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Past Simple Questions and Short Answer Forms
Students review and consolidate past simple question forms and short answers to extend their use to a variety of different regular and irregular verbs.
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Present Perfect: Forms
For this present perfect and past participle worksheet, students read examples on how to write subjects into the present perfect and past participle form. Students also read about different verbs in those tenses. Click on "Continue with...
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Conditional Quiz #2
In this conditional sentence instructional activity, students must complete the given sentences using the correct verb form to make a conditional sentence.
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Past Simple Worksheet
In this past simple worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct form of the word given to them to make the sentence in the past simple form. Students complete this for 17 problems.
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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
California Department of Education
I Have “M.I.” Strengths!
There are so many ways to be smart! Can your class identify their intelligences? The third of five career and college lesson plans designed for sixth graders challenges them to assess their unique skills. Once they determine their...
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Grammar Bellwork
Ding! The bell just went off, and your class is already knee-deep in reviewing prepositional phrases thanks to this PowerPoint. Twenty-six slides cover 25 preposition activities, and a final slide shows a list of prepositions learners...
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Guided Reading with David's Drawings by Cathryn Falwell
First graders participate in a guided reading lesson. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders read David's Drawings by Cathryn Falwell, which is a realistic fiction book on the DRA:16 level. They determine the author's message, and...
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Lost Person Role-play
In this role play learning exercise, students assume the role of a private detective and a customer trying to find a missing person. Students work with 1 partner.
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a worksheet that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
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Derbyshire Accent Project 1
Compare the Derbyshire accent to Standard English. There are eight common differences between the two languages for learners to discover. A great worksheet to start a discussion on the various forms and conventions of Standard English.
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Improving Sentences
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.
Road to Grammar
Emphatic Adjectives
Ensure that your learners have a wonderful, fabulous, astonishing, outstanding knowledge of adjectives. This resource focuses in particular on strong adjectives. Included are a few pages of explanation and instruction, two exercises, and...
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers
This handout gives an overview of the passive and active voices as well as pointing out that the grammar checkers in word processing programs mark sentences written in the passive voice as incorrect. While this is not an interactive...
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs
Often when we write the past tense of a regular verb, we add an "-ed" after the last letter. Irregular verbs do not follow this rule! The simple past and simple participle of irregular verbs can end in a variety of ways with no...
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Oxford Dictionaries: Verb Tenses: Adding Ed and Ing
Spelling rules and word lists for adding -ed and -ing endings to verbs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
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Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are
Verbals are verbs disguised as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Verbals come in three forms: gerunds, infinitives, and participles. Gerunds are verbs that end in "-ing" and function as nouns. Participles end in "-ing," "-ed," "-d," "-t,"...
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 1
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: started, played, and fixed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 2
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: pulled, wanted and walked. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 3
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: needed, realized, and reached. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.
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English Club: Esl Games: Ed Pronunciation Games: Game 4
Match each word ending in "ed" with its proper pronunciation: locked, decided, and closed. Answers can be checked when completed, and a percentage score is displayed.