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Strong Descriptive Writing: James and the Giant Peach

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Support your writers! Clear procedures and appropriate support make this a superb resource for elementary writing instruction. Ready your class to compose original descriptive paragraphs inspired by the episode in Roald Dahl's James and...
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Vivid Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars explore parts of speech by collaborating in groups. In this verbs lesson, students examine several boring sentences with their class and define verbs which can spice the sentence up. Young scholars collaborate in pairs to...
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ESL Grammar: Past Tense & Negative Form

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this English Language grammar worksheet, students complete several activities that help them learn how to identify and use the negative form of past tense verbs. Students complete several speaking and writing activities for the past...
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ESL Grammar Future Tense & Negative Form

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several speaking and writing activities that help them identify and use verbs in the future tense and negative form.
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ESL Grammar: Present Tense

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several sentence writing activities and speaking exercises that help them identify and use the present tense of verbs.
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What Do You Know About Scotland?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate global geography by researching the country of Scotland. In this cultural investigation lesson, students view images of Scotland on a computer and listen to audio interviews about Scottish citizens. Students identify...
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ESL Grammar: Past Tense

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several activities that help them identify and use the past tense form of verbs. Students complete several speaking and writing exercises for past tense verbs.
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Lesson: A Garden Party of My Own

For Teachers K - 5th
Kids look at a beautiful work of art to practice grammar, make connections from life to art, and sketching. They identify all the parts of grammar they see in the image, discuss what they see and do on a picnic, and then draw an imaged...
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Describing Paintings: Calm or Stormy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Young writers use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to describe details in two paintings. One depicts a sunny landscape, and the other shows a cloudier view. They write a narrative inspired by the paintings, paying attention to transitional...
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My Secret War: The WWII Diary of Madeline Beck: Lesson 6

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore women's rights by discussing the events of WWII. In this American work force lesson, 5th graders identify the events that led to World War II and how women helped fight the war through non-violent efforts. Students...
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And Then What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts lesson, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Students use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each painting....
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December 5

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this role-playing worksheet, students view and discuss what seven people are doing in seven pictures. Students then answer what each person is doing by answering seven multiple choice questions.
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Grammar Practice

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this grammar activity worksheet, students complete 3 activities that help them to identify and complete sentences with the verbs am, is, and are.
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Scripting The Great Train Robbery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Take writing prompts to another level in this activity, which allows pupils to create scenes of dialogue based on the 1903 silent film, The Great Train Robbery. Useful for a language arts/history cross-curricular activity, the lesson...
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Art Analysis and Creative Writing

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students write an acrostic poem and analyze a work of art. For this art lesson plan, students look at a picture and answer questions about it, write a poem, write about the setting in the painting they saw, and answer short questions...