Southern Illinois University
Subject-Verb Agreement
Your writing lessons may be all about solid arguments, but in grammar, it's all about agreement! Learners practice identifying proper and improper verb form in a instructional activity focused on subject-verb agreement and indefinite...
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Verb Tenses
While offering a long list of questions involving verb conjugation, this activity would require teacher direction. Some of the instructions aren't clear. The 30 question review of verb usage would be a good review for middle school...
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ISTEP + Grade 6 Item Sampler
In this cross-curricular sampler of worksheets, students determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words, describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and...
iCivics
So You Think You Can Argue
What defines an argument, and how can someone properly formulate a counterargument? This resource provides two options—an interactive PowerPoint presentation or worksheet—that will support your learners as they begin to explore how to...
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 2
Use Langston Hughes's poem, "Words Like Freedom," to explore the concepts of freedom and liberty. Learners read the poem, determine the theme, and use the provided graphic organizer to examine the connotative and denotative meanings of...
iCivics
Drafting Board: Military Intervention
Should countries use their militaries to stop humanitarian crises in other countries? Learners make claims, organize their reasoning, and provide evidence for their arguments with this rich resource.
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Designing the New Silver Dollar
Learners create a design for a silver dollar based on a historical figure. In this historical instructional activity, students choose a person who impacted history to memorialize in a custom designed silver dollar. In addition, learners...
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Climate Chaos Week
Pupils research the pros and cons of wind farm technology as an alternative source of energy. The class is divided into two groups that should formulate a debate on each side of the argument. Groups use a debate guide to help develop...
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Context Clues Worksheet (Part 1)
Practice using context clues to determine the meaning of specific words. Learners read a sentence and write the meaning of the underlined word on the line below each sentence. By practicing this skill, class members will soon be ready to...
East Lyme Public Schools
To Declare or Not to Declare Independence?
Class members adopt the persona of real figures in American history, Patriots and Loyalists, research these individuals to determine their stance, and then debate the question of whether or not to declare independence from England.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Sound-Alike Words 2
In this listening and speaking skills worksheet, students will read 20 sentences each containing a misspelled homophone. Students will circle the misspelled homophone and write the correct sound alike word on the line.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Do They Regret It?
In this consolidating if structures instructional activity, students complete 8 sentences so that they mean the same thing that matching sentences mean. Students also write 3 if clauses to accompany the 3 scenarios on the instructional...
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Using Present Perfect Continuous
In this present perfect continuous verbs activity, learners fill in the blanks in 20 sentences with 1 of the verbs ending in -ing listed in the word bank. Students also write their own sentences using have or has and present continuous...
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students correct or revise any ambiguous or inappropriate pronoun-antecedent errors found in the sentences given. They review the attached sheet for assistance with the activity. There are 20 sentences to fix.
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Verb Tenses Test
In this verb tense worksheet, students complete a 30 question test that includes making sentence negations by filling in the blank with the proper form of the given word. They fill in blanks using the proper form of the given word, and...
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Verb Tenses
In this verb tenses practice learning exercise, students fill in the blanks in 15 sentences with the correct form of the verb given in parentheses and use an appropriate form of the verbs in parentheses to complete a narrative paragraphs...
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Verb Tenses
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 20 examples with the proper form of the given verbs. They write a complete sentence using two clauses whenever possible using the expressions that are given in the last 10...
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Verb Tenses
In these verb tenses worksheets, students read the 20 sentences and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given verb. Students then write a complete sentence using the expressions in italics for the 9 examples.
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Exercise 1: Subject-verb Agreement
For this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb in parentheses in twenty-eight sentences that makes each grammatically correct.
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It's Your Opinion
Everyone has a different opinion about the characters they read about in books. Have your class explore forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it as they read and discuss what they think about a particular character. They...
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Discussion Web: Ender's Game
Designed to encourage readers to consider both sides of of the question of whether Ender is responsible for the death of all the buggers, individuals search for examples from Orson Scott Card's popular science fiction novel, Ender's Game...
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Phineas Gage: Four Corners Discussion Strategy
How far do your pupils think we should go in the name of science? Class members respond to questions relating to chapter three of Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science and then participate in a four corners...
Aspen Institute
The Voice That Challenged a Nation
Included here are step-by-step instructions for conducting a close reading of The Voice That Challenged a Nation by Russell Freedman. After an individual and class reading, class members read carefully through the text excerpt,...
EngageNY
Interpreting and Connecting Information: Creating a Cascading Consequence Chart Using Frightful’s Mountain
Decisions, decisions. Scholars take a close look at making decisions by discussing the character Sam in chapters one through eight of Frightful’s Mountain. Partners discuss whether Sam should interact with Frightful and then complete a...
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