Review the narrative writing process with your emerging story writers. They read a sample narrative and identify five vague verbs that could be replaced with a more exact, exciting verb. Then they write a personal narrative making sure...

Get your kids moving on the first day of school! This action verb activity doesn't have to be used as an ice breaker, but it sure will work as one. Simply place pairs of cards face-side down on the carpet, each with an action verb...

With this worksheet, youngsters review past tense irregular words and predict the spelling of these words. They complete a worksheet where they fill in the missing letters of irregular verbs. The sheet provides the exact number of spaces...

Under what conditions would your Spanish language learners use the conditional? They can find out here, and practice their new knowledge with the linked exercise. There is information about regular and irregular conditional verbs as well...

Students find vivid verbs in literature and use them in their own writing. In this vivid verbs lesson, students use a 'Thinking Thesaurus' of major verbs to study common verbs. Students then practice rewriting sentences using vivid...

In this verb tense and adverbs worksheet, students choose the correct verb tense for the adverb to complete the sentence. Students complete 45 sentences.

Learners find vivid verbs in the story Thank You for the Thistle, by Doree Durston. They add vivid verbs to an existing story to make it more interesting.

In this present perfect tense:  just and recently learning exercise, students read the explanations and examples of correct usage, then interactively complete 9 sentences with immediate online feedback.

In this online interactive English language skills worksheet, students answer 20 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of phrasal verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding future continuous and future perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners answer 17 fill in the blank questions regarding simple future and future perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive grammar skills learning exercise, students answer 20 fill in the blank questions regarding phrasal verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this present perfect tense and simple past tense worksheet, students identify the differences between the present perfect tense and the simple past tense.

In this ESL online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the use of present simple tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

For this verbs worksheet, students read the dialogues and complete them with the correct form of say or tell. Students complete 15 dialogues.

In this gerunds and infinitives worksheet, learners type in the correct form of a given verb to fit given sentences. Students may check their answers.

Explore language arts by completing a worksheet with class. They read the story Owl Moon and discuss the rhythm of the writing and how action verbs are used appropriately. Then complete a writing worksheet which discusses writing...

Students write a descriptive paragraph. In this writing lesson, students define elaboration and discuss the characteristics of an elaborate paragraph. Students write a paragraph that contains vivid adjectives, strong verbs and exact nouns.

In this ESL word formation worksheet, students complete each sentence using the proper form of the word or words given in bold below the sentence. They fill in 9 blanks in seven sentences.

Explore the relationship between U and I with a video and related activities. First, pupils have some fun with the alphabet and discuss text message language. Next they practice coming up with words that have the same sound a I and...

Clowns are a big hit with kids! Explore a few circus related websites to get an idea of how clowns look and what they do. They then build sculpting skills by creating expressive clown faces out of clay. Web links, materials list, and...

Make some sense out of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky." After reading through the poem, introduce the word portmanteau and send small groups off to alter the original poem. 

A great way to practice listening, punctuation, and proper grammar is playing this great partner activity. Learners must work together to read and write different sentences. 

Young scholars explore rhythmic movements. In this performing arts instructional activity, students create their own movements and then repeat the each others movement. Finally, young scholars create movements to the Haiku generated by...