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Baseball Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
While a nifty idea, this presentation is slightly difficult to follow and use. The PowerPoint involves an exploration of the parts of speech, including the use of nouns and adjectives, using animation, music, and interactive elements....
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Semicolons

For Students 9th - 12th
This one-page handout provides an overview and examples of how and when to use a semicolon. It does not include any questions or exercises; however, it does address relevant grammar rules at the secondary level.
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Vocabulary Development and Writing

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Engage pupils in practicing denotative and connotative strategies to understand particular words. They work in pairs and write a series of sentences using each word that has a positive connotation and negative connotation. Some example...
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Speech Acts

For Teachers Higher Ed
See various examples of connotations in phrases and semantics. Speech acts are displayed along with their contexts and meanings.
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Writing Skills: Fables

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Use fables as a fun way for English Language Learners to gain confidence and fluency in their reading and speaking skills. After reading a fable in class, they retell their story to a group of their peers. When this jigsaw activity is...
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Lesson Plan 18: Cleaning It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Careful proofreading is an important step in the writing process.  After guided practice using a provided worksheet that details common grammar concepts, young writers refer to the worksheet as they proofread their own work....
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Spanish Parts of Speech (Part 1)

For Students 6th - 12th
Check out this overview of the parts of speech that includes English and Spanish examples. Each part of speech is highlighted in a different color for clarity. There is information on each part of speech here, and you or your pupils can...
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Time Expressions with Hacer

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The verb hacer has many purposes in the Spanish language, one of which is as part of time expressions. Your class can learn how to use hacer in the preterite, present perfect continuous, and past perfect continuous to express different...
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Solve and Learn (Parts of Speech)

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this parts of speech worksheet, students choose the correct part of speech for words alone and words in sentences. Students complete 2 activities total.
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Good and Well

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this good and well usage worksheet, learners read for information and determine comprehension. In this fill in the blanks worksheet, students complete twenty-three sentences.
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Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand that a complex sentence combines two ideas. In this complex sentence lesson, students use subordinate conjunctions to combine simple sentences. Students complete a worksheet.
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Grammatical Items

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammatical items worksheet, students write a short sentence for each of the twenty terms listed and underline the particular grammatical item in each sentence.
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Rules for Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Teachers 8th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and fix comma splices and fused sentences in forty sentences. Students correct sentences, and also fix the punctuation within three paragraphs.
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Word Groups

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this word groups worksheet, middle schoolers complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz. Students read the four words in a group and choose the one that is somehow different from the others.
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ACROSTIC POETRY

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use newspapers or magazines to create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.
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Synonyms and Antonyms

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar instructional activity, students learn about synonyms and antonyms. They then use what they learned to answer 30 questions. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Clauses

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand that there are different types of clauses and define the differences. In this clauses lesson plan, students complete activities to practice works with different types of clauses.
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Writing with Alliteration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read Thank You for the Thistle and understand what alliteration is. In this alliteration lesson, students write sentences using alliteration. Students choose a letter of the alphabet and the class writes an alphabet book of...
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Student Mad Libs

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Learners investigate the different parts of speech by participating in a fill in the blank activity. In this Mad Libs lesson, students define the different parts of speech and discuss how they are used appropriately in sentences....
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Baseball Challenge!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This grammar PowerPoint allows students to review the concept of sentence structure in a baseball game format. The slides contain multiple choice questions based on the subject and predicate of sentences. As each students correctly...
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Editing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Are your writers ready to edit their papers? Present them with these editing tips including reading papers out loud, varying sentence openings and lengths, and using action verbs. While the tips are worthwhile, consider supplementing the...
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"Asking for Tourist Information" (Italian)

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explain and use verbal directions, recognize the prepositions used in a conversation, explore Italian art, and acquaint themselves with tourist services in Italy.
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Vivid Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review adjectives and play a game where students compete to see who can write the most adjectives for a given noun. They write a story about one topic and try to use a variety of adjectives in sequence tto describe a noun.
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The Adjective Toad

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to the story Toad, then the story is reread without any adjectives. The class discusses the importance of details in a story. Then the class creates a collaborative book following the same story pattern.

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