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Letters of Compliment and Complaint
Students practice writing letters of compliments and complaints about products they use. They use standard business format for the letters and are expected to have them reviewed by a peer. They mail the letters in and wait for responses.
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Game Shows in the Classroom
Students participate in game show like games when reviewing material for any subject or grade level.
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Prepositions
In this prepositions worksheet, young scholars review and discuss what prepositions are and how to correctly use them in sentences. Students choose the correct preposition for ten sentences.
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Prepositions (Part 2)
In this prepositions worksheet, students, after reviewing prepositions and how to use them correctly, choose the correct preposition for ten sentences.
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Conjunctions (Part 2)
In this conjunctions worksheet, students, after reviewing conjunctions, choose the correct conjunction out of two choices for ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Causative Structures 3
In this causative structures worksheet, students, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose which causative structure grammatically makes ten sentences correct.
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Causative Structures 2
In this causative structures worksheet, learners, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose the correct verb out of a choice of three for each of ten sentences.
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Reported Speech 1
In this reported speech worksheet, young scholars review and discuss five key directives to choosing the grammatically correct verb in ten sentences.
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Past Tense Verbs
This activity, which focuses on the Pilgrims, has students practice the use of past tense verbs. Students in the lower grades could complete this fill-in-the-blank worksheet as a review of information learned about Thanksgiving.
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Past Tense Verbs
In this past tense verbs review worksheet, students add the suffix -ed to the 15 action verbs listed in order to make them past tense.
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Cloze Activity: Captain James Cook
For this Captain James Cook cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 14 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.
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Antonyms
In this antonyms review learning exercise, students examine 16 words and identify antonyms for each of them. Students then draw a picture of a pair of antonyms.
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Lesson Plan C32: Story Starts
Students write story starters to begin the writing process. In this creative writing lesson, students examine story starters and review the structure of paragraphs. Students create their own story starters that engage readers by...
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Defenders of Justice
Students research abolitionists, civil rights advocates, and their allies to learn about racism and justice. For this racism and justice lesson, students define justice and sing a song about activism. Students review the biographies...
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Some Homophones Are Verbs
Fifth graders participate in a spelling bee. In this verbs and homophones instructional activity, 5th graders review how most verbs are formed in the past tense and how this differs from irregular verbs. Students identify homophones and...
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Students complete vocabulary and reading activities for Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist. In this reading and vocabulary activity, students review vocabulary for the text and read sections of the story. Students answer questions for each...
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Science Fiction Stories
Students review the story writing process and the elements such as prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, publishing, and assessment. Next students write a science fiction story that contains a title, the requested number of...
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The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about J.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Gift of the Magi
While reading O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," your class will define and identify situational irony and allusion. Use a study guide (not included, but easy to produce) to record and discuss examples of allusion as you read. Map the...
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Homecoming Quiz
Learners respond to 25 multiple choice questions about the Cynthia Voigt novel, Homecoming. Quizes can be submitted for grading or printed for as a hardcopy for use in classrooms with out computer access.
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Preparing for Success
This lesson plan is more of a series of tips for you, the teacher, to implement when standardized testing comes around. The strongest component of this guide is that it invites the teacher to reflect on what worked the best, and what...
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The Odyssey Lesson 6
"How are belief systems represented and reproduced through nature?" This essential question guides lesson 6 of this unit on The Odyssey (the rest of the unit is linked). Students first write about a scenario in which they are...
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Using Imagery
Show, don't tell! Pairs work together to change a list of telling sentences into showing sentences using picture words that create vivid pictures in the readers’ minds.
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Prepositions Can Show Positions in Time
Who knows where or when? The preposition knows! Young grammarians are asked to identify the preposition and the connecting prepositional phrases in 16 sentences. An answer key is provided.