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Parallelism, Including Correlative Conjunctions and Comparisons
After reading the first reference page about parallel structure using correlative conjunctions, young learners rewrite nine sentences with errors in parallelism. Even the strongest writers in your language arts class could benefit from...
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A Tale of Two Cities Quiz
A Tale of Two Cities begins with one of literature's most memorable paragraphs; see if you can complete it, sentence by sentence, in this quiz! Most questions are fill-in-the-blank, but the juxtaposition makes this easier.
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Metaphors: Understanding Comparisons
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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Metaphors: Identifying Comparisons
My mother is a flower. John is a cheetah. Introduce kids to metaphors with a series of sentences that asks them to identify the two things that are being compared.
Grammar Net
Adjectives of Comparison
Is our car bigger than theirs? Is this car better than than that one? Use comparative and superlative adjectives of provided verbs to complete twenty sentences.
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Comparisons
Fifth graders complete a worksheet. In this comparison lesson, 5th graders view sentences and identify the comparatives in them. Students complete a worksheet on comparisons.
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Comparison of Adjectives
Here is a colorful, cute worksheet to provide your emerging readers with practice understanding and using comparative and superlative adjectives. They fill in cartoon train cars with each form for five adjectives, and underline the form...
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Scottsboro Boys and "To Kill a Mockingbird": Two Trials for the Common Core
Here's a must-have resource for anyone reading To Kill A Mockingbird or using Harper Lee's award-winning novel in a classroom. The packet contains Miss Hollace Ransdall's first-hand, factual account of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys,...
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Comparison Practice
In this comparisons instructional activity, students fill in the blanks in 4 sentences with the words "like" or "unlike". Students then change the form of the adjective provided in 10 sentences that compare two things.
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Worksheet 11 Vocabulary Review: Making Comparisons
In this completing sentences worksheet, students read ten sentences with a missing word. From four choices, students check all possible completions.
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A Monster of a Metaphor
What do Jeep advertisements and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath have in common? They both employ the art of the extended metaphor! Using the Six-Trait Writing model, learners begin to work on their own extended metaphors. Development...
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Exploring Place and Space
Young scholars explore number values by completing mathematical worksheets in class. For this decimals lesson, students identify the different place values a number has and the use of decimals to represent a fraction of a number. Young...
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Writing Comparisons 1
In this writing worksheet, students read the instructions for writing 10 comparison sentences. For each sentence students compare one thing with another. Example: Compare two films that you have seen.
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Using Metaphors
Learners rewrite seven sentences using a metaphor to express the concept presented literally in the originals. One example is provided. What I like here is that the sentences presented fuel thinking about comparisons to support kids'...
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Worksheet 9: Comparisons- Geography
In this geography worksheet, students complete 7 sentences with descriptive words from the word bank. All sentences compare two geographical features.
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Using Similes
Your class will find using similes as easy as pie after completing this figurative language exercise. Provided with a list of incomplete similes, young writers must use their creativity to fill in the blanks with nouns that accurately...
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Quiz: Comparisons
In this making comparison worksheet, students write 16 sentences comparing the items pictured and using the clues words that are provided.
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Vocabulary Worksheets Basic English 3rd Edition Chapter 16: Making Comparisons
In this making comparisons instructional activity, students match well known sayings to 8 explanation sentences. This is a matching instructional activity.
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Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses
Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...
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Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
Upper graders write word problems and research the uses of multiplication. They start off by taking a pre-test on multiplication and then read the book, Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar. They make up word problems to go with their...
For the Teachers
Story Strips Sequencing
What happens next? Work on story sequence with a lesson that prompts kids to put a story back in order. Additionally, they discuss what would happen if one event was missing from the sequence.
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Comparison of Adjectives
In this adjective comparison worksheet, students complete sentences by selecting the correct form of adjectives; one sentence is given to base choices on.
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Comparison and Contrast - D. H. Lawrence
Read The Horse Dealer's Daughter and The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence, then write an essay comparing and contrasting the two stories. Learners choose some aspect to write about, such as themes, characters, setting, or plot.
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Similes
Similes are a great way to get your writers thinking about descriptive details. They read a brief explanation which covers clichés and the general wording of a simile. Then, learners try a few on their own. First, they complete nine...