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The Use of Signal Words in Writing
Students examine the use of transition or signal word to create good paragraph organization.
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Using Compare and Contrast Key Words
Compare and contrast while challenging your class with this higher-level thinking and reading comprehension lesson. After observing the teacher model comparing and contrasting bats and birds, learners read passages about two towns. They...
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Although, Despite, and In Spite of Exercise
Class members read example sentences using although, despite, or in spite of properly, use them to fill in the blanks to complete sentences, and create personal examples. Students answer 21 questions.
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I OBJECT! Understanding Transitive Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students learn how to use transitive verbs in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 17 questions on the worksheet. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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High School Transition Plan
Students practice basic workplace skills. For this school-to-job transition lesson plan, students participate in 4 activities that require them to take assessments in work readiness.
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Roots
Young scholars are introduced to Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes. They are given a lesson on ten root words that students identify the correct meaning of the words. Young scholars design cards that are divided into four parts.
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Sight Word Line-Up
Young scholars use sight words to correctly line up. They are given a card and are to match it up with the set taped to the floor. They read each card and show it to the class before they move to their destination.
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Confusing Words: Rise and Raise
For this confusing words: rise and raise worksheet, students read the explanations and examples for correct usage of these two words, then interactively complete 10 sentences for practice with immediate online feedback.
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Starting Something New
Learners write a short composition about learning something new that is hard to do after reviewing the nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions in a picture-word bank.
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Grammar Practice: Lie vs. Lay
Are your pupils caught in the lie/lay confusion? Give them extra practice with a instructional activity that defines the difference in meaning, conjugates the words, and gives examples of how the two verbs are used. Learners then...
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Parts of Speech
This online multiple choice quiz focuses on upper-level grammar concepts. In addition to covering simple parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, this resource also covers more advanced information, such as transitive vs....
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Prop Box
What other uses can you brainstorm for a key? What about a pair of sunglasses? Bring a bag of props into your classroom and have learners create different uses for a selection of objects. Then, after everyone has shared, translate the...
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Interpreting Algebraic Expressions
Interpreting algebraic expressions is a fundamental skill in beginning algebra. This lesson approaches the task in numerous ways. First, learners assess their understanding with a short worksheet on converting between words and...
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Describing Paintings: Calm or Stormy
Young writers use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to describe details in two paintings. One depicts a sunny landscape, and the other shows a cloudier view. They write a narrative inspired by the paintings, paying attention to transitional...
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Paragraph Review
Use a worksheet to help learners identify the topic sentence and transitional words. They eliminate sentences that do not belong in the paragraph and name the pattern of organization used. Great for homework or extra credit.
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The Personal Narrative - Part One
Read to write! The class lists sensory details based on the plot of a story they have recently read. They create a drawing of a bracelet and use the bracelet's jewels or charms to list sensory details included in the story. They then use...
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Dessert Time!
First do this and then do that. Next do this and after do that. Young readers read about the order each person in the story gets dessert, before answering the who, the what, and the how in the reading passage.
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So & So That
When do you use "so" or "so that"? Practice this skill with your ESL students in this worksheet, which includes twenty multiple-choice questions. Each question prompts English learners to choose the correct way to complete the sentence.
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Ordinary People: Desktop Teaching
Turn the pupil into the teacher to help your learners pick up and retain vocabulary from Ordinary People by Judith Guest. Each individual selects a word, studies it in depth, and then teaches their word to the rest of the class, one...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We Can Do It!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 10)
English language development lessons are brought to you in poems, picture cards, and grand discussions in a We Can Do It! themed unit. Topics of discussion include daily challenges, parts of a whole, words that describe what we hear,...
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The Painted Essay: Writing Proof Paragraphs
Words of proof. Learners continue coding The Electric Motor by marking the first point in yellow and the second point in blue. They discuss the structure of the paragraphs by identifying transition words and evidence to support the given...
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Writing Dialogue: Revising Historical Narrative Drafts to Add Dialogue
Young writers have written, revised, and peer-edited their historical fiction narratives by the 10th lesson plan in a language arts unit. Fourth graders finally combine their revision notes to create a second draft. The double-spaced...
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Grade 10 ELA Module 3: Unit 3, Lesson 6
And that's a wrap! Scholars create their concluding statement drafts by examining model text with exemplar conclusions. In pairs, they discuss how transitional words and phrases add to sentence structure and consider how their concluding...
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English Grammar and Usage: Short Answer Quiz/Review
This comprehensive assessment tool covers parts of speech, transitivity, punctuation, common usage errors, and verb tense. Your budding grammarians demonstrate knowledge of an array of discrete points of correct usage in English. I'd use...
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