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K20 LEARN

Windows To The Soul: A Creative Writing Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
The eyes have it in a project that combines art with creative writing. Class members list three adjectives or characteristics of a person they admire. Then draw a picture of a pair of eyes that they feel reflects these characteristics....
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K20 LEARN

The War of the Words: Grammar and Parts of Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here's a lesson that adds some zip to a study of parts of speech. Class members read two versions of the same article, one loaded with evocative nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, while the other is missing this sensory language....
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Curated OER

Adjective Fun

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate and then describe what an adjective is. Illustrations are made using their adjectives to describe a noun and to answer questions about the information gathered.
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Curated OER

Is it a solid or liquid?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners review the vocabulary terms solid and liquid. They also review that adjectives tell what kind, which one, and how many. The teacher introduces a "Oobleck" after reading "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" by Dr. Seuss. The students...
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Describe a Character in a Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders should be familiar with characters of a story and adjectives. The students should have some knowledge of Kidspiration. After reading a story, they will use Kidspiration and create a character web to describe a character in...
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K12 Reader

Adjective Antonyms

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Easy or hard? Fast or slow? Invite your class members to practice with antonyms. They identify each adjective and then use provided antonyms to rewrite the sentences.
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Curated OER

Past Participles

For Students 6th - 12th
Consider this online resource that includes accurate information about past participles for a reference material for your Spanish language, or as a source of inspiration for your own lesson. Beginning with a definition of past...
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Curated OER

Parts of Speech: Building Good Sentences

For Teachers 3rd
Using technology, 3rd graders will complete a reinforcement project to differentiate between nouns (common and proper), verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. Using the teacher-made template, they will create PowerPoint slides on the...
Interactive
University of Victoria

Grammar: Adjective Order 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Bring your learners to the computer lab for this quick exercise placing adjectives in the correct order. There are six examples to work with, and learners must place each of the adjectives in the correct order. What makes this resource...
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Curated OER

What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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Curated OER

Volcano Lava Recipe--Experiment and Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners build a volcano of clay around a container that is thin and tall. They experiment with two containers with different mixtures in each. Students write out their findings and use strong adjectives to describe how the two mixtures...
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Internet Archive

Introduction to Latin Language

For Students 7th - 12th
Begin teaching your learners—and yourself—some basics about the Latin language with the inquiries available in this resource. Although the questions are linked to a textbook of unknown origin, they offer a good beginning on where to...
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Curated OER

Sentence Train

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
What child doesn't like trains? Use this fun idea to practice writing. Young readers learn to write complete sentences by using a train graphic organizer made out of construction paper. Each section of the train (engine, boxcar, and...
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Curated OER

Excessive Nominalizations, Supplemental Exercises

For Students 6th - 8th
Dave Carpenter, a reporter for the Washington Post, calls excessive nominalization “verbal gunk” or “the cliché-thick murk of corporatespeak.” Give your young grammarians practice thawing verbs frozen in abstract nouns with an exercise...
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Curated OER

Adjective and Noun Agreement

For Students 6th - 8th
Do adjectives and nouns have to agree in Spanish? Yes, they do! Print out this simple worksheet to give your learners some practice modifying the adjective to agree with the Spanish noun. 
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Curated OER

The Last Lecture: Power Word Search

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Powerful verbs. Significant nouns. Great adjectives. Readers of The Last Lecture conduct a power vocabulary search and create a list of words drawn from the text that will be used to craft a found poem.
Interactive
Curated OER

Superlatives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this superlatives worksheet, students complete the sentences using the superlative form of the adjective in the brackets. Students complete 9 sentences.
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Curated OER

Descriptions

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners describe things using sensory words.  In this adjective lesson, students practice conversations describing items they touch.  Learners use words to describe properties of items such as size and texture.
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Curated OER

Business Writing Genres

For Students 8th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, read eighteen sentences to each other filling in an adjective in each blank.
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Curated OER

BBC Learning English, Working Abroad, Vocabulary

For Students Higher Ed
In this working abroad vocabulary worksheet, students match business related vocabulary terms to their definitions, and then complete a fill in the blank activity.
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Curated OER

Articles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn how to use articles in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer the 10 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page.
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Curated OER

Getway to More Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use more precise descriptive words in their writing.
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Curated OER

Multicultural Literature Lesson Plan The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders begin reading "The Lotus Seed" before determining a plant that is a representative of their country or region. They illustrate the plant and write sentences about it and locate the region on a map. Finally, they make a...
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Curated OER

The Key Words Of Business

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this business worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the appropriate word from the word bank and make connections from one part of the bubble map to another.

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