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Creative Writing Workshop (Middle, Reading/Writing)
Bring this lesson into your unit about creative writing and precise language. First, middle schoolers create a piece of writing with the help of their classmates. In the second part of this workshop, they edit their own piece of writing....
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Kinds (Function) of Prepositional Phrase Recognition Practice
In this adjective and adverbial phrases practice worksheet, middle schoolers read an informative instructional activity. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to identify prepositional phrases and label the adjective or...
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Other Pronoun Recognition Practice
In this pronoun recognition worksheet, learners read about pronouns other than personal, then complete an exercise, writing verbs that agree with indefinite pronouns in sentences.
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Comma Exercises
In this grammar learning exercise, students identify the comma rules by reading over them for review. They perform independent practice and the answers are included for the 20 sentences.
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Sentence Problems
Writing is tough to perfect. Help your class improve their writing skills by studying different sentence problems. This reference guide covers sentence fragments, run-ons, and misplaced modifiers, but that's just to start! There's a...
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Reading: Expressions Using the Word "Cold"
In this idiomatic expressions worksheet, students read a one page text that gives the meaning and origins of expressions using the word "cold" such as "cold fish", "cold shoulder" and "out in the cold". Students answer 5 matching...
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Reading: Expressions Using the Word Hot
In this word meanings learning exercise, students explore idiomatic expressions with the word hot. Students read a passage and then match six expressions to their proper meaning.