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Unleash Your Inner Editor

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a writing project for which participants write an entire novel in a single month. If you have decided to this in your class, this resource will be useful for you. This is an editing activity...
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Elaboration, Revision, and Proofreading

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Designed to help writers strengthen their elaboration, revision, and proofreading skills, this 48-page workbook is packed with information about and exercises in personal, narrative, persuasive, and report writing.
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ESL Picture/Idiom Matching Worksheet

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
In this ESL picture to idiom matching worksheet, students examine 7 small clip art images before matching them to the idioms they best represent. They work with idioms such as "blood is thicker than water," and "as you make your bed, so...
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Speaking Practice

For Students K - Higher Ed
Conversational language is something that both young learners and adults learning English need to practice. This short activity, with 13 prompts, can help learners develop this skill. The sentence frames included on this worksheet are...
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Word Choice

For Students 7th - 12th
Use vocabulary in context by choosing the correct word to complete the sentence. Briefly and accurately develop higher-level verbage. Can be used as a quiz, test, or quick exercise.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
"Timid, scared, terrified." High school scholars examine words, their denotations and connotations, in a series of exercises that use lines from Shakespeare to explore figurative language and word relationships. Participants then...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.6

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Here's an exercise designed for the Common Core Literacy Standard L.11-12.6 that asks learners to demonstrate their ability to put together all they have learned about language. The first activity is based on a passage from Rosencrantz...
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with P

For Students 10th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. They are challenged by the choices which all start with the letter "p."
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2-Grade 8 (2010)

For Students 9th - 11th
Get ready for state testing with this resource, which focuses on listening and writing skills. While a complete description of the writing assignment is provided here, the listening portion is not included. You could use the graphic...
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Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...
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Verb Review 1 (Present/Past)

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
Using a fill-in-the-blank format learners explore the use of present/past/future verbs. This 41-question activity upper elementary and older students in an ESL class would get a good background in the use of verbs.
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Present, Present Progressive and Past Tense Practice

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This activity, which was designed for use in an ESL setting, focuses on the present, present progressive and past verb tense. The types of sentences used would be appropriate for older students. There are 20 questions.
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Simple Present / Present Progressive

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
Using a fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice format, this activity gives students a chance to practice their skills using the simple present tense of a verb and present progressive. With 20 questions, and a varied format, this worksheet...
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Writing Questions

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
While this activity involving formulating questions was designed for older ESL students, it could be modified for use in upper elementary. Using this 15 questions instructional activity, students practice taking information and forming a...
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Present Perfect Interview (Since/For)

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
While these questions are tailored for use with a specific class, they could be rewritten for use with any students in the upper grades. The 12 questions provide a short answer format for practicing question formation and the use of the...
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Clauses: The Trilogy

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
This activity could provide a good review of noun, adjective and adverb clauses for learners from upper elementary to adult ESL classes. Using the 20 question activity, students complete sentences and identify the correct clause type.
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Important Events

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this informative worksheet, students, working in groups, formulate 7 questions about important events and discoveries and then write the answers to their questions on the lines provided. Students change the verb in parentheses to its...
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Business Questions (1)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this English worksheet, students, with a partner, interview their partner about several topics including general information, motivation for studying English and personal language learning experiences.
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Poems about Places

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
In this Poems about places activity, students read short biographies and poems of 4 selected poets. Students discuss each poem at length, and complete short answer essay questions.
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Quiz 3A: Expressions of Quantity

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
As part of this activity focusing on the use of the expressions all of, almost all of, most of, some of and none of, students evaluate groups of symbols to identify the information missing. In the first part of this 14 question activity,...
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Past Versus Present Perfect

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
Using this 15 question activity learners practice using the past and present perfect forms of verbs. This would be a great learning exercise for use with students in both upper elementary and older grades.
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Question Review

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
Younger and older ELL students could benefit from an exploration of how to change a statement to a question. Using this 8 question activity learners can practice writing questions after being given pertinent information.
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Questions With the Verb

For Students 2nd - Higher Ed
Learning how to change a statement into a question is an important skill for learners to master. Using this 12 question worksheet, elementary and older ESL learners practice this skill.

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