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Student Opinion: Who Inspires You?
Inspire your class to write about role models and personal heroes with this resource from The Learning Network. Class members read a New York Times article excerpt about basketball star Jeremy Lin and how he inspired the author. After...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Writing Prompts for Middle School
Scratching your head when it comes to engaging writing prompts? Check out a list of prompts designed for middle school classes, which includes topics for persuasive writing, expository writing, how-to essays, personal narratives, and...
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Final Papers: Writing Prompts for Evaluating Team and Individual Performance
To be used in connection with a group project or at the end of a unit, this handout contains two essay writing prompts. The first prompt asks a group of learners to work together to evaluate their groups' performance as well as each...
St. John-Endicott Schools
End of Year Reflection Questions
Wrap up your course by asking students to reflect and consider some of the most meaningful and important moments from the year. This document includes 15 different reflection questions, from identifying a best piece of writing or an...
California Education Partners
Hope Despair Memory
Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" provides ninth graders an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to analyze complex text. Individuals craft an essay that draws evidence from the text of the speech to show how Wiesel develops...
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Who Are the People in Your Family?
In this family members worksheet, students view and study eight pictures in order to choose the appropriate answer to eight multiple choice questions involving naming specific family members.
Global Oneness Project
The Nature of Happiness
The U.S. Constitution states that the pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right. The United Nations' Global Happiness Index ranks countries according to the happiness of its citizens. As part of a discussion of the nature of...
WE Charity
Activity: Exploring the Four Leadership Styles
Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa were some of the greatest leaders of all time; what made them so great? Scholars discover the qualities of effective leaders using teen leadership activities. Learners complete an...
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Lost Person Role-play
In this role play worksheet, students assume the role of a private detective and a customer trying to find a missing person. Students work with 1 partner.
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Family Members-- Who Am I?
In this ESL family members vocabulary worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict different members of a family. Students read the question by each picture and select the correct name of the family member from 4 choices.
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Who Do You Live With?
In this family worksheet, students will analyze the concept of a family and its components. Students will respond to 7 questions and write an answer according to the picture presented.
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ESL Mi Familia- Family Identification Worksheet
In this Spanish/English family member identification matching activity, students match 7 black and white clip art pictures of family members to their Spanish and English names.
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Family- Who Am I?
In this ESL vocabulary building worksheet, students examine 7 pictures of family members and read the clue. Students select the correct answer from 4 choices. Example: My auntie's son is my ...(cousin).
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ESL Family Member Matching Worksheet
In this ESL family member activity, students examine 6 pictures of family members. They match the pictures to the words that name them such as mother, brother, sister, and father.
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December 5
In this role-playing worksheet, students view and discuss what seven people are doing in seven pictures. Students then answer what each person is doing by answering seven multiple choice questions.
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ESL Asking Questions About Family Fill in the Blank Worksheet
In this ESL writing questions about families instructional activity, student fill in the blanks with questions that can be answered with the given statement. They complete 8 examples using the clip art pictures that accompany each one.
E Reading Worksheets
Fact and Opinion - Worksheet: 3
How can you prove a fact? With supporting evidence, of course. Learners read 25 statements and determine if it is fact or opinion. Then, if the statement is a fact, youngsters write a sentence explaining how they can prove it.
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ESL- I Can... Questions Fill In the Blank Worksheet
In this ESL telling what I can do fill in the blank worksheet, student look 8 small clip art pictures of students in action before writing a question that asks if they can perform the action. They see the answer to the question below the...
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Write the Question
In this ESL food vocabulary learning exercise, students examine 7 pictures of food. Students read the sentence and write a question that will go with it.
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Like Water for Chocolate: Family Tradition
Engage young writers in family tradition with this writing assignment for Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. Using sensory details, learners write a narrative about a family tradition involving food. Scholars also talk with...
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Family Members
In this ESL family worksheet, students will focus on the members of a family. Students will complete 7 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology from the secondary column.
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Writing Practice: Name the Pictures
For this picture naming worksheet, students study 7 pictures and, using a picture name, answer the question. Example: What is this item of clothing? (It is a sock.) This is intended for ESL students.
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Future Tense: Going To
In this future tense worksheet, students will practice using the phrase, "Going to." Students will write 8 sentences with the time frame in the future that is provided for each question.
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Jobs
In this occupations worksheet, students match up ten pictures of people doing various jobs to their actual professions in writing.