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Magic Mountain Mansion Lesson Plan
Students think about and discuss what their personal dream mansion in the mountains would look like. They decide on adjectives that would best describe their building which they write on a chart with markers. Using art supplies, they...
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Computer Language
A thorough and engaging slideshow presentation discusses all things computer, from artificial intelligence programs to text messaging lingo. Computer science students will get a kick out of the examples for ELIZA, Otto Jesperson's...
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Literary Terms
Seriously, 93 slides of literary terms? Yes, and well worth the time, although perhaps not all at once. The beauty here is in the concise, easy-to-understand definitions for such well-known terms as imagery and personification, as well...
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Parts of Speech: Verbs
In this verbs worksheet, students read the noun at the beginning of each row and choose all the verbs in that row that the noun could do. Students color in the pencil to show the correct answer.
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Predicate Noun/ Predicate Adjective Recognition Practice
For this predicate noun and predicate adjective worksheet, students analyze 10 sentences. Students make 3 columns on a piece of paper with the headings: Subject, Verb, Predicate Noun or Predicate Adjective. Students identify each part of...
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Personal Pronoun Recognition Practice
In this pronouns worksheet, pupils learn to recognize nominative or objective pronouns. Students read ten sentences and write every pronoun they see in each.
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Idiom Exercise
Don't let your pupils bite off more than they can chew! Comprehending idiomatic speech can be very perplexing to language learners. Readers must use context clues, common sense, and knowledge of the connotative and denotative meanings to...
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Describing the Planets
Young Spanish language learners review the names of each planet. Then, in pairs, they work to complete the chart provided. What is the composition of each planet? What is the color? They learn how to describe the planets.
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Hair Discrimination and the CROWN Act
The CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) is the subject of the lesson that asks groups to research the stories of five different women and share their insights in a jigsaw activity. Participants then craft...
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Close Read, Part 2: “Taggot, the Blacksmith’s Daughter”
It is just a figure of speech. Readers look for figurative language as they read Taggot, the Blacksmith’s Daughter. They complete a Figurative Language graphic organizer by recording and identifying the types of figurative language found...
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Preposition Man
Young scholars practice using prepositions by writing on the tracing of a human. In this parts of speech lesson plan, students create a giant poster using the tracing of a classmate's body and fill in the outline using prepositions in...
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Beginning and Ending Sounds
First graders practice their letter and word recognition skills. In this initial and final sounds lesson, 1st graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to blend phonemes into spoken words and sound out multisyllable...
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Noun Recognition
In this recognizing common and proper noun usage worksheet, students read sentences with blanks and the common and proper nouns in parenthesis at the end of each sentence, choose the correct noun to fill in the blank, and write the...
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Collective Nouns and Verb Agreement Practice
Break down subject and verb agreement with this exercise. This activity only deals with present tense verbs and collective nouns. Pupils learn how to make the verb of a sentence agree with the collective noun by reading sentences and,...
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Chapter 9: Language Processing: Humans and Computers
Designed to accompany An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams, this powerpoint addresses a number of language, technological, and sociological topics. The slides could be helpful in either a...
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The Plane
Prepositions are the focus of this grammar worksheet. Kindergarteners view the positional words over, under, behind and beside. They make a book about planes and read the words. Students color the pictures.
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Word Search - One Syllable, Short O Sound
Can your young learners search for basic words in a word search? Youngsters look for single syllable words like box, lock, pot, dot, log, etc. Have fun while practicing word recognition.
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences in Your Writing
Encourage your young writers to make their writing more interesting by varying their sentence structures. Each color-coded slide offers definitions and models of sentence forms. The final slide in the presentation presents viewers with...
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What is Figurative Language?
Need a review of literary terms and figurative language? Although text heavy, these slides clearly define frequently used terms and provide color-coded examples.
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Articulos Definidos/Definite Articles
El or la? That is the question! Practice definite articles with a quick matching exercise. Spanish language learners draw a line from an article to each of the animal pictures. Allow pupils to color the images for added fun.
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Conjugating Verbs in Spanish
It's time to conjugate! If your class doesn't really know what that means, use the materials provided here to build understanding. The resource covers verbs, infinitives, the different Spanish verb endings, conjugation in the present...
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Summarizing Political Cartoons by Using Standard Parts of Speech
Students analyze a political cartoon, and at the same time cover the basic parts of speech, in order to view a cartoon and determine its subject, action verb, and object.
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Color Match/Vocabulary
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match ten color phrases to the matching pictures. Directions are given in both English and Spanish. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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ESL Let's Color- The Colors of Fruit
In this ESL color matching activity, students examine 10 clipart pictures of brightly colored fruit and match them to the words that best describe them.