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PPT
Curated OER

Sentence Construction: What is a Sentence?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
What must a sentence contain in order to be complete? What different types of sentences exist? Look at declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences with this 17-slide presentation. Several example sentences are shown, and the...
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Lesson Plan
Science 4 Inquiry

The Yin and Yang of Photosynthesis: Day vs. Night

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Floating fragments of elodea can grow even without roots. Young scientists use eldoea plants to observe the oxygen production from photosynthesis. They study the difference between having access to high amounts of light and low amounts...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Bringing Douglass’s Words to Life: The Fight with Covey

For Teachers 7th Standards
Readers have the opportunity to bring the words from an excerpt of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to life. They use strategies from the Storyteller’s Toolbox anchor chart as a guide and then work in pairs to prepare their...
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Activity
Museum of Science

Cookie Mining

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Knock a chip off the cookie. Learners purchase a property to mine and mining tools. Pupils use their tools to mine chocolate chips out of a cookie for 5 minutes and return cookie fragments to its original site. After the time is over,...
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Activity
University of California

Jewish Holidays

For Teachers 6th Standards
Modern Jewish holidays have ancient roots with many connections to today. Using photographs of primary sources, such as fragments of a shofar, as well as texts, such as the Hebrew Tanakh, learners explore how Jewish holidays reflect...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Amino Acid Sequences to Show Evolutionary Relationships

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Junior biologists compare the amino acid sequences from fragments of five different globin molecules. They count the letter differences between each species pair. They construct a graphic representation of the evolutionary relationships...
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Worksheet
Sinclair Community College

Sentence Sense Practice Exercise

For Students 6th - 9th
Test your learners' skills in identifying complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons with a worksheet challenge. Every sentence from multiple paragraphs is under question, and pupils have to decide if each sentence is a fragment, run-on,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Sentence Contest

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the definition of a sentence and identify the sentences (complete thoughts) from a list of possibilities. Students evaluate complete and incomplete sentences by being judges at a sentence contest.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Slavery in Colonial America

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the experience of the middle passage of slaves. They review slave songs and discuss their common themes. They develop a monologue in which they integrate a fragment of an actual slave song into a poem they have written.
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Lesson Plan
Virginina Department of Education

Combining Ideas into an Effective Sentence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here is a lesson that is best utilized as reinforcement in identifying sentences that combine independent/dependent clauses, and phrases that are awkward, fragmented or complete. Learners use the red, yellow, and green light method of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Correcting Unfinished Sentences With Subjects and No Verbs

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it by adding a verb.
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Handout
Chomp Chomp

The Subordinate Clause

For Students 4th - 5th
After Amy sneezed all over the tuna salad. So what happened? That is the question readers ask when faced with a subordinate clause unattached to a main clause. And this information sheet shows writers how to combine subordinate clauses...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

DNA Replication

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a model of DNA and simulate replication with their models in an activity that uses licorice, colored marshmallows, and toothpicks. Students also label a diagram of replication and indicate major parts of the DNA molecule.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Matching Exercise

For Students K - 1st
In this reading activity, learners match four phrases to four pictures. The four phrases are short descriptions using sight words and short vowel words with cvc patterns. Cut out the sentence fragments and pictures to move them around...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grade 2 Daily Language Review Worksheet

For Students 2nd
Help your second graders with their editing skills in this language review worksheet. After editing two sentences, they circle the best multiple choice word to complete four additional sentences. Another activity prompts them to choose...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Passive Voice Exercise

For Students 8th - 10th
Use this online, interactive resource to assess your English language learners' sense of the passive voice. There are 10 incomplete sentences shown, and users must select which of three options contains the correct verb tense. 
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Curated OER

Correcting Run-On Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Although this practice opportunity is poorly organized, it does provide a chance for your upper elementary schoolers to identify complete sentences, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments. This worksheet also focuses on ways to correct...
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PPT
Curated OER

Clauses and Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Review sentence structure using this presentation. Learners identify complete and incomplete sentences. Then, they read a list of simple sentences and make them more complex. After this experience, learners could take a look at their own...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Saber vs. Conocer #1

For Students 6th - 8th
What is the difference between the verb saber and conocer? Although they are similar, they are used differently. Test your language learners with this short exercise. They complete the provided dialogue by completing the incomplete...
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BW Walch

Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Second Grade Skills Unit 6: The War of 1812

For Teachers 2nd Standards
An English language arts unit closely examines spelling, grammar, reading, and writing skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns and tricky words. A read-aloud details the War of 1812 and introduces adverbs, and a close reading looks...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals

For Teachers 3rd Standards
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

DNA Race Track

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders simulate a DNA fragment running through a gel electrophoresis in a class activity. Students work in teams as a DNA sample with each person on the team representing a fragment that moves through the gel at a specific speed.

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