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Narrative Writing: Using Exact Words
Review the narrative writing process with your emerging story writers. They read a sample narrative and identify five vague verbs that could be replaced with a more exact, exciting verb. Then they write a personal narrative making sure...
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The Hobbit: Novel Study
All it takes is a little adventure to interrupt a quiet, simple life. A study guide for The Hobbit explores the adventures that disrupt Bilbo Baggins' quiet life. Questions discuss key events found within J.R.R. Tolkien's novel and...
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Comparisons of the Past Simple and Present Perfect Verb Tenses
In this past simple and present perfect verb tense worksheet, students study two tables that show the proper use of the verb tenses. They complete 7 sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct verb tense.
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English Simple Perfect Tenses
Quiz class members on the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses with a helpful grammar presentation. Before learners practice their skills, they view the definition of each tense, complete with correct examples and...
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What Do You Want to Do? 3
For this ESL verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict a specific action. Students match each picture with the verb or verb phrase that best describes each action shown.
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Actions 2
For this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict actions. Students match these with the verbs that describe them.
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Actions
In this ESL verbs word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict various actions. Students read the question and answer it in a complete sentence that tells about the action in the picture.
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Actions Match 2
In this ESL actions vocabulary activity, students analyze 7 pictures that show actions. Students match these to the vocabulary words that name the actions.
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Verbs
In this ESL verbs vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures with the verbs that describe them.
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Verbs
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that show people in action. From 4 choices, students select the correct verb that fills in a space in the sentence that describes the picture.
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Verbs
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures to the verbs that describe them.
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Verb Match 2
In this ESL verbs vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures to the verbs that describe them.
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ESL Verbs Matching Worksheet
In this ESL verbs matching activity, students examine 10 clip art pictures of people doing something. They match the picture to the word that names the action such as wave, shout, knock, or tear.
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Active Beginnings
Help your pupils build narratives and stories that capture the attention of their readers with this set of worksheets. The first focuses on active introductory sentences, the second on exciting transition words and phrases, and the third...
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What's Happening?
Young scholars participate in a grammar game. They identify verbs, adverbs and phrases. They complete a quiz at the end of the lesson to determine how much practice they still need.
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Running on Faith
Students listen to the song, "Running on Faith" by Eric Clapton. They listen for the present perfect verb tense used in the song and then practice writing sentences in this verb tense and others previously studied.
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video
Students practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
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Simple Present
In this ESL present simple verb tense activity, students examine 7 pictures of people in action. Students match these to the verbs that describe them.
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ESL What are They Doing? Worksheet
In this ESL verb identification instructional activity, students look as small black and white pictures of people doing different things. They answer questions based on the pictures such as "What is he doing?"
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Transportation
Here's an interesting instructional activity that combines elements of language arts, sociology, and a study of the many ways that people use transportation to get from one place to another. The eight-page plan includes worksheets and a...
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Modify My Action
Third graders listen to directions as they perform a theatrical role. In this vocabulary lesson, 3rd graders listen to and observe the adjectives given to them during a practice of their performance by the director. Students identify...
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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"Contraction Action"
Students read and spell common contractions formed from a verb paired with the word not. They read and spell common contractions formed from a pronoun paired with a verb.
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The Sequential Teaching of Writing Skills at Grade Eight
Eighth graders are introduced to the techniques to write properly. As a class, they practice writing complete sentences and discover how to avoid run-on sentences. In groups, they review action and state of being verbs and practice...