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Academy of American Poets

Teach This Poem: "When There Were Ghosts" by Alberto Ríos

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Before cell phones, tablets, and computers with access to YouTube, before gleaming multiplexes and even before television, there were small theaters with Saturday night black and white movies. Alberto Ríos's poem "When There Were Ghosts"...
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Mi Dia

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students photograph themselves doing everyday activities.  In this foreign language instructional activity, students write grammatically correct sentences for a story board to tell about daily activities and then input into the...
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Hispanic and English Literature

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders listen to a brief history lesson about the 40's and 50's mid-West America and the Migrant workers that worked the fields. Next, learners will read a short story written by Tomas Rivera (both in Spanish and English)....
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Channel Islands Film

First Contact: Lesson Plan 4 - Grades 5-6

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
After watching Treasure in the Sea, a documentary about Channel Islands National Park and the video First Contact, about the voyage of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to the Channel islands, groups research and then compare the...
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A Family History

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate their family history through pictures and writing. For this family history lesson, students research family, culture, food, music, religion, and clothing. Students gather pictures of their family and events. Students...
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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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An English-Speaking World

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
An overview of the development of English as a global language fills out these slides. Beginning with statistics regarding how much of the world speaks English and to what capacity, a brief history is then given mostly pertaining to WWII...
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Pronouns

For Students 6th - 7th
For this grammar worksheet, students read twenty-three sentences and circle the correct pronoun in parenthesis. For example, "Your class was a treat for (we, us) students."
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Quiz--Conditional #4

For Students 4th - 5th
In this completing sentences instructional activity, students complete 17 sentences by filling in 26 blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.
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Penelope Cruz

For Students 4th - 8th
For this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Penelope Cruz and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Pablo Picasso

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous people worksheet, students read a passage about Pablo Picasso and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Presentations

For Students 4th - 10th
In this sentence completion instructional activity, learners choose the correct words to complete a presentation, sentences, a profile, and more. Students complete 4 sentences total.
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The Simple Future Tense

For Students 5th - 6th
In this simple future tense worksheet, learners read the rules for forming this tense. They write the correct form of the simple future tense using "will" in 7 sentences. They do the same using "going" in the next 7 sentences. They write...
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Jennifer Lopez

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people activity, students read about Jennifer Lopez and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to synonym matching, sequencing, writing, spelling and vocabulary activities.
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Using "And", "But", & "Or" Exercise

For Students 5th - 8th
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blank each sentence with either "and", "but" or "or". There are 10 sentences to complete on this worksheet.
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Using “And,” “But,” & “Or” Exercise

For Students 5th - 8th
In this conjunctions practice worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing 1 word each. Students fill in the blanks with "and", "but", or "or."
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Verb Tense Exercise 28

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of future continuous and future perfect continuous verbs. Students may submit their...
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Shakira

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Shakira and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
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Adjectives/participles Used As Adjectives --"ing" And "ed"

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, learners learn to use adjectives which end in "ed" and "ing" by completing 10 sentences. Students choose from 2 words to best complete the sentence. Example: What an ----trip! (exhausting, exhausted)
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Verbs; Simple Past (Regular Verbs)-2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, students complete sentences by filling in the blanks. Each sentence contains a hint that gives the student a clue as to the intended final meaning of the sentence.
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Pronouns

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate pronouns in parentheses that makes each sentence grammatically correct in twenty-three sentences.
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Gerunds and Infinitives 1

For Students 4th - 6th
In this gerunds and infinitives worksheet, students fill in the correct gerund or infinitive to the sentences that are missing them. Students complete 10 questions.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Nerd and Geek Pride Day

For Students 6th - 10th
In this language skills activity, students read an article about Nerd and Geek Pride Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short answer...
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Grammar Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students complete problems on editing sentences, analogies, plurals, grouping words, and proper nouns. Students complete 5 problems.

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