School Speech Contest

In this adverb worksheet, students identify the adverb in a sentence. Students indicate whether the adverb tells how, when or where about the verb.

What makes a speech effective? Middle schoolers critique a speech for content and presentation. They view a video of a middle school student presenting an informational speech, They outline the content of the speech and critique the...

Students write and present a speech that addresses a social problem based on the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. For this speech lesson plan, students also decorate their speech to make it visually appealing.

Students listen to President Obama's speech, and discuss its meaning. For this President Obama lesson students learn about the president, about how to deliver a speech, and the ways they can make a difference. They create posters, write...

A reading of Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County not only offers pupils an opportunity to practice their listening skills but also provides them with examples of dialectic speech. This is the gol’derndest lesson...

Do your learners know what relative pronouns are? How about relative clauses? They can practice identifying both of these by completing this instructional activity. There are 25 sentences here for pupils to work with.

Students research various aspects of school bus safety such as what makes a bus safe and unsafe. Using provided Internet sites and others students examine what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has to say and also what...

"Dad jokes" aren't the only ways to hear some groan-worthy puns! A poetry instructional activity explores how figurative language, particularly puns, can make poetry funny, before class members create their own silly poems.

Students role cubes prepared with vocabulary and parts of speech on each side. They collect words and create poems from the words collected. They read their poems to the class.

In this English idioms about the body worksheet, middle schoolers interpret sayings about the body and complete sentences using them correctly.