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Slang Quiz: Mixed 2

For Students 7th - 9th
In this slang worksheet, students identify the slang word and then select the best answer to complete the given sentence that defines the word. There are 10 exercises like this for students to complete.
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Slang Quiz: Mixed 4

For Students 6th - 7th
In this slang learning exercise, students identify the slang word and then select the best answer to complete the given sentence that helps define the word. There are 10 exercises like this for students to complete.
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Sayings Quiz: Will

For Students 6th - 8th
For this online quiz worksheet, students read the sentences containing the English sayings and select the correct answer to complete the 10 exercises.
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Identify Poetic Devices

For Students 6th - 8th
In this poetic devices activity, students identify devices being used as alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme, idiom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole or personification and explain their choice.
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Editorial Cartoon: Equal Opportunity

For Teachers 7th - 9th
students explore how editorial cartoons often use familiar adages or idioms in new ways to make a point about something.
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Editorial Cartoons: Gay Rights

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider gay rights. In this editorial cartoon lesson plan, students analyze an editorial cartoon by identifying the idioms and puns in the cartoon. Students create their own editorial cartoons.
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ESL-Expressions With Animals

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL expressions with animals worksheet, students complete a set of simple analogies, filling in blanks with the correct animal name, complete a set of "animal idiom," and write idioms/expressions.
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The Language of Love

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the images and idioms related to love in their own culture. They examine new rituals recently created in Japan by reading and discussing "Osaka Journal:Japanese Date Clubs Take the Muss Out of Mating."
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The Bernstein Bear's Trouble with Money: Financial and Academic Literacy

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
What do figures of speech have to do with financial literacy? Take an interdisciplinary look at The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money to find out. Young analysts read about the cubs' spendthrift ways and how Mama and Papa Bear...
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Editorial Cartoons

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Do your classes love reading and drawing cartoons? Middle schoolers read an editorial cartoon from a newspaper. They discuss the cartoonist's topic, audience, and purpose. Next, they brainstorm questions they have about the cartoon and...
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Figures of Speech

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Second and third graders explore similes and metaphors. They complete six sentences by choosing the correct word to complete the sentence.
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The Weather

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What's it like out today, and what do you plan to wear? These are the two main topics for this Italian lesson. By the end of the plan, pupils should have a grasp of basic weather and clothing terms as well as a general understanding of...
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As and Like Exercise

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sentence completion with the words as or like worksheet, students read descriptions of their usages, fill in the blanks with as and like to complete sentences, and create additional sentences using them correctly. Students write...
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Metaphors: Understanding Comparisons

For Students 5th - 8th
Here's a metaphor worksheet that asks kids to identify the two things being compared and then to explain the similar characteristics that are being identified.
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Blaze a Trail

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Compare and contrast different ways that sources present information with a reading worksheet. After readers view two short passages about blazing a trail, they note the information they found in each selection.
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Seeing Seattle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read an article from English Teaching Forum to learn about Seattle, Washington. In this Seattle research activity, students make words from the letters in Seattle, Washington. Students read a fact sheet about the city and find...
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Transportation Systems

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine transportation systems and explore problems created by modern transportation. For this transportation systems lesson, students discuss various forms of transportation as it relates to depletion of our natural oil...
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Metaphorical Expressions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this idioms learning exercise, students read 12 metaphorical expressions and match them to their meanings in another column. Many feature parts of the body, such as "heavy heart."
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Worksheet 4. Predictions

For Students 5th - 7th
In this predictions worksheet, students read 6 predictions that were made in history and identify each of them as true or false. Idioms and words are defined at the bottom of the sheet.
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A Postcard from America by Robert Olen Butler

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students read "A Postcard from America" by Robert Olen Butler and complete comprehension activities for the text. In this close reading lesson, students view postcards and read the example text. Students complete close reading activities...
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A Lucky Break

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners complete activities where they identify and decipher common phrases that are related to poultry and then cook drumsticks as a class. In this poultry lesson plan, students also read the history of the chicken and create idioms.
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ESL: Advanced Conversation-Quiz #2

For Students 6th - 10th
In this ESL advanced conversation quiz worksheet, learners match definition to slang words and phrases, write past tense verb forms, write plural forms of nouns, meanings of idioms and take dictation.
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In a Pickle

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to a story that uses homonyms and figurative language throughout the text. They illustrate the literal and figurative meanings of some figures of speech.
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Lilting Limericks

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the formula for writing limericks and use it to write their own poems.

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