specific discussion questions. After two days, scholars write an essay based on topics...
San José State University
Semicolons
This worksheet provides a good description of when to use a semicolon, followed by 6 sentences to practice inserting punctuation. A key is provided.
jc-schools
The Expository Essay
Did you ever create an awesome graphic organizer only to find that your class was completely baffled by how to use it? This resource not only provides you with a great graphic organizer for a standard five-paragraph essay, but also...