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ACT College Readiness Standards
Here is a template offering a comprehensive outline of ACT skill categories, what standards are expected to be mastered, and blank spaces for you to include how you plan to address those standards within your curriculum.
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To Quote or Not to Quote
Quotation marks are the focus of this resource. In it, youngsters discover how to correctly use punctuation marks. It is meant to be carried out over a three-day period. You could shorten it, but I wouldn't. The activities are...
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Quiet On The Set... Take 1...Action!!
Students complete an activity with the book Step by Step by Bruce McMillan. In this verb lesson, students create a list of action verbs from this book and more to use in their own writings. They will create stick puppets to act out the...
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Spanish 1 Chapter 3
Students explore the pronouns ir, estar, ser, tener, querer, poder, and jugar. They do a word scramble using 8 words from chapter, and clues needed to be in the Spanish sentences. Students design concept poster from using 10 vocabulary...
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Sentence Construction: What is a Sentence?
What must a sentence contain in order to be complete? What different types of sentences exist? Look at declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences with this 17-slide presentation. Several example sentences are shown, and the...
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Literature Terms Activity
Designed to be used with an independent reading book, this activity provides practice with identifying and explaining literary terms. While they read, individuals find instances of literary devices and elements in use in their books....
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 22
In this vocabulary activity, students select the best of four choices to complete each of eight sentences. The activity is intended to be used with advanced English language learners.
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 24
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blank in eight sentences. Each sentence has four similar words for students to select from. The worksheet is intended to be used with advanced English language learners.
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Complex Number Division 1
Conjugating in the math classroom — and we're not talking verbs! The seventh lesson in a series of 32 introduces the class to the building blocks of complex number division. During the instruction, the class learns to find the...
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 23
In this vocabulary worksheet, students choose the best answer from the four possibilities to compete each of the eight sentences. The worksheet is intended to be used with advanced English language learners.
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 21
In this vocabulary worksheet, students choose from four words with similar meanings to complete each of eight sentences. The worksheet is intended to be used with English language learners.
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Preparing for the WPE
Prepare your soon-to-be graduates to take the Writing Proficiency Examination given at Cal Poly. These slides cover everything from the various types of questions to writing thesis statements. This is more like an overview than a...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4
The fourth standard for reading literature in the Common Core calls for young readers to be able to determine the figurative and connotative meanings of words and phrases. Use this resource, a continuation of a series of Common Core...
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Present Progressive Tense
Teaching the present progressive? Your class needs this informative handout! Consider reading it through with them and stopping occasionally to provide practice opportunities or board examples.
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Do You know Saber and Conocer?
Ser and estar aren't the only Spanish words that have a similar meaning. Saber and conocer do too! This activity details the slight difference in meaning, organizes the information in two simple charts, and contains fifteen...
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Topic Language- "what Do I Do?" -exploring Verbs
For this verb worksheet, 3rd graders read a selection on verbs and a short story. Students circle all of the verbs in the short story and sort them into a graphic organizer using present, past and future tense.
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The Present Tense- Present Perfect
In this present perfect verb tense worksheet, learners study the proper use of the verb tense by reading the explanation and examples on the first page. They apply the rules while completing 10 sentences and writing 4. They complete 14...
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The Simple Future Tense
In this simple future tense worksheet, learners read the rules for forming this tense. They write the correct form of the simple future tense using "will" in 7 sentences. They do the same using "going" in the next 7 sentences. They write...
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Comparisons of the Past Simple and Present Perfect Verb Tenses
For this past simple and present perfect verb tense worksheet, students study two tables that show the proper use of the verb tenses. They complete 7 sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct verb tense.
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English Exercises: Past Forms
For this online interactive verbs worksheet, students respond to 21 fill in the blank questions that require them to use verbs appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Present Perfect: Present Perfect or Simple Past?
In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding present perfect and simple past verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Exercises: Present Perfect Tenses
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 45 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions about verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Exercises: Present Continuous
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 40 fill in the blank and 19 multiple choice questions that require them to use present continuous verbs appropriately. Students may submit their answers to...
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English Exercises: Past Simple Exercise
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 51 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions that require them to use verbs appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.