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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Noisy Nora, Studious Students: Story Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Alliterative adjective nicknames generate stories inspired by Rosemary Wells' book Noisy Nora (also a thematic complement to any class with children who make a ruckus to get attention). Class members explore basic story elements --...
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PPT
Curated OER

Writing a Story

For Teachers K - 2nd
A terrific and meaningful presentation on story writing awaits your class. This really is a good one! Young writers are led through a series of slides that do a terrific job of teaching story elements, but the slides also stimulate their...
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Handout
San José State University

Adverbs

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
While designed for college students, this review of adverbs could be used in a high school classroom as well. The worksheet begins with a detailed overview of adverbs which is followed by a six-question activity.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Adjectives and Adverb Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
For this adjective, adverb, and prepositions worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences and indicate if sentences are correct or not. Students complete 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Adjectives and Adverbs

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar learning exercise, students circle the adjective or adverb in parentheses that makes twenty sentences grammatically correct.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Ing" Words as Descriptors

For Teachers K - 4th
This clever instructional activity has your students listen to story about bugs, work together to brainstorm list of "ing" words that describe bugs, create t-chart of words, choose words to place in poem template to create class poem...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson One: Word Choice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this word choice worksheet, students complete information relating to "The Witches" by Roald Dahl. Students practice using different adjectives, verbs, adverbs and descriptive words through writing activities. Students answer...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Noun, Adjective or Adverb - Kelis, Get Along with You

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this songs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the song Get Along With You with nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, and complete a crossword. Students complete 2 activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Adverbs That Modify Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this adverb and adjectives worksheet, students read ten sentences, underline the adverb in each sentence and write the word it modifies after the end of the sentence. Students study the first one done for them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I'm Published! A Parts of Speech Book

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Reinforce the importance of the writing process with this publication lesson plan. Elementary and middle schoolers compose a parts of speech book which includes one page each for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Digger and the Gang

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an online puzzle story. They practice notetaking skills and using adjectives and adverbs. They write a Cinderella story from a thief's point of view using idiomatic phrases. They review other English skills in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Common and Proper Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Identify nouns in speech and writing. Learners find all the nouns in a read-aloud story. Then, they complete a worksheet that reviews the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections. A list of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Add Awesome Alliteration to your Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars practice writing with alliteration, repeating the same letter sound at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence; students also review of adjectives, verbs, and adverbs while creating an alphabet book.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Freckle Juice

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete activities with the book Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. In this literature lesson, students read chapter one and brainstorm adjectives for the four main characters. They make a page of vocabulary words and definitions. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 10: Living in Colonial America

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Over three weeks, third graders participate in lessons designed to boost spelling and grammar skills—adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns—and prefixes. Readings are themed to share stories about Colonial America.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the life of Harriet Tubman. They examine a painting of Harriet Tubman and consider the tools used to communicate information about her. Sudents describe how the color of a painting explains the mood of the illustrator....
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Organizer
PB Works

“George Washington’s Socks”: Vocabulary Part 1

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Supplement a class reading of George Washington's Socks with this list of vocabulary words. Including a mixture of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, this resource asks young readers to record the page number and a synonym for each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Infinitive [Adjective] Recognition

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this infinitive adjective worksheet, students read about infinitives and adjectives, then find infinitives acting like adjectives in a set of 10 sentences. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Controlled Narrative Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars add details to their narratives. In this narrative writing instructional activity, students look at a simple four sentence narrative and add adjectives and adverbs to make it more descriptive. They do this activity whole...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating Interesting Sentences

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders locate the describing words in paragraphs. In this describing sentence lesson, 5th graders find the words in a paragraph that make it interesting. Students are given two paragraphs and told to list the nouns, adjectives,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Interesting & Interested, etc.

For Students 7th - 9th
While just a quick review of word usage, this ten question activity could be a great filler activity. Learners could hone their vocabulary and spelling skills using this quiz which can be done both online or as a worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Add Awesome Alliteration to Your Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore alliteration. In this writing lesson, students read the book Thank You for the Thistle and create sentences with alliteration. Students create an alphabet booklet with alliteration.