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Animal Sounds and Passive Voice

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Originally designed by an American language teacher teaching in a public Japanese junior high, this instructional activity could easily be used for any beginning or intermediate level ESL class. With this plan, your class will review two...
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Past Tense, Present Perfect, Past Perfect

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Support grammar instruction with a worksheet that focuses on verb tenses. With two exercises, multiple choice and fill in the blank, class members identify correct tenses in order to show understanding of proper sentence...
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I Have Been Thinking…

For Students 1st Standards
Scholars read a short story about a girl visiting her grandmother, identify the main idea of the tale, and then write a sentence about this idea. Learners practice their phonics skills by filling in word blanks with letters to complete...
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BOOK REVIEW

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students review a book by choosing one word to describe each element and then combining it into one sentence.
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Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students match the body parts with the verb that describes its function. They create complete sentences by using sentence strips to form a dialogue with a healthcare worker. They identify the parts of a sentence as well.
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Soaring High with Fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify reading with speed, ease, and skill making it easier for them to comprehend text. They complete an activity using pseudo words, but first identifying what they are and how they are pronounced. Finally, 1st...
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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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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify the cause and effect in the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In this cause and effect lesson, students listen to the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and discuss what the cause and effect is. As a follow-up,...
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"Every Breath You Take"

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the future continuous tense using the song "Every Breath You Take," by The Police. They identify the future continuous tense in the song, write sentences, place the song lyrics in order, and complete a worksheet.
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Consonants, Colors and Pictures Gymnastics

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice with consonants. In this writing instructional activity, students complete a variety of activities practicing consonants including naming consonants, producing the sound of consonants and identifying the color used for...
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Action Verb Lesson

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders become familiar with action verbs through the reading of To Root, To Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb?  In this action word instructional activity, 2nd graders analyze sentences for the action verb. Students watch a...
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Pets

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners select pets from available graphics to represent pets they own. They categorize the pets according to those that live inside the home, pets that live outside and a pet they would like to own. They generate sentences about each.
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Miss Nelson Is Missing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners practice identifying story elements and using vocabulary words from newly read books.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students read the book Miss Nelson is Missing, and complete several worksheets and a story map...
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Visiting a Marine Sanctuary

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students gather information on a kelp forest and identify species in that ecosystem.  For this underwater ecosystem lesson students gather data, give an oral presentation and create a poster.
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Learning About Verb Tenses

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
How much do your youngsters know about the simple present, past, and future tenses? Find out with this series of practice activities. To begin, learners become acquainted with the verb tenses by reading definitions and examples and...
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Enormous Turnips

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities with the story The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexel Tolstoy. In this language arts lesson, student view the story as a Cloze passage and work with a partner to fill in the blanks. They check to...
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test Week 4

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this identifying vocabulary words from definition clues worksheet, students listen to the oral definitions and write the correct words, using the words in the word banks and then create sentences using them. Students write 25 answers.
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Sorting Out Homophones in Roald Dahl's

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept of homophones.  In this homophone lesson, students use a selection from the book Matilda to review homophones.  Young scholars use a web to identify homophones. 
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 7

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the book Freckle Juice.  In this comprehension lesson, students review what they've already read in Freckle Juice using sentence strips, take a comprehension test, and complete a book review activity with a partner.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Ben Franklin and His Influence

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore electricity by examining the life of Benjamin Franklin.  In this biographical lesson, 4th graders listen to the teacher read facts of Benjamin Franklin's life and analyze his contributions to our current...
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The Body Part of Cells

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are introduced to cell organelles and their functions and the they define the differences between animal and plant cells. They write a paragraph explaining the difference between plant and animal cells and students...
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Amazing Animal Alliterations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Creatures can cause creativity! Alliteration can make writing more enjoyable and entertaining. Help your pupils grasp this concept by using animals as inspiration for alliterative sentences. Prepare your class for the activities by first...
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Adverbs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete a worksheet where they must fill in the blanks with the correct adverb. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders learn all about adverbs and when and where to use them. Students cut action pictures out of a...
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Punctuation Review/Tic-tac-toe

For Teachers 6th
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...