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Collaborative Year-End Projects
Coming up with a menu of engaging year-end projects can be a challenge. Never fear, help is here with an article that suggests eight projects sure to capture the interest of learners of all ages.
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Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students write a set of sentences in simple past tense using words/phrases provided. Answers may be submitted online.
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Exercise on Present Progressive-Form Questions
In this simple present tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form questions in present progressive tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Using Quotation Marks: Around Titles of Short Works
When do you use quotation marks around titles? Review the rules at the top of the page, and then let learners decide if the sentences that follow use the quotations correctly. An answer sheet is included.
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Background for The Outsiders: the 1960s
As background for a reading of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, groups rotate through four stations (video, music, website, information) to gather information on the 1960s. In addition, they interview family members about the 1960s and...
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Pop Concert in Iran
Read, analyze, and critique a newspaper article about a concert with a Western singer and an Iranian band. Scholars will assess key vocabulary terms within the article, learn how to understand a short news report, and hone in on how the...
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Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Book 3, Grade 4
This 4th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice activity provides fiction passages along with open-ended questions regarding the pieces. An essay prompt is also included.
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Internet Adventures
Students explore where words come from. Every word had a beginning--- a birth. They use the internet and go to a web site given by the teacher to take a quiz on word origins, students are allowed to use dictionaries.
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Friendship Day
In this Friendship Day worksheet, learners complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order, unscramble...
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Sentences
Students create different types of sentences. In this sentence writing lesson, students use various types of sentences to make writing interesting. Students play online games and use the interactive whiteboard to practice.
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English Lesson Plans
By designing motivating English lessons, teachers can make learning interesting and memorable for students.
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Elvis Fanatic in Jail
Students read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about an Elvis fan who stole from her employer to buy Elvis memorabilia. They assess how to understand a short news report and discuss the use of present perfect tense in the article.
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Martin Luther King Day
Invite your advanced ESL learners to explore the US national holiday Martin Luther King day. Play the attached mp3 which is a description of this important holiday and facilitate the phrase match and listening gap activities included....
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fourth graders research and write an author report on Roald Dahl, including books written by him, birthplace, family life, and other information on his writing. Students read aloud chapters in the book. Students create a newspaper...
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Coping with Verbs
First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.
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Reading: Home on the Range
In this cowboy poetry worksheet, students read about stories and poems in the American West. Students read the lyrics of "Home on the Range". Students answer 7 multiple choice questions.
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Introducing Poetry
Students explore poetry. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the elements of poetry and students rewrite a lyric or poem.
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Present Perfect: Since / For
In this present perfect tense worksheet, learners are given pairs of sentences they must combine into one using since or for.
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Adjectives That Compare
In these adjectives worksheets, students read about the comparative form of adjectives. Students learn how to use the comparative form in the exercises.
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Heroes
Tenth graders participate in research and class discussion before attempting to write a traditional five paragraph essay. They use the examples of 16 other hero stories to consider. Students use examples and descriptive details to...
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Oh, May I Please?--Using Can and May
In this verbs worksheet, students fill in 8 blanks in 8 sentences with either the action verb can or may. Students read each sentence to themselves to make sure each one sounds grammatically correct.
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Quiz 2A: Using Question Words
In this question asking worksheet, students use the question words where, when what time or why to make questions that fit with the responses on the page. They write 10 questions.
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Using Question Words Quiz 2A
For this questions worksheet, students read 10 answers and write the questions that would correspond. Students use the question words: where, when, what time, or why.