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Human Rights in the News
Students, in groups, review recent newspapers and news media. They construct a poster using items from the newspaper grouped under four categories: rights being practiced or enjoyed, rights being denied, rights being protected, and...
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Isn’t It Exciting? (The American Industrial Revolution and Urbanization)
America was built on the ingenuity, work ethic, and foresight of our ancestors. Sixth graders learn about the complex Gilded Age in American history, including the prominent inventors and captains of industry, and how they all connect...
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War in the News
Students consider the portrayal of war in the news. In this lesson on Journalistic perspectives, students will work in groups to critically examine news articles written during war times throughout history.
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Help Wanted
In this factual text worksheet, 6th graders read through several want ads and then answer the detailed questions that follow to check their reading comprehension skills.
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Understanding the News
Students work in small groups to identify the following categories of news articles: hard news, features, announcements, and opinion/personal reflection.
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If Hornets Could Talk
Fifth graders create a school newspaper. In this journalism lesson students write articles for a school newspaper. They also create an informational website. the projects are both on-going.
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Building a Journalism Team
Students play a granola bar relay to learn about the importance of teamwork in a journalism team. In this journalism team lesson plan, students use granola bars to participate in a relay activity to improve their communication as well as...
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Art Smart
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the expression of art that is popular in modern times. They read articles from the New York Times and write reflectively about the featured art exhibits. Students use the newspaper to...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: 9/11 Revisited
Political cartoons about the September 11 terrorist attacks provide an opportunity for class members to analyze the inferences embedded in the drawings.
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Picture Me with Words
Learners search in newspapers for words that describe them or what they like. They gather the words and use them to create a self-portrait. They read "boring" sentences and rewrite them using more descriptive words. They write 10 word...
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CTBS Usage Practice #6
In this CTBS usage practice activity, students identify simply subjects, topic sentences, sentences off topic, and combine multiple sentences. There are seventeen multiple choice questions.
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QUIZ 5A: Using The / A / An
In this articles quiz worksheet, students respond to 4 fill in the blank questions using the appropriate articles (a/an/the).
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Double Quiz: Present Simple Questions/ Trivia
In this ESL online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the use of present simple tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Prepositions of Time
In this prepositions of time worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with either the word at, in, or on. Students fill in 15 sentences write 4 on their own, and fill in a chart for 4 blanks for each word..
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Present Simple Verb Form Worksheet
In this present simple verb and occupations worksheet, students fill in 15 blanks using the verbs given in the key. They fill in the missing words and verbs in a paragraph. They match descriptions of occupations with the proper word and...
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Look at Those Seeds Grow!
Students explore plant science by participating in a botany activity. In this seed growth lesson, students identify the necessary elements to ensure a plant grows well and prepare seeds for planting. Students plant their soaked seeds in...
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Noun + Noun Matching Combinations
For this noun + noun matching combinations worksheet, learners interactively choose a nouns to complete 20 sentences, with answers available.
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Present Simple Or Present Continuous?
In this present simple or present continuous worksheet, students decide which of the correct verbs go in twenty blanks in twenty sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Types of Sentences
In this grammar learning exercise, students identify twenty sentences as correct as is, fragments, contains a comma splice or is a fused sentence.
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Drill - Sentences with 'do'
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite fifteen sentences using the action verb be. Students study the example given for each category of sentences.
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Drill For Future Tense: "be" and "going to"
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite seventeen sentences by changing the present tense verbs to future tense primarily with the verbs be and going to.
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Phrasal Verb Gap Fill R-S
In this ESL phrasal verb learning exercise, students read 13 sentences in which the verb is missing. Students insert a phrasal verb from the word bank.
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Adjectives: Finding Errors in Sentences
In this adjectives activity, 5th graders proofread 10 sentences to find the errors. They correct the errors by putting the adjectives in the proper position in each sentence.
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns 3
In this ESL countable and uncountable nouns learning exercise, students examine the list of 30 nouns and identify those that are uncountable nouns. Students may also write sentences using each of the words