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Excessive Nominalizations
Eliminate unnecessary nominalizations from your middle schoolers' writing! After reviewing a reference page for the -tion ending (and when it can be excessive in writing), learners rewrite eight sentences to change nominalizations to a...
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Reintroduce /b/
Combine letter sounds, pronunciation, recognition, and word examples in one exercise by following these strategies. Scholars examine the letter b and identify it if they can. As they listen to you make the /b/ sound, youngsters try...
K12 Reader
My Sled is Red
Celebrate the snow with a quick exercise featuring a short poem about a sled. Learners practice -ed words and answer three included reading comprehension questions.
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Pronouncing "ed" Endings
In this pronunciation instructional activity, students learn how to pronounce words with an "ed" ending. They then 5 different exercises using "ed" words. There are 17 questions on this page.
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Word Patterns: Forming Words
In this word pattern worksheet, learners add beginning letters to a series of the same ending letters to form words that have the same word endings.
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-ed/-ing Practice
In this -ed and -ing endings worksheet, students fill in the 8 blanks in 2 paragraphs with the appropriate forms of the verbs in parentheses.
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Adjectives - ed or -ing exercise
In this adjectives worksheet, students fill in the blank to sentences with adjectives given to them. Students choose the -ed or -ing version of the adjective for 20 sentences and make up 3 of their own.
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Final Consonant "ed" Sound
In this ending consonant "ed" learning exercise, students read these words: teddy, red, bed. Students write each word 2 times and then draw a picture of a bed and a teddy bear.
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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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Identify letters and sounds
In this letters, words, and sounds worksheet, students say sounds, identify letters, read sentences, read words, and read -ed and -en words. Students complete 6 activities total.
Nosapo
Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense
Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past...
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'-in' as in bin
For this recognizing -in words worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the ending letters 'in', answer yes and no questions about the words with pictures, and read sentences and draw the pictures. Students complete sixteen activities.
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Focus on Suffixes
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to add suffixes to root words by completing 15 questions. Students read the root word given, then choose a suffix from the choices and make a new word. Students then write an additional...
California Department of Education
Name That Job!
Can you name the job that involves scholars, classes, and grades? If you guessed teacher, you just won a round of Name That Job! The second lesson in a five-part college and career readiness unit has career seekers team up and go head to...
California Department of Education
An Online Tool I Can Use
Tools for school—and beyond! Introduce your sixth graders to online tools to plan their academic and professional futures. The fifth and final lesson in a series of career and college readiness activities focuses on a scavenger hunt to...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Animal Adventures: Challenge Activities (Theme 6)
Challenge learners who have mastered the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on animal adventures with the activities and exercises suggested in this packet packed with ideas.
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Let’s Look Around!: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)
Let's Look Around! is the theme of a unit that offers a plethora of challenge activities. Enhance your scholars' learning experiences and reinforce concepts with activities such as writing a book about farm animals, an...
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Pronunciation: The Sounds /s/, /z/ or, /iz/? Consonant Clusters with "s"
Instruct your class on how to pronounce /s/ sounds with this resource. Learners fill in the final /s/ sound into blanks, listen to plural sounds, learn about the rules of the target sound, write sentences, and work with consonant...
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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Oral Language
Students explore rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students discuss rhyming words, brainstorm words that end with 'at,' read poems with rhyming words and create their own rhyming books.
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The Sand Crab
In this rhyming words worksheet, students read a poem to discover the lines that rhyme. Students identify two lines that rhyme.
TED-Ed
How to Choose Your News
How do you get the truth unfiltered by middlemen? Tune into various sources and note the differences is the suggestion in a short video that begins by providing examples of how media gatekeepers have manipulated information and how those...
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Adding -ed Practice Sheet
In this suffix worksheet, students practice adding the suffix 'ed' to the variety of words listed. Students use the rules to help them spell the words correctly.
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English Skills Assignment 6.204
In this English skills instructional activity, students complete 60 exercises in grammar, spelling and language. Included on this page are: onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, word chess, missing vowels and consonants, parts of...