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Raiders 1 Lesson Plan
Students review vocabulary words on the Internet. They watch a movie in order to sequence events.
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The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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Verbs Rule!
Students practice writing and speaking using conventional grammar, usage, and sentence structure. Students practice as a whole class and then demonstrate their knowledge in written activities. Handouts and worksheets are imbedded within...
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Learning About Sentence Structure
What does a sentence need? A subject and a verb, and some adverbs and adjectives to make it more interesting! After examining sentence structure together, class members can practice adding adverbs and adjectives to short sentences...
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TPR is a Valuable Tool!
Students, at the beginning ESL proficiency level, participate in Total Physical Response activities in order to learn the present continuous and past tense, sentence structure and word order in English.
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The Sequential Teaching of Writing Skills at Grade Eight
Eighth graders are introduced to the techniques to write properly. As a class, they practice writing complete sentences and discover how to avoid run-on sentences. In groups, they review action and state of being verbs and practice...
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Movie Crossword
For this adjective worksheet, students employ the crossword clues to help them determine which adjectives listed in the word bank accurately describe the types of movies presented.
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Grammar Quest
Young scholars participate in an activity that helps them to explain parts of speech and distinguish between them. They also use different locomotor skills in a variety of ways.
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
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December 5
In this role-playing activity, students view and discuss what seven people are doing in seven pictures. Students then answer what each person is doing by answering seven multiple choice questions.
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"Robin Hood"
In this "Robin Hood" worksheet, learners, with a partner, discuss the differences in meaning between rob and steal, match eight words associated with Robin Hood and match six words/phrases with their proper definitions.
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ESOL Obtain Employment
Students discuss the items needed to be prepared for a job interview. They generate a list of action verbs needed to prepare a resume of their own. They construct a cover letter and match it to an ad in the newspaper.
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Adverbs - 6 Foolproof Steps
Young scholars review rules of grammar, specifically those that help find adverbs in a sentence. They practice finding the adverbs in a worksheet of sample sentences.
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REPASO2
In this ESL action words instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing things. Students match the pictures to the verbs that describe them. The meaning of the page title is not clear.
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A Unique Circus
In this vocabulary worksheet, students chose the word that will best fit in the sentence from the word bank. Students will chose between, verbs and nouns to complete their worksheet.
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Language Arts Review Quiz #6
In this language arts review worksheet, students complete 6 exercises: students correct 2 sentences with errors, circle action words, circle words that go together, write 3 words in the 'ick' family, and put words in alphabetical order.
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Direct Object Pronouns
What is a direct object pronoun and how do you use one? After looking at several examples, give your Spanish speakers an opportunity to practice. Can they place the direct object pronoun correctly in the sentence provided? Two separate...
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Passive Voice
Often deemed the weak voice, the passive voice is often a stylistic choice in many narratives. This presentation, created by Prairie View A&M University, details the pros and cons of using the passive voice.
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Parts of Speech and Sentence Types Test
Test students' knowledge of parts of speech and sentence types with this 37 question multiple choice and matching quiz. Multiple choice questions provide examples that must be labeled as the correct part of speech or sentence type. The...
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Revising Pronouns and Antecedents
Students choose better pronouns to use in their writing. In this pronouns in writing lesson, students identify pronouns in their writing, then replace second person pronouns to improve their writing.
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Realism and Fantasy
Second graders listen to the story, Bruno the Baker, where some parts seem real and some seem fake. They must identify the parts of the story as realism or fantasy. An interesting way to teach young readers these two concepts.
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers
This handout gives an overview of the passive and active voices as well as pointing out that the grammar checkers in word processing programs mark sentences written in the passive voice as incorrect. While this is not an interactive...
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Figurative Language Packet
A definitive resource for your figurative language unit includes several worksheets and activities to reinforce writing skills. It addresses poetic elements such as simile and metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idioms, and...
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Who? What? When? Where? Asking Questions
Sixth graders interview Veterans or role play to answer who, what, where, when questions. In this Veteran's Day questioning activity, 6th graders learn about the events in the military service of veterans. Students may simulate...