National First Ladies' Library
Science: The Purloined Letter
Students examine Edgar Allan Poe's "the Purloined Letter" from the perspective of a profiler. To sharpen search procedures, they examine the text and make lists of items and places in the house that were searched. Then students discuss...
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Narrative Literature Response Letters
Third graders write endings to a story that has already been written. They offer alternative endings in their version. The activity includes a rubric that is to be given to the students in order that they know the requirements.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Students read and discuss the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." They participate as a group in performing the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom play and complete a variety of activity cards that deal with different avenues of the book. Adjectives...
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The Name Game
For this grammar worksheet, learners write acrostic poems using the first 5 letters of their first and last names and provide adverbs and propositions for each letter. Then they write sentences for each word.
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Adverb Clauses Exercises
In this adverb clause learning exercise, students use logical verb clauses to complete the first 5 sentences. They complete 5 sentences with a noun clause using when, where, whether, if, or why. They complete the last 5 sentences with an...
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Opposites
In this nouns and pronouns worksheet, students write the opposite of 12 words or phrases. Students are given a hint, in that the first letter of the opposite word is given, as are the number of letters needed.
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Complete Sentences
For this subject and predicate worksheet, students underline the predicate in 5 sentences, the subject and draw a box around the predicate and writes three complete sentences of their own underlining the subject and circling the predicate.
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Worksheet 15. Word Search Game
For this word search worksheet, students find the 6 words in the puzzle and circle them. The clues are located at the bottom of the page and the first letter of each word is highlighted in gray.
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One Word Substitution 26
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 10 vocabulary terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words...
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Separating Run-together Sentences With a Period
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten pairs of run-on sentences into two complete sentences each by utilizing periods and capital letters.
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Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students find the definition of the nouns in column A of a table. They write the letter of the definition from column B on the blank line next to the word. They work with nouns such as coworker,...
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Worksheet 13. Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary worksheet, students write the letter of the sentence that completes each conversation correctly. There are 6 conversations to complete.
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Worksheet 9. Verbs: Present and Past
In this verb worksheet, students complete the conversations on the page by choosing the correct phrase and writing the letter in the blank space in the conversation. There are 6 conversations to complete on this worksheet.
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Unit 3: Subject-Verb Agreement
In this subject-verb agreement worksheet, students read 5 sentences and fill in 9 blanks with the appropriate multiple choice answer that completes each one grammatically correct. Students circle the letter in front of each of their...
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Nouns and Pronouns: Opposites
In this opposites instructional activity, students use their vocabulary skills to identify words opposite in meaning from the 12 listed. The first letter of each opposite answer is listed.
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Practice With Nouns
In this nouns activity, students fill in blanks in sentences with appropriate nouns. Students are given the 1st letter of each noun in each sentence.
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Spelling List 5: Sight Words, "-ight" Pattern, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, -ight pattern, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Line Jumping: Differenciation of Words
Students participate in a line jumping game in which they have to decide what part of speech the word is. They can practice the difference between adjectives and nouns or nouns and verbs.
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Fall
Students read "Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf" then they brainstorm words about fall that begin with the letters F, A, and L. They compose and decorate their own acrostic poem then they write a Fall story and complete a final copy in the computer...
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Two-Word Verb Exercise 2
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in twenty-five blanks with composite verbs including get up, get off, get over, get even, get around and get through.
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Adjectives: Moods
In this ESL activity learning exercise, students fill in the missing letters in 5 adjectives and then draw a line from each word to the picture that matches it. A word bank is provided.
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Big, Bigger, Biggest - Comparatives
In this comparatives instructional activity, the students read a description about comparatives and superlatives. Students fill in the comparative and superlative adjectives in a table for 12 adjectives and fix sentences by filling...
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Adjectives
In this adjectives instructional activity, students are given 5 different kinds of examples of adjectives. Students read the different kinds of adjectives and then identify them in 3 sentences.
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Conjunctive Adverbs
In this conjunctive adverbs worksheet, students choose the sentence that is written correctly containing conjunctive adverbs. Students complete 5 problems.