Purdue University
Email Etiquette for Students
What's the best way to discuss a problem or concern with a professor? Using a helpful PowerPoint, scholars learn how to use e-mail to communicate effectively with their instructors. They discover good and bad e-mail topics, appropriate...
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Spelling: Homophone Review
Third graders practice using homophones. For this homophones lesson, 3rd graders review what makes a word a homophone and use clues to complete a worksheet that requires them to write in the correct homophone.
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Negative Imperatives and Idioms
Learners identify and use positive and negative imperatives and idioms in written and spoken dialogues, and use irregular verbs in written and spoken sentences. They complete various worksheets, re-write dialogues, and complete an...
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Spelling Connections Grade 4: Assessment and Review
In this spelling activity instructional activity, students rewrite the spelling words on the blank lines. Students then create a crossword puzzle with the spelling words.
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Star Words
Students identify and categorize apostrophes. They create maps of the solar system and write simple sentences using apostrophes that describe each planet's characteristics.
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Students copy and practice familiar transportation vocabulary words. They write senteces using contractions for simple directions. They listen to a traffic hews report and summarize the report in their own words. They compare and...
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Present/ Future True Conditionals 1
In this language arts worksheet, students read an instruction box about the use of "if" and the result clauses. Students write the correct form of the verbs in 20 sentences containing the word "if." Then students complete sentences with...
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Weather and Wind
Students study wind and its effect on weather. In this investigative lesson students write a report on wind and weather and create a movement sequence.
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Grade 2 Daily Language Review Quiz
In this daily language review quiz activity, 2nd graders revise 5 sentences by fixing the capitalization, punctuation, and word usage. They choose the best contraction to complete 1 sentence, and tell if the next sentence is fiction or...
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There, Their, and They're
In this grammar activity worksheet, students read the sentences and color in the section to illustrate which there/their/they're to use. Students then circle the correct form. Students finish by writing a sentence for each form of the word.
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Use of the Apostrophe
In this apostrophe worksheet, students read about the uses of the apostrophe, then fill in blanks with words that use apostrophe's and choose correct spellings for contractions.
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 17, 2007
Fourth graders complete a spelling activity to learn how to spell with apostrophes. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher. Students then complete the Instant Activity worksheet for...
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #124
In this spelling worksheet, students practice reading and writing 12 given words. They use the words in a sentence and alphabetize the words. All words are contractions containing the n't suffix.
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Young scholars read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
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Understanding Reduced Forms of Words
Students examine reduced forms of words. They listen to a radio advertisement, identify reduced forms used in the ad, and write the full form of reduced words in sentences.
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Risk Behavior
Pupils explore information about HIV and how the possible contractions of the disease can control their lives. The Far reaching consequences of risk behavior are discussed.
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Grade 1 Language Review #8
In this grade 1 language review worksheet, students edit sentences, complete sentences choosing correct words, write words for a contraction, and find correctly spelled words.
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Grade 1 Language Review #7
In this grade 1 language review activity, students answer a questions, write words for contractions, circle correctly spelled words and edit sentences.
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School-Home Links: Possession and Apostrophes
In this apostrophe worksheet, students read through several sentences and choose the correct apostrophe word from the box to write on the line. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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ESL: Was, Were, There Was and There Were
In this ESL grammar worksheet, students fill in blanks, using the correct choice: was, were, there was, there were, and the contraction forms of these phrases.
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Daily Language Review Quiz #1
In this grammar review activity, students complete 5 grammar tasks: students rewrite 2 sentences with the correct punctuation and capitalization, write a contraction by combining two words, choose the best word to complete a sentence,...
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Editor Travels U.S. Fixing Errors on Signs
An interesting article on editors helps young writers understand the conventions of written English. They read a news article about an editor traveling America correcting spelling and punctuation errors on signs. They discuss...
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Who? What? When? Where? Asking Questions
Sixth graders interview Veterans or role play to answer who, what, where, when questions. In this Veteran's Day questioning activity, 6th graders learn about the events in the military service of veterans. Students may simulate...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
American Stories: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Here's a packet designed especially for those kids who need extra support with the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on American stories.