Curated OER
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
In this "The Tell-Tale Heart" worksheet, learners write an essay about how Edgar Allan Poe keeps the reader in suspense. The worksheet helps students construct the essay through eleven different scaffolding steps.
Curated OER
Fragments
In this grammar worksheet, students read about fragment sentences. Students are instructed to watch out for no verb fragments and misplaced periods.
Curated OER
Moral Dilemmas
In this moral dilemmas worksheet, students will cut apart 16 question cards. Then they will take turns reading scenarios about situations involving using one's morals and discuss how they would handle these situations.
Curated OER
Writing Thesis Statements in Sociology
Students discover methods for writing strong thesis statements. In this writing skills lesson, students follow the steps their instructor outlines to review the strengths and weaknesses of their sociology thesis statements.
Curated OER
Characters' Feelings Or Motives
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
Curated OER
Context Clues that Define
In this context clues instructional activity, students read the sentences and passages and use context clues to find the correct answer for the 10 online questions.
Curated OER
Context Clues that Define Pretest
In this context clues worksheet, students define context clues and use them to define words in a reading passage.
Curated OER
There's a World of Science to Read Today!
Students read a current science article. They write a summary of the article, take notes, write and edit a summary, and print their work.
Curated OER
The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
Curated OER
Listening Comprehension - Newspaper Articles
Students demonstrate understanding of main points of the Deseret News article, and identify the verb(s) of each phrase to aid in listening comprehension.
Curated OER
Infinitive Objects
In this infinitive objects worksheet, students read the explanations and examples of object infinitive phrases, then interactively complete 10 sentences with immediate online feedback.
Curated OER
Creating a Cinquain
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students read about how to create a cinquain poem. Students read an example and complete a graphic organizer to help guide them in writing their own.
Curated OER
The Adverb Clause
In this adverb activity, 9th graders study adverb clauses. Students read 20 sentences to identify and circle the adverb clause in each.
Curated OER
Outline a Travel Narrative
Fourth graders are taught how to outline a fictional narrative essay. They review the definition and structure of narrative essays. Students use the activity to brainstorm specific ideas for narrative essays. They are given a...
Curated OER
Limited Resources - Understanding Our Cultural Resources
High schoolers examine and compare preserving natural resources and preserving cultural resources. They conduct Internet research on two topics, and write a position paper on whether cultural resources or natural resources are more...
Curated OER
Listening Comprehension - Newspaper Articles
Pupils demonstrate listening comprehension skills. They listen to an audio reading of two newspaper articles, identify verbs, answer discussion questions, and complete a cloze activity.
Curated OER
Interpreting a Story from a News Article
Students read and retell a story form out of the newspaper. They write to communicate ideas, stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports. They edit and perfect their projects for homework, and they share their work with the...
Curated OER
Spanish Politics
Students identify Spanish and other leaders, political parties, and ideas on a political continuum as a class. They verbally answer questions demonstrating comprehension of the text. Students summarize in writing in Spanish the main...
Curated OER
Five Paragraph Essay
Eighth graders are introduced to the mechanics of writing a standard-form essay. They draft, edit and polish a five-paragraph essay about spending the day as an animal of their choice.
Curated OER
Mapping the 'Utah War'
Eleventh graders examine the contributions of Native American Indians, explorers, and Utah's pioneers.
Curated OER
Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
Curated OER
Open Cloze Worksheet 4
In this grammatical relationships worksheet, 5th graders fill in the blanks in eight sentences by choosing the most appropriate answer (one English word) that best completes each sentence.
Curated OER
Levels of Ability
In this levels of ability worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct forms of can, could, be able to, may, or might. Students complete 13 multiple choice questions.
Curated OER
Sentence Agreement
In this sentence agreement worksheet, students choose the correct form of anybody or somebody to complete 8 sentences. Students also fill in the correct pronouns for sentences containing numbers of people for 6 sentences.