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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence frames...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Vocabulary Fashion Show

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Inspired by Debra Frasier's clever vocabulary fair from her book, Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, individual students will imagine what a vocabulary fashion show would be like. Assuming the role of a fashion show announcer,...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Fragments in Short Passages

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Practice sentence skills by choosing the sentence fragment in each of 20 passage.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Subordinating Conjunctions [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
To review subordinating conjunctions, you'll find a list of common subordinating conjunctions and two exercises in which students practice their understanding. [PDF]
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 3 [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with map directions. Level 3 adjectives and adverbs are also emphasized on this assessment.
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Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Amazing Spelling Fleas

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Practice and play five games that build language skills like recognizing parts of speech, connecting images and words, spelling and completing words, and understanding simple sentences.
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Website
Other

Tutorial World: Primary 3 English

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for third-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems With Basic Parts of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Map Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will be challenged when they take this interactive grammar quiz? This quiz asks students to identify whether or not the sentence is grammatically correct. Come and check it out.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Grammar: To, Two, Too

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this activity, students are to read the sentence, and select the complete verb phrase from the options given in an arrow-down box. Java is required.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Comma Usage Enclosure

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students are asked to identify and type the verbs of sentences into the boxes provided. Java is required.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this instructional activity, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Camping Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Sports Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, Hoops, written by Robert Burleigh, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What",...
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Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Kim's Korner: Color Coded Parts of Speech Kinesthetic Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students can brush up on their knowledge of the parts of speech when they do this lesson. This site contains a kinesthetic lesson plan that caters to children with all types of learning styles.
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Other

Rhl School: English Basics: Real Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? This resource features examples of complete and incomplete sentences that students can identify and fix.