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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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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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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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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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Comic Book Project
Students write a comic. In this writing lesson, 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 in their comic.
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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...
Shoop English
Literature Terms Activity
Designed to be used with an independent reading book, this activity provides practice with identifying and explaining literary terms. While they read, individuals find instances of literary devices and elements in use in their books....
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It's Indirect: Using Indirect Objects
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about using indirect objects in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 6 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page in the packet.
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Correlative Conjunctions
Young scholars identify correlative conjunctions in sentences and then rewrite pairs of sentences as a single sentence with correlative conjunctions. They practice diagramming sentences of various sentence patterns and then write a...
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Reflected: Using Reflexive pronouns
In this grammar learning exercise, students learn about reflexive pronouns in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 7 questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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Learning to Use Indefinite Pronouns
In this grammar worksheet, students learn to use indefinite pronouns in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 8 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Yikes! Wow! An Interjection
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about interjections. They then use what they learned to answer the 14 interjection questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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I See and I Think (It's A Wonderful World)
Students analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities...
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Comic Book Project
Students write a fictional story into a comic book format. In this creative writing lesson, students analyze example comics and discuss the format. Students create a comic book using imaginary characters that find a solution to a problem.
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Writing Mythological Narratives
Students compose a creative writing piece based on a painting of a mythological scene. In this creative writing lesson, students write about the scene in the painting and tie in their original stories into tales from the life of the...
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Five Paragraph Essay
Eighth graders are introduced to the mechanics of writing a standard-form essay. They draft, edit and polish a five-paragraph essay about spending the day as an animal of their choice.
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Reduction of Adverbs Clauses of Reason and Contrast: Worksheet #2
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about reducing adverb clauses to adverbial phrases. They then rewrite 3 sentences on their own using the information they learned.
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Parts of Speech Matching
In this parts of speech review worksheet, learners match the 8 parts of speech to the appropriate definition by drawing lines to connect the pairs.
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ABC Book of Tongue Twisters
Students construct sentences using alliteration. For this phonemic awareness lesson, students listen to a read aloud such as Some Smug Slug and identify alliteration. Students write their own sentences using alliteration.
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Martha, My Dear: A Lesson About Imperatives
In this song lesson learning exercise, students learn about the song Martha, My Dear by The Beatles. Teachers explain the song background and the grammar in the song. The class answers 6 questions while listening to the song and after...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Balloon Verb Game
Fun game that challenges students to choose which words are verbs. Exercise students' abilities to identify verbs.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use interactive...