Wouldn't it be great to live an a community without pain, without danger? Such a society is the goal of the community in The Giver. Using Lois Lowry's dystopian novel as the core text, class members read primary source materials about...

New ReviewIf, then, Else is not only a basic programming language command, it is also the basis for conditional statements used in writing. Middle schoolers try to craft conditional statements with a card sort activity and then collaborate on a...

Being an advertising director requires more than the ability to craft ads for products and services. The president of an advertising, design, and marketing agency details what he believes are the skills essential to becoming an...

Interrogatives—who, what, where, when, why, and how—are the focus of a grammar worksheet that reinforces writing questions and using auxiliary verbs. 

If you listen to this song, you will learn how to write a conditional sentence is the conditional statement you can use to begin your lesson on conditionals. The video uses songs and charmingly drawn stick figures to depict multiple...

Eighth grades can master the ELA Common Core standards! Show your learners the connection between classroom activities and assignments and the standards with this set of "I Can" statement posters. Each standard has been rewritten as an...

How close are your eighth graders to mastering the ELA Common Core standards? Keep an eye on progress with these charts, which include every eighth grade identifier and full standard text. As you move through the year and teach, reteach,...

As everybody knows, pronouns must match their antecedents. Except for those special ones like everybody, neither, one and several others. These exceptions are the focus of a short activity that first models the irregularities and then...

Young grammarians locate pronoun agreement errors, in number, gender, and/or person, in a series of sentences, and then re-write the sentences correcting the errors.

What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities. 

Finish your homework! Kids work on imperative sentences with a grammar worksheet, which also focuses on future progressive tense (going to). After they use a word bank to write instructions for a person going on a trip, they fill in the...

Study the future progressive tense and other ways to express what will (or won't) happen. After completing affirmative and negative sentences in the imperative form, kids work on different exercises with going to and will or won't.

Finally, a handout that accurately describes the difference between indicative, imperative, and subjunctive verb tenses! Complete with sentences, examples, and even some humor. Never be confused again!

Pronouns used as indirect objects are the focus of this short worksheet that asks learners to fill in the correct pronoun.

Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...

Helpful as a print-out or electronic activity, this verb tense activity prompts middle and high schoolers to fill in 20 missing first conditional verbs in sentences. They can check their answers and receive hints. The activity would be a...

Which verb tenses can you use when writing with the conditional tense? Clear up the common mistakes with this second conditional worksheet. Young writers choose the correct verb tense to complete a sentence. They choose from four...

What is the conditional tense? English language learners choose one of three multiple choice options to complete a sentence in the conditional tense. There are 10 questions, and an answer sheet is provided.