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Enhancing Listening Comprehension
Students develop, discuss and practice listening skills in English, focusing on prediction activities and strategies for coping with difficult listening situations.
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Students as "Grammarians": Discovering Grammatical Rules, Lesson on Reduced Clauses of Reason
For this grammar worksheet, students work in pairs to complete the 24 reduced clauses of reason questions. In some questions, students write answers to specific questions, and in some they fill in blanks in sentences.
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Adjectives
In this grammar instructional activity, 3rd graders focus on the usage of adjectives. Students read 10 sentences and complete multiple choice questions choosing the best adjective to describe the underlined noun in each sentence.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms to meet the stated criteria. Students focus on simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present...
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France Introduces Smoking Ban
Students read, discuss and analyze a newspaper article about France introducing a ban on smoking in bars, cafes and restaurants. They assess the key vocabulary words used in the article and view the grammar side of the article.
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Understanding Simple Present Tense Verbs Using the Song 'Penny Lane"
For this music and grammar worksheet, students use the song, "Penny Lane" by the Beatles, to examine the use of simple present tense verbs. They listen to the song before completing 4 short answer questions. They record present tense...
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Proofreading Relay
Sixth graders play a proofreading relay game. For this proofreading lesson, 6th graders are broken up into two teams. Each team has an incorrect sentence and they need to fix it one at time by checking for mistakes in grammar,...
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A Water Droplet's Experience in the Hydrologic Cycle
Students write a story from the perspective of a water droplet on a journey through the water cycle. They use the 6+1 Traits writing method to focus on voice in the writing as they create characters that their water droplet has...
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Quick Writes
Students write on a variety of topics, maximize creative and expository writing skills, develop focused writing, organize ideas, incorporate detail in writing, and exhibit varied and precise word choice.
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Conditional Chains
In this ESL grammar learning exercise, students will focus on the usage of conditional phrases. Students will use their speaking skills to begin conditional phrases, while working with other students to verbally complete each phrase.
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Health and Body Care
In these health care and grammar worksheets, learners complete several activities that teach them about spa treatments, fitness center activities, doctor visits, conjunction usage, paragraph format, and word usage.
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Writing A Business Letter Who, What, and Where Are They
Seventh graders word process business letters using proper tab settings, spell checking, grammar and punctuation. They use the Internet to search for names and addresses.
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Russian Poisoning
Students read a newspaper article about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian KGB officer who was mysteriously poisoned in 2006. They discuss and define vocabulary words, complete comprehension worksheets and analyze the grammar and...
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Proofreading: Lesson 1
Fourth graders examine instructions for proofreading activities and develop strategies to use in proofreading. They find and correct errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics in different writing samples.
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Proofreading Lesson 5
Fourth graders explore various proofreading strategies. They develop their proofreading strategies. Students find and correct errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics. They discuss sentence formation, usage, and mechanics.
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Details, Details, Details
Students review paragraph development, use of adjectives and grammar requirements. They incorporate various details in a written paragraph describing a visual image used as a writing prompt.
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Giving Verbal Directions/ESOL
Young scholars practice giving verbal directions accurately and employ correct prepositions and prepositional phrases and adverbs when giving those directions. They focus on using correct grammar, imperatives and infinitives when giving...
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Can/Can't Practice
Verbs are the focus of this language arts activity. Students fill in 8 blanks in 8 sentences with "can" or "can't," and make sure each answer is true. Students then use "could" or "couldn't" to complete 6 additional sentences.
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Past Progressive/Past Tense Practice
As part of a study of the past progressive and past tense forms of verbs, students fill in the blanks. The activity, which focuses on the use of past tense verbs and forming questions, would be appropriate for older students. The story...
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Using the Simple Present
In this simple present tense learning exercise, students answer a set of 39 questions that relate to a YouTube video; link is given for the video, questions focus on using simple present tense.
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6 Traits: Organization
Students make logical patterns in their writing to demonstrate the trait of organization. In this organization lesson plan, students focus on events proceeding logically.
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6 Traits: Voice
Students explore the trait of voice. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on the writing trait of voice. Students view a video and practice writing.
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6 Traits: Sentence Fluency
Students practice writing with sentence fluency in order to make the story more enjoyable for the reader. In this sentence fluency lesson plan, students focus on rhythm and flow.
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ESOL: Health and Nutrition
Students explore the four food groups and how they contribute to one's health. They identify the four food groups and create a poster of the four food groups with pictures. They present their posters to the class and practice answering...