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Sports and Hobbies Collocations Pellmanism Game
In this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, shuffle a set of playing cards with sports and hobbies on each one. Students match up the action verbs, go, play, go to and do to each sport or hobby.
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Using Active Voice vs. Passive Verse in Writing
Need an active voice exercise? Learners rewrite a series of sentences to ensure that the subject of the sentence is doing the action. Beware the typos, especially in the title.
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Show! Don't Tell!
Young scholars write a descriptive paragraph. For this writing lesson, students define elaboration and discuss the characteristics of an elaborate paragraph. Young scholars write a paragraph that contains vivid adjectives, strong verbs...
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Worksheet 14: Vocabulary Review, Page 1
This basic vocabulary activity could be used in upper elementary and ESL classes. After reading short sentences, learners identify the meaning of a word in 10 questions.
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The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous?
For this present perfect simple or continuous worksheet, students first read about these 2 tenses, then decide on use and fill in blanks with the correct tense, using a given verb.
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Participial Adjectives
In this participial adjectives worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in the sentences with present of past participial forms of the verbs in parentheses.
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Borrowing Narrative Skills from Mr. Fletcher: Using a "Prompts in Reverse" Technique to Inspire Your Writers
Help your class find their writing voices with this lesson which uses the work of Ralph Fletcher to guide a "Prompt in Reverse" activity. Using the chapter "First Pen" from Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams, learners decipher what they...
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Scripting The Great Train Robbery
Take writing prompts to another level in this activity, which allows pupils to create scenes of dialogue based on the 1903 silent film, The Great Train Robbery. Useful for a language arts/history cross-curricular activity, the activity...
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Scene Writing: Literacy and Playwriting
Drama is ever-present in our daily lives and eloquently depicted on stage. Middle schoolers practice writing scenes based on different prompts and frameworks, and then perform those creative scenes for their classmates. The activities...
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Gerund Recognition Practice
In this gerund practice worksheet, learners discover what gerunds are as they read an informative instructional activity. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to identify gerunds and identify the types of nouns they...
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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Who or Whom? Which Interrogative Pronoun?
Who uses who and whom correctly? Practice this enigmatic interrogative pronoun question with this activity set. Middle schoolers read two pages that explain the proper use of "who," "whom," and the five interrogative pronouns. They...
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Gerund Phrase Recognition Practice
In this gerund phrases practice worksheet, learners discover what gerunds are as they read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to identify gerund phrases and identify the types of nouns they act...
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Intensive or Reflexive? How to Use Them
I myself am often confused by intensive pronouns but your pupils can work by themselves to gain understanding of reflective and intensive pronouns with this worksheet set. You yourself will benefit from the attached answer key.
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Who? What? Why? - Using Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns are an important part of learning the interrogative sentence form. Middle schoolers learn about using interrogative pronouns in sentence writing, and use what they read to answer the nineteen questions on the...
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Parts of Speech and Sentence Types Test
Test students' knowledge of parts of speech and sentence types with this 37 question multiple choice and matching quiz. Multiple choice questions provide examples that must be labeled as the correct part of speech or sentence type. The...
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Rhythm, Verse and Rhyme: COMPOSING A LIST POEM
Students are provided an opportunity for self-expression. They collaborate with a partner and compose a list poem. Students practice reading and writing skills. They explore lists and catalogues--both elements of poetry and practical...
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Comic Book Project
Students write a comic. In this writing instructional activity, students discuss comic books and why they continue to be so popular. Students create a comic book using an imaginary character. Students must present a problem and solution...
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Bad or Badly: A Troublesome Pair
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about the differences between adverbs and adjectives. They learn when to use "bad", an adjective, and when to use "badly", an adverb. Students then fill in the blanks in the 5 sentences using...
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Few and Less: A Confusing Pair
For this grammar worksheet, students learn the difference between the words "few" and "less" as well as adverbs and adjectives. They then answer the 14 questions on the page by inserting either few/fewer or less in the blank.
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Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
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The Passive
What happens when a painting is stolen? A presentation themed after Edvard Munch's The Scream is a great way to introduce the passive voice to your class.
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Active and Passive Voice
How are the active and passive voices different, and when should you use each one? The first page of this two-page worksheet contains the rules and several examples. On the second page, your grammarians will be able to put pen to paper...