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Transitions – Review Worksheet
In this transitions review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they rewrite 7 sentences using the appropriate transitions.
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Total English Advanced: Use of Would and Childhood Memories
In this childhood memories learning exercise, students practice use of the word would as they complete a graphic organizer and then rewrite 8 sentences using would.
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Going on--Present Continuous Tense
For this present continuous tense worksheet, learners change the tense in 6 sentences to present continuous, rewrite the 6 sentences into 6 questions, and read 7 sentences and underline the sentences which use the present continuous...
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Adjective Clauses
In this adjective clauses worksheet, middle schoolers examine 9 pairs of sentences and rewrite each pair as 1 sentence using adjective clauses to connect them.
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Writing Transitions 2
In this writing transitions worksheet, students sharpen their writing skills as they read several examples and they rewrite 7 sentences using therefore, consequently, as a result, thus, and for this reason appropriately.
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Passive Voice: Theme Parks Around the World
In this passive voice instructional activity, students are given a sentence they must rewrite so that it is in the passive voice. Students complete this exercise with ten sentences.
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Grammar Mistakes Quiz
In this proofreading skills instructional activity, students examine 20 sentences and rewrite each of them correctly. Students also write 4 original sentences.
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The Passive/Active Form
In this passive and active voice worksheet, learners rewrite 18 sentences changing the verb in each one from an active voice verb to a passive voice verb.
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End of Unit Assessment: Drafting the Informative Consumer Guide
Not all sandwiches are edible. Scholars use a Quote Sandwich graphic organizer to draft the written content of their informative consumer guides. Additionally, they view a mini-lesson plan on formal writing.
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Drill - Simple Present and Present Continuous
In this grammar instructional activity, learners rewrite twenty sentences and change the verb tense in each one from simple present to present continuous or visa versa.
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Drill For Future Tense: "be" and "going to"
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite seventeen sentences by changing the present tense verbs to future tense primarily with the verbs be and going to.
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Singular-Plural Agreement
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite a paragraph correcting each error in singular-plural agreement by adding in is or are to make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Boring Verbs and Ordinary Adjectives
In this writing challenge worksheets, students rewrite 8 sentences replacing the noted verbs and adjectives with precise and interesting verbs and adjectives.
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Block Buster
Here is a unique and innovative game which will help your charges learn the important skill of proofreading and editing their own writing. The class is divided up into groups, and each group uses actual samples of writing from students...
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I've Got Your Number
Students assess the journalistic value of numbers used in newspaper articles while learning about the significance of the Hubble telescope's new data on the age of the universe.
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How to Write A+ Essays!
This lesson, which promises to improve the essays of your middle schoolers, contains a list of characteristics an essay should include. It breaks it down into the introduction, thesis statement, body, etc. There's also a list of things...
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Beatrix Potter and Alliteration
In this creative writing worksheet, learners utilize a variety of strategies to creatively write alliterations, tongue twisters, similes and finally an acrostic poem.
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Learning About Evaluation
Middle schoolers evaluate the essays of their classmates. In this evaluation instructional activity, students write two non-fiction essays on two different topics that they may choose. After a lecture on the aspects of the paper that...