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Abbreviations and Acronyms in Newspapers
Students investigate the purpose and meaning of common abbreviations and acronyms by examining them in newspapers.
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Abbreviations
In this grammar worksheet, students read and edit six sentences by correcting the abbreviations and acronyms within the sentence. Additionally, students match five abbreviations with their meaning.
Curated OER
Dr Who: Acronyms
Students explore abbreviations and acronyms. Students examine the difference between the two types. Students complete a worksheet, sorting words. They write a creative script containing abbreviations and acronyms.
Curated OER
Spelling Connections Grade 6: Acronyms and Abbreviations
In this abbreviations and acronyms worksheet, middle schoolers analyze 9 pictures and write the acronym or abbreviation suggested by each. Students then proofread a list of 12 abbreviations and acronyms and write them correctly. There is...
Curated OER
E-mail Abbreviations
Students identify an abbreviation or acronym for communication purposes. Students write various messages using each correctly. Students make a list of the most common abbreviation and acronyms used currently.
Curated OER
Spelling: Abbreviations and Acronyms
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 20 abbreviations and acronyms. Parents are given 2 suggested activities to help students study the words.
Write.com
Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
Pupils change words or phrases into the correct abbreviation, acronym or initialism in ten sample sentences. After rewriting the word or phrase, they must identify whether it is an abbreviation, acronym or initialism. For...
Curated OER
Abbreviations Quiz
Fifth graders complete an online activity in which they create quizzes for each other on abbreviations and acronyms.
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Effective Writing is More Than a Five Paragraph Essay
Groups become experts in one aspect of the six traits of writing, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, jigsaw, and teach others about their trait. Writers then focus on these traits as they compose a persuasive essay about a person they...
Curated OER
Topic Worksheet
In this Internet research worksheet, learners select topics to research and then respond to 7 short answer questions that require them to analyze searches they conduct online regarding their topics.
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Business Writing Genres
In this grammar instructional activity, students, working with a partner, read eighteen sentences to each other filling in an adjective in each blank.
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An Arctic Expedition
Young scholars become familiar with the Arctic region and the difficulties of scientific research by designing and developing an expedition to an "unknown" place. They use the library and the Internet in order to do their research. ...
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Editing for AP (and Newspaper's) style
Learners edit and revise a news story picked out by the teacher. For this editing lesson plan, high schoolers edit in AP style and then revise the story. It should have no errors in the end.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Learn when and how to use common abbreviations and acronyms.
Other
Acronym Finder: Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary
Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it....
Can Teach
Can Teach: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Students can find and analyze different abbreviations and acronyms using newspapers. An online abbreviation and acronym dictionary is linked to this lesson plan for 4th grade.
Other
Pc.net: Chat Slang: Abbreviations and Acronyms Used Online
A glossary of abbreviations and acronym often used in email, text messaging, chat or other online communication
English Club
English Club: Abbreviations Quiz
An interactive abbreviations assessment is found on this page. Acronym, initialism, and contraction concepts are included on this assessment.
English Club
English Club: Abbreviations: Acronyms
This EnglishClub tutorial defines the term acronym, a type of abbreviation, and then provides several examples of acronyms.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Abbreviations
This lesson focuses on abbreviations including an introduction to abbreviations with examples, why they are used, links to abbreviation activities, and a summary of the abbreviation information in text format. It also provides a...
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
This page focuses on Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms including definitions for each. It also provides links to lists of abbreviations, etc. by category including Titles of Literary Works, Books of the Bible, Legal Terms and...
English Club
English Club: Abbreviations: Shortenings
This EnglishClub reference page provides the definition for "abbreviation" and then provides a chart with examples of abbreviations.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Abbreviations
This site focuses on abbreviations including definitions, acronyms and initialisms, abbreviations for courtesy titles and academic degrees, Latin abbreviations, and other common abbreviations including time and dates, places, and units...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 4th Grade
This article focuses on 4th-grade spelling words which include the following: abbreviations and acronyms, suffixes, capitalization, and silent letters.