A viewing of Disney’s 1993 film of The Adventures of Huck Finn launches an examination of the events in and themes of Mark Twain’s story. Viewers respond to prompts on a film story worksheet, engage in full-class discussions, and select...

Middle schoolers love listening to music, and they also love to listen to music. So what's the difference? Spell out the nuanced ways to use gerunds and infinitives with a 50-question grammar exercise. Given short sentences and verbs,...

Fourth graders complete a two-week unit on the U.S. Civil War and the Underground Railroad. They read the books "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and "Pink and Say," complete story maps, and dramatize a scene from "Follow the Drinking Gourd."...

Students confront fear through literature. In this literary elements lesson, students discuss fear and what they know about the horror genre of literature. Students then examine the painting "The Scream," by Edvard Munch and listen to a...

Students watch the movie "Cool Runnings", they identify and categorze examples of dreams and examples of goals reflected in the movie. They work in small groups and discuss the movie to begin to generate the concepts behind the terms...

Are you teaching the comma rules in your classroom? This resource packet covers several comma rules, gives examples of each, and provides short practice opportunities for your learners. Answers are not included. 

Students analyze the motivations behind characters. In this character analysis lesson, students reflect on conflicts from previous stories and watch a clip from 'East is East.' Students answer questions for the movie and watch the movie...

In this World Penguin worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...

In this compound sentences practice activity, learners use coordinating conjunctions to fill in the blanks in 10 compound sentences.

In this grammar learning exercise, students insert the correct coordinating conjunction in the blank of the each sentence. The conjunctions can be the following: and, or, but, so. There are 10 sentences to complete on this learning...

In this grammar worksheet, students complete the sentences by filling in the blanks with either "very" or "too". There are 18 sentences to complete.

For this language arts learning exercise, students read a sentence that contains a form of the verb "take." Students choose a synonym for this verb and circle the answer from 3 choices. Example: Let me take you around the office (show)....

By giving learners a conversation to follow, this activity helps them identify the meaning in context. Students complete this 7-question activity by filling in the correct phrase.

In this conversations worksheet, students read 8 short conversations. Students complete the conversations by writing the letter of the phrase that best tells what should be done.

In this future tense worksheet, students complete short conversations, using phrases given at the top of the page; conversations focus on the future tense. Appropriate for ELL, but not exclusive.

Tenth graders, in groups, participate in a simulation activity in which they are assigned a certain "status" role to play in a given situation. After the simulation, they reveal their status roles and discuss what they observed. They...

In this English worksheet, students read " Record Bank Robbery in Brazil," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.

In this language arts worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about punctuation, parts of speech, research process and more. Students complete 25 questions.

In this ESL worksheet, students read 60 scenarios. In each scenario, students choose which situation they would prefer and why.