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Developing Grammar
Students work on grammar with annual events and past tenses respectively. They drill and practice independently and in small groups. Students' extend their linguistic precision when talking about their lives.
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Song Lessons Fundamentals of English Grammar 3rd Edition
In this Song worksheet, learners listen to the song once and describe the singer's attitude. The students listen to the song one more time and list one yes/no question and all the future and imperative forms that they hear. Finally there...
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Grammar Football
Students explore the ruloes for the correct usage of grammar. The game of football is played by classroom teams to acquire points each time an error is corrected by a member of the team.
McGraw Hill
Study Guide for Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia is a story about friendship that brings magic into ordinary life. Study guides may not be magical, but the guided questions, graphic organizers, extension activities, vocabulary, and discussion questions help...
Starfall
Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives
In this grammar activity, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
Smithsonian Institution
Mary Henry: Journal/Diary Writing
A great way to connect social studies with language arts, a resource on Mary Henry's historical diary reinforces the concepts of primary and secondary sources. It comes with an easy-to-understand lesson plan, as well as the reference...
Fisher Reyna Education
Personal Narrative Writing Prompts
Looking for stimulating writing prompts that won't make young writers cringe? A set of five personal narrative writing prompts engages pupils in analyzing, thinking, connecting, and writing about particular topics. Each prompt begins...
Mathed Up!
Coordinates
Young graphers decide where to plot a point given a specific ordered pair. The problems vary in difficulty, beginning with simpler coordinates, and ending with plotting and connecting coordinates. Each graph is labeled with the...
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Probability
How likely is it to draw a blue marble? Pupils find the likelihood of events and connect that to the probability of the event. They find the probabilities of simple events and show their probabilities on a scale.
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Angles in Triangles and Quadrilaterals
This short video show viewers how to connect the sum of the angles in a triangle to other angle measurements. Pupils determine the missing measures for angles involved with triangles and quadrilaterals. Class members then must explain...
Mathed Up!
Area and Circumference of Circles
Don't go around and around, help your class determine amounts around and in a circle with a video that connects circumference to the perimeter or the distance around an object. The resource includes 14 questions dealing with circles and...
Mathed Up!
Pie Charts
Representing data is as easy as pie. Class members construct pie charts given a frequency table. Individuals then determine the size of the angles needed for each sector and interpret the size of sectors within the context of frequency....
Mathed Up!
Vectors
Young mathematicians connect vectors to geometric shapes by watching a video that expresses vectors in relation to the sides of geometric figures. They then apply what they learned by completing a worksheet of practice questions.
Curated OER
Managing Medical Conditions
Your scholoars practice organizing and presenting information through written language. They gather information about a medical condition and share it with someone else. They then use a format where they organize their information using...
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Like Water for Chocolate: How-to Narrative Essay
Connect Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate to student experience with this how-to narrative essay. Writers weave the instructions from their own family recipe into a narrative using sensory details. This assignment sheet includes...
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Prepositions Sentence Drop
In this prepositions worksheet, students start with the sentence starter and drop lines each time to find the prepositions that make a complete sentence.
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Noun Book
Seventh graders create a book about the different types of nouns. In this noun book lesson, 7th graders discuss and define plurals, possessives, and proper nouns. Students then make a book or PowerPoint presentation containing examples...
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If I Could Have Lived in Another Time or Culture
Third graders develop multi-paragraph compositions. They include an introduction, first and second level support, and a conclusion. They use a variety of sentence structures (e.g., simple, compound/complex) and sentence types (i.e.,...
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Adverbs used in mixed time frames
In this adverbs activity, students choose the correct adverb in the correct tense agreement to complete the sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total.
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Exercise 16: Future Perfect Tense Review
The future perfect tense is tough not only for English language learners, but it's tough for native speakers as well! No matter who the audience is, they'll be thankful for this review opportunity. As learners read the passage provided,...
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Prepositions Can Show Positions in Space
Answer the questions where and when with this handy prepositions worksheet. Twelve questions contain prepositional phrases for your class to find and label; the first one is completed as an example. The resource includes an answer key on...
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Say It in French
Eleventh and twelfth graders research and create language-immersion Web-based presentations. They choose a particular theme (family, travel, etc.) to create a webpage on the Internet. They are given a rubric to check their grammar and...
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What is a Preposition?
Where and when should you use prepositions? A handy activity provides examples and instructions about prepositions and prepositional phrases, as well as eight practice sentences. Learners underline the prepositional phrases and circle...
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Fate versus Free Will
Tenth graders explore Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. After reading specific scenes, they brainstorm and discuss free will. Students observe a clip from the Dr. Phil television show entitled, "Afraid to Age" and make connections from the...