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Creativity Exercise - Describe the Sky
Scholars stretch their writing muscles with an exercise that asks them to describe the sky using similes and metaphors.
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Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of...
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Past Continuous Game
Your pupils were studying the past continuous when you realized that they could benefit from this game! Learners roll a die and complete the sentence they land on. They will have a chance to begin and end sentences.
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Subjects, Predicates, and Objects
Improve sentence structure in your sixth graders' writing with a brief explanation of subjects, objects, and predicates. The last five practice slides prompt pupils to copy down the sentences, underline the subjects, circle the...
K12 Reader
An Adverb Can Tell How
The -ly adverbs are the focus of a worksheet that asks kids to select adverbs from the provided word bank to add additional information about how the action of the sentence takes place.
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Sk8er Boi (Skater Boy)
Students listen to and analyze the lyrics for Avril Lavigne's song, Sk8er Boi. They discuss and interpret the vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and various grammar structures used in the lyrics.
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Monkey and Rabbit Together
Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Present Perfect 2
Get your budding grammarians ready to finish sentences. There are 12 sentences on this online worksheet, and all of them are missing their present perfect verbs. All they need to do is type the correct verb into each blank and then click...
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Verb Tense Exercise 24
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, students answer 16 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of simple present, simple future, present continuous, and future continuous...
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Conjunctions
Complete exercises for conjunctions in this conjunctions lesson. Middle schoolers work in pairs to combine sample sentences. They analyze the conjunctions and choose one to help them rewrite the sentences. Additionally, they may complete...
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Past Tense 5
Which past tense verb to use? Kids can plug-in and complete this online learning exercise to practice verb tense. They read the first sentence in order to help them choose the past tense verb that would finish the second sentence. There...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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Sentence Puzzle Race
Students create sentences based on the word cards they are given. In this sentences lesson plan, students work in teams and get points for correct sentences.
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Visible Speech: What is a Sentence?
Use this straightforward presentation as a basic guide to your grammar unit. With explanations of the parts of a simple sentence (subject, verb, direct object), the slideshow is a good way to reinforce students' prior knowledge about...
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Sports and Hobbies
Students explore vocabulary related to sports and hobbies. They consider their interests in sports and hobbies in relation to other students. They discuss music and describe a piece of music using simple adjectives.
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Action Verbs - They're What You Do
Even though it may seem like a simple concept, identifying and using verbs can be challenging for younger students. Using this presentation, a teacher could provide an easy to understand review of verb usage.
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Fragments: Pretenders - Not Really Sentences
Give your class a concise overview of sentence fragments and how to repair them. This simple, not-too-long PowerPoint reinforces the idea that a correct sentence needs a subject and a verb and must be a complete thought.
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Have and Have Got
In this have and have got worksheet, students choose either the word have or have got to make the sentence correct and then correct sentences that are wrong. Students complete 6 sets of problems.
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Past Perfect 3
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and write the given verbs in past perfect tense. Students complete 15 exercises.
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News Radio Activity
In this news radio worksheet, students read sentences taken from a news radio program and decide if it is in the simple present or present progressive tense. Students complete 20 problems and if it is in the present progressive, they...
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Future Tense 4
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with a verb in the future tense. Students complete 15 online exercises.
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Present Tense - Negation 3
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and write the sentences using present tense into negation. Students complete 15 exercises.