Use this resource to show your class how to make their writing more descriptive by adding adjectives to their sentences. This presentation shows a series of sentences before and after adding an adjective. Your class can discuss how...

Help your class improve their writing with this handy presentation. Learners discuss how to use adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enhance their work. This is a terrific way to connect grammar to its everyday use.

Walk your class through the rules relating to writing plurals using this presentation. In an easy-to-understand format, this resource explores the ways to change a singular word to a plural. There are a number of examples and pictures to...

Quiz your beginning Spanish speakers on their use of definite and indefinite articles. Through two short exercises, they review el, la, un, and una. With the first activity, they write the correct Spanish article for each word. In the...

Students examine the history of the ghettos and read Rumkowski's letter. Using journal and diary entries, they identify types of resistance used during the Holocaust. Writing a letter, they use references to Rumkowski's original letter...

Young scholars investigate the elements found in a media image. The image is used to compose a descriptive paragraph. They exchange papers to discuss the writing and make changes using constructive criticism. Students also make...

Students recognize predictable patterns in literature. They use the selected pattern to create their own writing using the same type of literary pattern. The new writing is proofread by other students and the editing is done until the...

Students review purpose and timing of opening statements in mock trials, discuss particulars of what should be included in opening statements, and write individual opening statements based on facts of their case.

In this spelling worksheet, students read and write given words. They also look up the word in the dictionary and determine its part of speech. There are twelve words to write, which include six pairs of synonyms.

Students research why immigrants came to America and the processes involved in the settlement. They write a script for a short play explaining the causes for immigration and situations that immigrants found themselves in.

In this sentence writing activity, students write a sentence using the word listed. Students must use the words as the correct part of speech in the sentence.

Young scholars 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.

For this spelling worksheet, students write their spelling words. Next, they look up the word in the dictionary and determine its part of speech. There are 12 words on this one-page worksheet.

In this adjective and prepositions learning exercise, learners fill in the blanks in 17 sentences with the parts of speech listed in the word bank. Students also write 3 original sentences using appropriate adjective and preposition...

In this text analysis worksheet, students list and sort words by parts of speech and translate them, and write the phonetic pronunciation of certain words as an aid to studying text.

Learners 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...

In this reported questions worksheet, students create reported speech from a given question. Students complete twenty sentences.

In this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, read eighteen sentences to each other filling in an adjective in each blank.

In this suffixes worksheet, students add the correct suffix to the identified word in each of ten sentences. They write the correctly spelled form of the word after each sentence.

By writing 5 sentences about spring, students practice creating yes and no questions. The prompts for the questions are difficult to follow. A teacher would have to give students explicit directions.

High schoolers discuss their opinions about war.  For this political science lesson, students use a video about war to analyze their own ideas about war.  They discuss the terminology Shakespeare used in reference to war, and...

In this adjectives writing prompt worksheet, students examine a picture of a school scene and then use the space provided to write a story about the picture using the 3 adjectives provided.

For this plural and singular nouns worksheet, students write the plural forms of 16 words given. Definitions and rules are provided but answers are not.

Young scholars use a stick figure to help them learn to write with details. In this details lesson, students brainstorm details to add to the stick figure 'Plain Polly.' Young scholars then draw stick figures for their own writing and...