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Redistricting: Drawing the Lines
Difficult redistricting concepts are covered in a context that will make it understandable to your government scholars. They begin with a KWL on the term redistricting and then watch a video to answer some questions. They analyze...
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Greenhouse Gasses
Students study words in the news. They explore vocabulary including "climate change" and discuss its meanings and related meanings. They read a text about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions and answer questions. They complete...
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Scriptwriting Skill Module
Students identify and analyze conflicts in plots. In this conflict lesson students recall stories, novels and movies they've read or seen and discuss the conflicts contained therein. They then complete some written exercises to...
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Worksheet 8: There Is/Are
This simple worksheet has students practice comprehension and vocabulary skills. Learners also review the use of there is and there are in the 11 true and false questions. This activity would be appropriate for lower elementary or ESL...
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Newspapers in the Digital Age
Is journalism more or less reliable with the influx of Internet sources? Learners investigate the issues of freedom of speech, journalistic ethics, and social responsibility in the age of Twitter and Facebook. After examining the...
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Using Descriptive Language
Students examine the use of adjectives in a product review, then write their own descriptive review. In this writing and word usage lesson, students first analyze the choice of adjectives in a New York Times article about the iPhone,...
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Family
For this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate family or extended family member to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Speak & Talk
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate action verb, speak or talk, to place in ten sentences making each one grammatically correct.
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Seem & Look like
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate helping verb, seem or look like, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Achieve, Cope & Manage
In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate action verb, achieve/cope/manage, to put in ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Antonyms and Synonyms
For this antonyms and synonyms worksheet, students review and analyze eighteen sets of words and choose whether they are antonyms or synonyms.
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Close and Shut
Open and closed - or open and shut? Using context clues in ten multiple choice questions, students choose whether they should use "closed" or "shut" to fill in the blank. This activity could be great addition to a vocabulary lesson in a...
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End & Finish
For this noun/verb worksheet, students choose the appropriate noun, end or finish, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Say and Tell
In this grammar activity, students read sixteen sentences and choose the correct word, say or tell, that makes each sentence grammatically correct.
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Rob & Steal
In this action verb worksheet, students choose the appropriate action verb in ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech
Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...
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Worksheet 9: Reading: Global Warming
Using an interesting reading passage about global warming, learners answer true and false questions related to the topic. This 6 question activity could be used in upper elementary or as part of an ESL lesson.