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The Outsiders
Tenth graders complete a variety of activities related to the first two chapters of the book The Outsiders. They define metaphor, simile, idiom, and hyperbole, and take a vocabulary pre-quiz. In small groups, they write a character...
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"The Gunny Wolf": American Folktale
While you tell the story of "The Gunny Wolf," your class will actively participate by asking questions and clarifying. Next, they answer questions about the story to increase comprehension before creating a storyboard to document the...
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Topic: English - 'Making Connections' - Coordinating Conjunctions
In this sentence writing instructional activity, students learn about using conjunctions in sentences. They then use what they learned to answer the 6 questions on the instructional activity. The answers are on the last page.
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Football Manager 2011 - Use of English
For this computer games worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences and write an essay about advantages and disadvantages of computer games. Students complete 2 tasks.
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Foreign Root Words: The Ancestors of English Words
In this root word worksheet, students use given definition to choose the best foreign root word that explains highlighted words in sentences.
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Grammar Test
First graders read sentences and then rewrite each one as an interrogative sentence. Students write eight questions. They partner up and read their sentences to a peer.
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Prepositions After Adjectives
Practice reading context clues with a set of ten sentences within a grammar instructional activity. As they examine each sentence, readers choose which preposition would be most appropriate after the adjective shown.
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Participles Used As Adjectives
Is a movie interesting or interested? Use context clues to decide which participle would be the most appropriate in each of ten sentences.
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Non Fiction Posters
A set of very useful posters (in PDF) describing different types of non-fiction texts is here for you. While there isn't an activity, per se, in these worksheets, they could be used as a handy reference for learners who are engaging in...
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Finding Main Ideas
Elementary schoolers read paragraphs one at a time in order to pick out the main ideas. They choose which sentences are most important in a paragraph. This type of exercise prepares learners to identify the main idea in longer narratives.
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Goals and Perseverance
Define the word perseverance to have learners understand why it is important in reaching goals. Young scholars research how Martin Luther King needed perseverance to accomplish his goals. They write acrostic poems using the word...
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Language Arts: Sentence Variety and Fluency
Students are able to identify, create, and evaluate three kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. They are able identify the purpose of various sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, and...
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Interrogative Sentences
In this interrogative sentences worksheet, students write interrogative sentences for each of the subjects given. Students complete 25 sentences.
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Declarative Sentences
In this declarative sentences worksheet, students write a declarative sentence for each subject given. Students write 26 sentences total.
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Exclamatory Sentences
In this exclamatory sentences instructional activity, students write exclamatory sentences for each subject given. Students complete this for 26 sentences.
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Hands on Essays
Third graders relate the concept of individuality of geometric shapes to the individuality of topic sentences. They write and revise a persuasive argument essay using an established rubric.
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Clauses: The Trilogy
In this three types of clauses worksheet, students read sentences with highlighted clauses and identify them as noun, adverb, or adjective clauses. Students fill in the blanks in ten sentences.
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Revising For Parallel Structure Worksheet 3
In this grammar activity, students read and rewrite the italicized part of twenty sentences to make each one parallel with the rest of the sentence.
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Describe common actions and objects in specific and general language
Having a diverse and well-developed vocabulary make for both good readers and good writers. The class discusses basic grammar, such as nouns, verb, and adjectives. They then view a series of pictures and work as a class to create simple...
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Analogies 1 (Level 7)
Analogies are a great tool for teaching word relationships. For this worksheet, learners complete 10 analogies using the bridge sentences provided to help them make the correct connections.
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Past Simple / Past Participle : Irregular verbs
Here is a basic online interactive practice page for 10 common irregular verbs. Learners find the present tense forms in a word search, conjugate them in the past and past participle, and fill in the blanks with the correct past tense...
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Analogies 2 (Level 6)
Activate analogy skills with a straightforward exercise. Learners complete 10 analogies, using the bridge sentences provided as support while they determine word relationships.
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Wonderful Words for Writing!
Twenty slides make up a set of festive, May-themed writing prompts designed to grab scholars' attention and warm-up their writing skills. Prompts include story starters, holidays, research questions, the five senses, and more!
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Communicative Group Activity: What's Your Opinion?
Students participate in a topic discussion in English. They choose a topic from a group of cards and then give their opinion on what was read. The other students have to offer their opinions as well in English.