Describing things using adjectives is the focus of this lesson designed for language learners. Class members play games, draw pictures, and sing songs, adding adjectives to describe animals.

Where have all the activists gone? Class members compare 21st-century activism with the suffrage movement and the work of Susan B. Anthony. They begin by examining Anthony's biography and speeches to find evidence that her words and...

Young historians investigate the often-hidden history of free and enslaved African American women before the Civil War. Using a collection of primary and secondary sources, including speeches, diaries, and poems, they evaluate the often...

Investigate the impact and function of adverbs with a grammar worksheet. Kids look for the adverbs and adverbial phrases in 15 sentences, and then underline the verbs that the adverb modifies.

After your class has mastered the present and past subjunctive, allow them to explore additional tenses in the subjunctive mood. The resource covers how to conjugate the present perfect, pluperfect, and future subjunctive. Practice is...

Teach your class how to form the imperfect subjunctive. Included here is information on and examples of regular imperfect subjunctive verbs, irregular imperfect subjunctive verbs, and imperfect subjunctive -se endings displayed in long...

Once your class has mastered the indicative, it's time to present the subjunctive mood. This resource focuses solely on how to conjugate in the present subjunctive, but does link to more information on how to to use it. Class members can...

Discover alliteration found in picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards. Then, dive into a read aloud of Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak. This practice sets the stage for budding poets to create their own acrostic poem,...

Learners follow five steps to compose an alliteration poem. They choose one consonant and brainstorm as many nouns, verbs, and adjectives they can think of to create rhyming sentences that come together in a poetic fashion. 

Focus on how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the preterite. You can use this webpage to inform your own lesson on the preterite, take a day in the computer lab, or flip your classroom and have pupils examine the page for homework. There is...

Though often used in shows of patriotism, Bruce Springsteen's 1985 song "Born in the U.S.A." is critical of America's role in the Vietnam war and its treatment of American veterans. High schoolers analyze the song's lyrics in an activity...

For many people, Barack Obama's presidency was the next step in Martin Luther King, Jr's dream of America's future. Explore the dreams of Americans past and present, as well as the young Americans in your class, with a set of activities...

A study of Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman" opens a lesson about narrative poetry. Scholars read the poem and compare it to the animated video version using a worksheet. Learners look at models and use a template to craft an "I Am"...

Introduce your class to Edgar Allan Poe with a series of mostly self-guided tasks and assignments. Class members follow the list of tasks, starting by watching a video with background information and ending with a compare-and-contrast...

Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech lesson, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech. 

In this interjection worksheet, students read the 6 sentences and underline the interjections in the sentences. The students are also asked to create 2 of their own sentences using interjections.

In this parts of speech worksheet, students choose the correct part of speech for words alone and words in sentences. Students complete 2 activities total.

High schoolers see the difference between protected and prohibited speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment. They explain why free speech is essential to a democracy and consider how best to deal with speech they find offensive.

In this language arts worksheet, students find and underline 21 made-up words in the 10 sentences shown. Students identify what part of speech that word is and place each in the parts of speech chart. Finally students write the sentences...

In this parts of speech review worksheet, students read over definitions and examples of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, nouns, and verbs.

In this parts of speech worksheet, students read 15 crossword puzzle clues and fill in the missing letters in the crossword puzzle boxes. Some of the letters for each answer are provided as clues, and students must fill in the missing...

For this grammar and phonics worksheet, 1st graders complete multiple choice questions about parts of speech, fill in the blanks to sentences, spelling, punctuation, and more. Students complete 15 questions.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students put the vocabulary words from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ch. 5 and 6 next to the correct definitions and write the part of speech. Students complete 10 problems.