Teaching Tolerance
The Power of Words: Normative Sexuality
Young scholars collect newspaper articles which discuss societies who enforce heterosexuality. They brainstorm how heterosexuality is enforced in their community. They answer questions to end the instructional activity.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We’re a Family: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)
Teach your English language learners how to talk about their families with three weeks of lessons. Over the course of the thematic unit, learners pick up new vocabulary so that they can talk about families and relationships, clothing,...
Curated OER
Practice Adding the ing Suffix
Second graders practice adding ing to words ending in one vowel and one consonant. In this adding ing lesson, 2nd graders participate in a teacher demonstration of adding suffixes to one vowel, one consonant words. They learn the rule...
Choose My Plate
MyPlate Word Blanks
Create a silly cooking themed story using nouns, adjectives, verbs, and more! Pupils fill in the blanks using their knowledge of different types of fruit, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy, then read the story aloud to hear a...
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Suffixes 2
A list of nine verbs is provided for students to add different suffixes; a bank of five suffixes is also given. Only some of the suffixes actually work with verbs, though, so this is a good opportunity for discovery. Learners reflect on...
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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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Word-building
Practice changing verb tenses and adverbs with a worksheet on vocabulary. A word bank at the top of the page instructs third and fourth graders to add -ing, -s, and -ful to different words. Great for reinforcing vocabulary rules! Use the...
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"Ing" Words as Descriptors
This clever lesson has your students listen to story about bugs, work together to brainstorm list of "ing" words that describe bugs, create t-chart of words, choose words to place in poem template to create class poem about bugs, and use...
Essential Skills Software
Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Adding -ed and -ing
In this endings -ed and -ing worksheet, 4th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they answer fourteen clues or phrases associated with spelling words that end in -ed or -ing.
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Adding -ed and -ing, -er and -est
In this suffixes worksheet, 5th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they answer seventeen clues and statements associated with a spelling list of words that end in ed, ing, er and/or est.
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Suffixes Beginning with Vowels
In this suffixes worksheet, middle schoolers respond to 10 questions by correctly adding the provided suffixes to the root word forming new words.
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Word Endings: "ed" and "ing"
In this word ending worksheet, students read the rules for adding ed to a word, then look at 9 words with the ed or ing endings and write their root words next to them.
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School-Home Links: Root Words and Suffixes
In this spelling new words worksheet, students learn to figure out the meaning of a new word by learning the root word and suffix. Students put the root words and suffixes together to make new words and write those words on the line....
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In My World
Students identify base words and their inflectional forms. For this base words lesson plan, students learn how adding "ing" can change the meaning of the word, and they fill in a chart with different forms of base words.
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My Three Wishes
Students write/type a three wish paragraph into Microsoft Word. They include specific items and ideas, that are listed in this lesson plan, in their paragraph. They participate in printing their paragraphs and sharing them with the class.
Calvin Crest Outdoor School
Survival
Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...
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Word Endings: ed and ing
For this word ending worksheet, students read about the rules for adding ed or ing to words ending with a vowel followed by a consonant, then add the word endings to a set of 8 words.
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Word Endings: "ed" and "ing"
In this word ending worksheet, students read the rules of adding ed or ing to root words, then change root words to fit into sentences correctly. Worksheet is part of a subscription site with links and is labeled as a sample.
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Here's an Instant Activity for September 6, 2004
What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.
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Suffix City
In these spelling worksheets students will focus on words with the -ain spelling pattern. Using these five words students will add suffixes to each word and complete 12 sentences with the correct missing word.
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Test Your Grammar Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by inserting the correct "ing" word. Twenty words are given to answer twenty questions.
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Beginning, Middle, or End?
Here's a instructional activity to help students become familiar with where to find words in a dictionary. Students whether the each of the 15 flower related words would be found at the beginning, middle or end of the dictionary.
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Using Progressive (-ing) Verb Forms
In this verb usage instructional activity, students change 10 verbs to their progressive forms using -ing endings. They fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the newly formed verbs.