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Description and Modifying: What's On Your Plate?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a food product and an advertisement promoting it.  In this description and advertising lesson, students read children's book for inspiration and discover advertising techniques.  Students complete their ads and...
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I See and I Think (It's A Wonderful World)

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities...
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The Verb and Adverb Connection

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.
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Basic English Sentence Patterns

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
A simple set of practice sheets deals with sentence structure and patterns. The 117-page packet includes 10 units of skills, varying from identifying parts of speech in a sentence to writing the correct part to make a sentence...
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Prepositional Phrases

For Students 4th - 7th
A thorough grammar activity on prepositional phrases first reviews the definitions and examples of prepositional phrases, adjective phrases, and adverb phrases, before prompting students to apply their knowledge to several different...
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Writing Mythological Narratives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students compose a creative writing piece based on a painting of a mythological scene. For this creative writing lesson,  students write about the scene in the painting and tie in  their original stories into tales from the...
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Character Attributes in Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze the importance of characters in fiction writing and performances.  For this theatre lesson, 3rd graders identify the important characteristics of a fictional character and how to portray a character through...
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The Great Eight: Teaching the Eight Parts of Speech

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Integrate grammar activities and review into your daily classroom routine to facilitate practice and reinforcement of this vital skill.
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Lesson: A Garden Party of My Own

For Teachers K - 5th
Kids look at a beautiful work of art to practice grammar, make connections from life to art, and sketching. They identify all the parts of grammar they see in the image, discuss what they see and do on a picnic, and then draw an imaged...
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Longman

Grammar Practice for Elementary Students

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Designed for elementary students, this 178-page practice booklet covers all the basic elements of grammar instruction.
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California Academy of Science

Poetic Reflections

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Poetry is a wonderful way to explore language, express topical understanding, and incite creative thinking. After a trip to the local natural history museum (or zoo), learners write an acrostic or a cinquain poem describing one of their...
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Adjective Groups

For Students 6th - 7th
In this grammar activity activity, learners use the given adjective and change the word to a noun, adverb, or verb form if possible. Students complete 40 examples.
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Words In The News

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are asked to match the civil wars with the main dates they were fought. They work in groups and try to match the vocabulary with the definitions. Students work with other groups to pool their knowledge. They are told that they...
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Sentence Building 4

For Teachers 7th
In this sentence building worksheet, 7th graders use the given grammar elements to write six sentences. Students use the following grammar elements: article, adjective, verb, adverb, and preposition.
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Persuasive Language

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read a persuasive story study persuasive language. They then write a 50-word online advertisement for a target audience to try and sell an unusual item to a targeted audience.
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Parts of Speech Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students replace nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives in a poem. They identify the parts of speech, and rewrite the poem using their own selection of parts of speech.
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Language - Simple Sentence Structure

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this sentence structure worksheet, students read a selection about sentence structure and draw a red circle around the noun phrase and a blue circle around the verb phrases in 5 sentences. Students also construct 6 simple sentences.
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Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There are two types of prepositional phrases: adjectival and adverbial. Gather teaching strategies from this resource to give your learners lots of practice and meet Common Core standards! First, review prepositions by providing a...
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Sentence Combining/Sentence Variety

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Challenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...
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Roald Dahl

The Twits - The Wormy Spaghetti

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
What do spiders' legs and an octopus's eyeball have to do with metaphors? The fourth lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl uses disgusting foods to teach about metaphoric writing.
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English Skills Assignment 6.205

For Students 5th - 6th
Study words and word choice with this resource. Although the presentation is overwhelming, several topics are covered here. Alliteration, root words, parts of speech, and word meanings are just some of the topics! There's also a...
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Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Language Arts Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
Review word choice and grammar skills with this practice test for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Fifteen multiple-choice questions prompt eighth graders to recall writing strategies, grammar skills, and...
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ABC Grammar Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Elementary learners create an ABC grammar book. The project begins with class members taking digital pictures of items that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Depending on level, they then add a word or a complete sentence to...
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Why the Whales Came- The Beach

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this why the whales came worksheet, students add adjectives and adverbs to a paragraph about nature. Students fill in twelve adjectives or adverbs from given words and then write sentences of their own.

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