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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jabberwocky Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students complete a review of the parts of speech using a jabberwocky poem format. In this parts of speech and poetry lesson, students read a jabberwocky poem and identify parts of speech in the poem. Students list adjectives, verbs, and...
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Lesson Plan
Film English

The Conditioned

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Discover the lovely story of Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho with your class. Over the course of the lesson, pupils practice descriptive writing, write short narratives, collaborate in small groups, watch a powerful short film about Raimundo,...
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Lesson Plan
Poetry Out Loud

Poems Put to Use

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Why do we have to study poetry? Here is a lesson that demonstrates some of poetry's more practical and real-world applications for reluctant learners. Start by leading a brainstorming session about where poems or pieces of poems might be...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ACROSTIC POETRY

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners use newspapers or magazines to create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.
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Worksheet
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Counting Nouns Exercise 1

For Students 5th - 9th
In this noun worksheet students are given a list of nouns and are required to determine whether the word is a counting noun or not dependent on the context.
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Lesson Plan
Film English

Missing U

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the relationship between U and I with a video and related activities. First, pupils have some fun with the alphabet and discuss text message language. Next they practice coming up with words that have the same sound a I and U....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hailstones & Halibut Bones: Using Color to Teach Adjectives

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils write a color poem with a color, a noun, and their two adjectives in each line. They can start each line with the color or the noun, as long as the adjectives are put where they make sense.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Capitalization

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar learning exercise, students proofread, edit, and correct all the capitalization mistakes found in ten sentences. Students share their findings with their classmates.
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Lesson Plan
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By Heart

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
To memorize, or not to memorize: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the fear and anguish of committing a poem to memory, to endure the heartache, to shuffle off this fear, and face the stares of classmates with the hue...
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Handout
San José State University

The Quotation Mark

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Review where quotation marks belong and what they are used to indicate. From direct speech to in-text citations, young writers will find this worksheet quite useful. Several exercises at the bottom, along with a key, give learners...
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Worksheet
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Subordination Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar activity, students practice combining several short sentences in fifteen groups of sentences into one effective simple or complex sentence.
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Worksheet
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Capitalization and Punctuation Worksheet 2

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students correct the punctuation and capitalization errors in fifteen sentences. Students check their answers when their done.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Total English Advanced: The Right Preposition!

For Students 6th - 9th
In this preposition practice worksheet, learners correct 8 sentences that contain preposition errors. Students then write 8 sentences using the words in the word bank with prepositions that appropriately form complete sentences.