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Comparative And Superlative Adjectives
Third graders watch "School House Rocks" video about adjectives. They discuss how adjectives both describe and compare things. They determine the difference between comparative and superlative adjectives and how to add "er" or "est" to...
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Stylistic Aspects of Composition
Young scholars explore verbs. They list and demonstrate verbs. Students discuss words that connote different meanings. They write paragraphs based on their word selection. Young scholars share their paragraphs with the class.
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Agreement In Spanish
Eighth graders engage in a lesson that is about the use of adjectives in advertising to communicate to the public. They look at advertisements and identify the different adjectives used in the text while determining the effectiveness of...
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Creative Dialogues en Espanol
Students create a character that could be included in a dialog from stories about Isabel. They use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the characters. Students work in groups to create a new character and draw an illustration. They...
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Mixed Prepositions Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this mixed prepositions multiple choice worksheet, students choose the best response for 10 questions. They determine which words best fits the sentences.
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Understanding Quantities 2
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to use appropriate nouns when describing quantities. Students read the beginning of a phrase and add an appropriate noun. Example: A glass of ___
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Adjectives and Synonyms 1- Test Your Vocabulary Skills
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students read the definitions of the word "synonym" at the top of the page before looking at a list of 15 words. They choose an adjective from the word bank that is a synonym for each word and write...
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Prepositions: Mixed Prepositions 1
In this grammar worksheet, student read sentences and choose the best preposition to fill in the blank. Preposition choices are "at", "on" or "in".
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Prepositions: Mixed Prepositions 2
For this grammar worksheet, students read short sentences and choose the best preposition to fill in the blank. More than one response may be acceptable, but students are told to choose the best one.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills - Abstract Nouns
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn that an abstract noun is a noun that does not have a physical form. Students write abstract nouns to match twenty adjectives.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills- Abstract Nouns 2
In this vocabulary worksheet, pupils recall that an abstract noun is a noun that does not have a physical form. Students write a matching abstract noun for a list of twenty adjectives.
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Understanding and Identifying Verbs
Students practice identifying the subject and verbs in sentences. In this verb lesson, students can explain the difference between active and passive verbs. Students complete a grade appropriate work sheet.
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BE THE KIWI: Day 8 Bible Study
Students explore the Maori culture. In this bible studies lesson plan, students will journal and explore traditional Maori greetings and social customs before examining the Biblical culture greetings.
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Take A Verb Back In Time
Students write a story that takes place in the past and include regular and irregular verbs. In this verbs lesson plan, students identify the verbs after they write their story.
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Friends
Eighth graders write descriptively by using various adjectives in describing a friend to an English speaking pen-pal.
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Words in the News Hopes and Fears for Shuttle Discovery
Learners participate in vocabulary building activities including worksheets before reading an online article. They write a space travel diary of their first visit to outer space in a journal entry.
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Understanding the Indoor Environment
Students create and deliver speeches about why their school should have an Indoor Air Quality team. In this speeches lesson plan, students make presentations to school board members about having an IAQ team.
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Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English Session One (2010)
In this Regents High School Comprehensive Examination worksheet, pupils listen to a speech about Peace Corps volunteers. Then they answer reading comprehension questions, and write an article about Peace Corps volunteers and their...
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Religious Revival: The American Response to the Cold War
Learners examine the impact of religion on the Cold War. In this Cold War instructional activity, students analyze speeches delivered by Lenin, Truman, and Graham regarding the role of religion in society. As a culminating activity,...
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Acting Like a Bunch of Animals: Fables and Human
The video "The Tales of Aesop" traces for viewers the history of fables and identifies their characteristics. The class then goes to the web site "The Fisherman and the Little Fish" where they examine the classic and a modern version of...
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The ABC's of the Three Little Pigs
Writers use varied sentence patterns. They listen to the story of Cinderella rewritten so that each sentence starts with the next letter of the alphabet. They create their own version of The Three Little Pigs using the same concept.
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Using Word Maps to Expand Vocabulary
Looking for a good lesson on dictionary and word definition skills? The lesson presented here is for you! In it, learners utilize a worksheet, embedded in the plan, to record a word's definition(s), etymology, multiple meanings,...
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Understanding and Using Root Words to Expand Vocabulary
Middle schoolers engage in a activity which reminds them that root words indicate the base meaning of a word, and that those roots are found in many different words that have similar meanings. Pairs of pupils use construction paper and...
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Dragonwings: Evaluate Chapters 10-12
As your class finishes the novel Dragonwings, use these culminating projects. A vocabulary list is given for chapters eleven and twelve and either an epitaph or letter activity concludes the book. The final project consists of creating a...