Everyday Use

Your class has many interests and hobbies outside school hours. Have them study the words used for these activities, as well as words for everyday objects in their home, in a vocabulary activity that includes word banks, a crossword...

Can your class tell the difference between various household items? Have them use a word bank to complete a series of vocabulary exercises, which include fill-in-the-blanks and matching words to pictures.

With multiple choice activities, fill-in-the-blanks, and matching exercises, a grammar worksheet uses household vocabulary to help kids practice the present progressive tense. The last activity also uses words associated with housework.

English language learners are introduced to the phrase used to when it's paired with a word in the past tense. They choose the correct option to complete each incomplete sentence. A detailed answer guide is provided. 

In this adjectives worksheet, students use the adjectives given to describe the situations in the pictures and create a short conversation. Students are given 12 pictures.

Delve deep into a Greek roots study with this graphic organizer. Scholars identify and define everyday words that are made from the Greek roots ast, bio, geo, and graph. 

Students create an iPhoto book exhibiting a variety of idioms that describe feelings. They take photos using a digital camera that show students exhibiting the feelings explained by the idioms.

In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Kentucky Derby. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

Explore the properties of oil through an experiment. They use the scientific process to investigate oil, participate in experiments, watch videos,and use information from the internet to determine how oil has changed our everyday lives.

Teach your upper graders how to use an idea web to develop a topic for writing. After reading a variety of stories about friendship (a list of stories with the theme of friendship is included), model using an idea web. Class members...