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Adverbs
This short presentation on adverbs clearly describes two of their main purposes: to tell when something is happening, and to tell how something is happening. A few examples are given for each, and students are encouraged to write their...
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"My Animal"
Students determine which animal best represents them write reasons why. This is a nice culminating lesson for students who have been working on descriptive writing.
Odell Education
Making Evidence-Based Claims: Grade 6
In order to make evidence-based claims, one must be able to draw explicit information from text. From here, learners take that information, analyze the text to develop a deeper understanding, and connect with the information in order to...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership
Learners read a short excerpt from a speech by Sam Houston and answer corresponding questions as well as engage in additional activities, including writing a persuasive essay and discussing topics in small groups. The resource helps lay...
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Differences Among Colonial Regions
Classes look at and analyze primary source images to explore the differences between the colonial regions during the Revolutionary era. They break into groups to tackle each region and then present their findings to the class. A final...
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Parts of Speech: Nouns
Second graders discuss nouns. In this language arts instructional activity, 2nd graders discuss nouns and pronouns. Students identify various types of nouns on a worksheet. Students play "Popcorn" Nouns.
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Writing for Foreign Students Conjunctions
For this grammar worksheet, students combine six pairs of sentences with correlative conjunctions. Students also complete nine sentences with a pronoun or subordinate conjunction to complete each sentence grammatically correct.
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Connect the Dots and Write: Adjectives
In this adjectives connect the dots and write instructional activity, students trace 15 adjectives 2 times each. Students match the 15 words to the pictures of the appropriate words.
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Amazing Speeches
Students study the speeches of Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Joseph. Students write a story set during the Nineteenth Century Era. Students present their story to the class. Handouts and worksheets are included in the...
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Topic: Persuasive Speech
Students write and present health related persuasive essays. For this persuasive essay lesson, students write a two minute long speech about how to stay fit, which they rehearse a home. They present the speech in a second class period.
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Giving a Persuasive Speech
Students examine how to plan their own thoughts, write down specific notes, and prepare to give their speech on a topic from the list. They take a specific side and present their arguments to the class.
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Informative Speech with Research
Students complete an informative research activity. In this informative speech lesson, students select a topic to research and write an informative speech for the topic. Students rehearse and give their speech in class.
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Free Speech Comes At a Price
Young scholars use communicative activity strategy, Go, Ask and Tell, or more traditional whole text comprehension activity to read, discuss and explore issues in article, Free Speech Comes at a Price, by Hugh Mackay.
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Designing Visual Support For "The Greatest American" Speech
Students study several periods in American history, define the term "greatest American," and brainstorm possible criteria for selecting great Americans. They create a three to five minute persuasive speech along with visual aids to...
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Parts of Speech
In this grammar instructional activity, students focus on the various parts of speech. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions in this online interactive instructional activity.
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Verb Tenses; Reported Speech-3
For this foreign language worksheet, young scholars fill in the blanks for ten sentences. Each sentence present a quote that a person might hear. They write an interpretation of the intent of the speaker.
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Keynote Digital Parts of Speech
Pupils create a parts of speech digital presentation. In this parts of speech instructional activity, students create a slide show with audio, pictures, movies, and text. They combine their slides to project the entire project.
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Publishing: A Persuasive Essay
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
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Writing with Pronouns
For this pronouns worksheet, students learn to write with pronouns in a research report to make their writing smooth. Students complete the three activities to help them with pronouns.
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Writing a Comparison/Contrast Paragraph: Using Vivid Verbs
In this vivid verbs worksheet, students complete three activities that help them use strong, vivid verbs in the comparison and contrast writing.
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Parts of Speech Table
In this identifying the missing words in a parts of speech table worksheet, students read columns of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs and fill in the missing words. Students write fill in 40 blanks.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Person to Person: Challenge Activities (Theme 4)
The world is a big place—discover it! A series of challenge activities designed to accompany Theme 4: Person to Person encourages learners to explore the world around them. Project-based activities promote research and writing skills in...
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Putting it Together: Analyzing and Producing Persuasive Text
Young orators demonstrate what they have learned about persuasion and persuasive devices throughout the unit by analyzing a persuasive speech and then crafting their persuasive essays. Class members engage in a role-play exercise, use...
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Langston Hughes Was a Dreamer Too
Encourage your pupils to imagine their own dreams for the future. After studying three poems by Langston Hughes and listening to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech, young poets craft their own dream stanza.