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Rhythm, Verse and Rhyme: COMPOSING A LIST POEM

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Learners are provided an opportunity for self-expression. They collaborate with a partner and compose a list poem. Students practice reading and writing skills. They explore lists and catalogues--both elements of poetry and practical...
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Lesson Two: Writing Letters in Code

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Combine your friendly letter lesson, grammar lesson, and technology lesson with this fun activity! Young writers compose letters to friends, and then convert the text to Webdings font. Their friends then decode the letter based on a key....
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Like Water for Chocolate: Family Tradition

For Students 9th - 12th
Engage young writers in family tradition with this writing assignment for Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. Using sensory details, learners write a narrative about a family tradition involving food. Scholars also talk with...
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Narrative Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A basic lesson on personal narrative writing is here for you. In it, learners are asked to imagine they're going to share an experience of their own with someone who did not participate in that experience. They verbally tell the story to...
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My Dream Job

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss the importance of having an interesting and fulfilling job. Working in small groups, students discuss different occupations and the skills and tools related to those occupations. Continuing in groups, individual...
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Good and Well

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this good and well usage worksheet, students read for information and determine comprehension. In this fill in the blanks worksheet, students complete twenty-three sentences.
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Reading Fiction: Analyzing Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate sentence construction in fiction.  In this sentence construction lesson, students examine examples of fiction work and discover why sentences are a certain length.  Students create their own passages...
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Active Voice and Passive Voice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying active voice and passive voice activity, students review definitions and examples, label sentences, and rewrite sentences changing the voice from passive to active. Students write seven answers.
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers

For Students 10th - 12th
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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Personal Pronouns: Putting It All Together

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this personal pronouns worksheet, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about personal pronouns and choose which multiple choice pronoun in parentheses correctly completes 8 sentences. Students practice using the pronouns I...
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Comic Book Project

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a comic. In this writing lesson, students discuss comic books and why they continue to be so popular. Students create a comic book using an imaginary character. Students must present a problem and solution in their comic.
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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore rhythmic movements. In this performing arts lesson plan, students create their own movements and then repeat the each others movement. Finally, learners create movements to the Haiku generated by the entire class.
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Bad or Badly: A Troublesome Pair

For Students 5th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about the differences between adverbs and adjectives. They learn when to use "bad", an adjective, and when to use "badly", an adverb. Students then fill in the blanks in the 5 sentences using...
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Few and Less: A Confusing Pair

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn the difference between the words "few" and "less" as well as adverbs and adjectives. They then answer the 14 questions on the page by inserting either few/fewer or less in the blank.
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Mandela The Man

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore civil rights by reading several biographies. In this Nelson Mandela lesson, 9th graders discuss the trials and tribulations Nelson Mandela had to face in South Africa and how they were similar to the problems Martin...
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Young Learner's Writing Workshop 2

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students choose a short story and role play one of the characters in the story. They interview each other about the character they are playing to research them.
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Pronoun Relative

For Students 5th - 6th
A fabulous description of what pronouns are and how they are used is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Learners review usage facts and demonstrate proper usage. They answer 16 questions, and the answers appear at the end of the...
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Avoiding Double Negatives

For Students 3rd - 5th
What double negatives are, and how to avoid using them, is the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a review of what double negatives are, students address 15 problems that have to do with double negatives.
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Yikes! An Interjection!

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about using interjections in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer 9 questions. The answers are on the last page.
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Demonstrate! Using Demonstrative Pronouns

For Students 4th - 6th
In this demonstrative pronouns worksheet, students identify demonstrative pronouns in sentences. In this fill in the blank and underline worksheet, students answer eleven questions.
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Billy Brown and The Belly Button Beastie

For Teachers K
Students read and discuss the book, Billy Brown and the Belly Button Beastie. In this children's literature lesson plan, students read the book and participate in a discussion about the sequence of events in the text. Students...
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A Poem for Grandparents Day

For Students 1st - 5th
In this Grandparents Day activity worksheet, learners learn how to write a cinquain poem and then write a poem pertaining to Grandparents Day.
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The Dragon's Tail

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read a story about Little D, a baby dragon, and how he interacts with the five food groups. They color, chant, pantomime, and discuss food groups after reading the story. They also consider causes and effects as they make...
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Keyboard Buddies in my Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders utilize Microsoft Word to create stationery and letters to send to other children in their school building, expressing experiences in their daily lives. As the unit progresses, they create documents to send to other second...

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