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Spanish Drama: Latin America
Students explore Hispanic countries. In this Hispanic culture and language instructional activity, students choose an Hispanic country to research. Students explore given websites and prepare a dramatization incorporating the...
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Present, Present Progressive and Past Tense Practice
This activity, which was designed for use in an ESL setting, focuses on the present, present progressive and past verb tense. The types of sentences used would be appropriate for older students. There are 20 questions.
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Pendemonium - The Posse in Australia
Students revise letters focusing their revision on comma and periods usage. In this creative grammar lesson, students watch a video on commas and periods, write a letter to a partner without the use of commas or periods, and revise a...
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Punctuation Review/Tic-tac-toe
Sixth graders play a tic-tac-toe game in pairs. In this language arts lesson, one student uses an X to show the correct sentences, while the other student uses an O to show incorrect sentences. Students use a T-chart to record the...
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Looking at Life through the Creation of Personal Metaphors
Learners focus on the creation of personal metaphors, which are first illustrated in pictures and caricatures and then extended to descriptive/analytical paragraphs. They teach the lesson to others using their own personal metaphors as...
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Present Simple Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students will focus on the usage of the verb form "to be." Students will create ten questions, by unscrambling the words provided.
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Present Perfect Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students will focus on the correct usage of the present perfect tense. Students will complete ten scrambled sentences using the verb "to have."
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The Kwanzaa Tradition: Pronoun Review
Celebrate Kwanzaa and reinforce grammar skills with one language arts activity. Learners add missing pronouns to sentences in a passage about the traditions and customs of Kwanzaa. Next, they answer four comprehension questions...
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MI Meaningful Math
Fifth graders increase skills in organizing information for writing. In this organization lesson, 5th graders use correct grammar to design math problems for real world math.
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The Lorax
Third graders, while working in groups, identify five sets of words that rhyme in order to write and illustrate a storybook using rhyming words through a journal entry. They assess proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation in their...
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Nelson Mandela's Birthday
Students complete a variety of vocabulary-related activities with a focus on a news article about Nelson Mandela's 89th birthday. They read the article, define key vocabulary terms, identify the famous people mentioned in the text,...
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Ethnic Humor
Students define ethnicity and ethnic group in their own words. In groups, they view comic strips and identify how the strips relate to their family life. Individually, they write their own comic strip about their own ethnic group. To...
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Past Tense
In this ESL instructional activity, students will focus on the usage of the verbs "be, "do," and "have." Students will complete 20 questions, by adding the appropriate question tag to the end of each question.
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Quiz 3A: Expressions of Quantity
As part of this activity focusing on the use of the expressions all of, almost all of, most of, some of and none of, students evaluate groups of symbols to identify the information missing. In the first part of this 14 question activity,...
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Colons in Lists
Clarify colon usage by completing the included activities with your class. Pupils first read information about colons, focusing in particular about how to use colons to indicate a list. They apply their knowledge to five sentences that...
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Pendemonium Unnatural Selection: Quotation Marks
Students practice the correct use of quotation marks. In this grammar lesson, students watch and then discuss a video on the use of quotation marks. Students find examples of quotation marks in books and periodicals and then convert...
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Movie Genres
In this grammar worksheet, learners match twelve movie genres with their appropriate definitions and examples from two answer banks and then translate the titles into Chinese. Students answer six questions regarding personal movie...
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Avoiding Double Negatives
What double negatives are, and how to avoid using them, is the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a review of what double negatives are, students address 15 problems that have to do with double negatives.
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Letter Writing Basics
Students write a business letter with information regarding specific writing mechanics. In this writing lesson, students learn to write a business letter and they focus on one area of concern. Students follow a business letter...
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What are Nouns?
In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders focus on nouns. Students take the online test by reading each of the given sentences and clicking on the noun in each.
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American Journey: The Civil War
Utilize this worksheet package if you are looking for basic Civil War coverage. Much of the plan is disabled, however the worksheets contain 2 simple texts that pupils can read, mark, and respond to in 2 comprehension questions that...
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Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Students focus on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice in the past tense while discussing and solving a difficult problem.
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Integrating Past Continuous
Learners recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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Prefixes
In this grammar instructional activity, students add the correct prefix to 15 words. Students also write another word beside it that has the same suffix.