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Lesson Plan 2: Good Novel, Bad Novel
What are the characteristics of a good piece of writing? What makes a story interesting? Give your pupils a chance to define the qualities of good novels and what they see as the qualities of bad novels. Class members record these...
Curated OER
Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs
Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward learning exercise on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the parts of...
Curated OER
Grammar Practice: Parallel Structure
Help your young writers improve the clarity of their sentences by showing them how to create parallel structures as they construct sentences. Two exercises give kids practice identifying the correct parallel structure and crafting...
English Linx
Four Kinds of Sentence Worksheet
Sentences are more than just a group of words that have a subject, verb, and predicate. Introduce the four kinds of sentences to your young writers and have them practice their new skills with a worksheet. Clear examples and definitions...
Bright Hub Education
How to Use Commas Correctly
Commas can be quite confusing. Young writers target troublesome grammar skills by focusing on the four most troubling uses: joining two independent clauses, separating introductory materials in a sentence, separating unnecessary...
Curated OER
Who/Whom
Mixing up who and whom is a common mistake made by young writers. After a lesson on the topic, assign the activity provided here for practice. There are 10 sentences on the page. Class members circle who or whom to make each sentence...
Curated OER
An Adult Who Influenced Me
Writers are challenged to think back to their childhood, and recall an adult who had an influence on them. They use this simple worksheet to write down their thoughts and images of the person they remember. This would be a good worksheet...
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Reported Requests and Orders
A lot of practice in writing exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative sentences is here. Writers change twenty direct speech sentences into reported speech. They create their own sentences in reported speech.
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Printing Practice-- Words with "--ink" Ending
Learners trace, then write four words which end with the rhyming pattern -ink. They use two of the words in a sentence, printing them correctly on the primary lines, and illustrate one of their sentences. Incorporate multiple...
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Dream Drawing
Inspired by the famous quote from Vincent van Gogh, "I dream my paintings and then I paint my dream," young artists are directed to first write about one of their dreams and then draw a picture of it. This worksheet provides wide-lined...
Curated OER
Capital Letters
Learners trace the capital letters on the page to practice their printing. They trace the entire alphabet five times. Fantastic practice for young writers.
Lesson Snips
Taking Responsibility
Billy finds himself in many difficult situations because he is unsure about how and when to take responsibility. Collaborative groups work together to answer if Billy made responsible choices and what he should have done instead....
Curated OER
ESL Vocabulary Word Search: Classroom
Six word searches help early readers and writers to practice writing and spelling typical classroom vocabulary. Each puzzle includes the same words, but the puzzles are each different.
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Connect the Dots and Write: Classroom
Beginning readers and writers connect the dots from images to words while practicing printing. A second activity requires that they determine what letter(s) is missing from the same list of words.
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Polite Expressions
Practice effective oral language use. English learners especially, but any speaker/writers would benefit from this resource. Learners listen as the teacher reads each of 15 short scenarios. They circle the polite response to each...
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Verb Forms: Second Conditional
Which verb tenses can you use when writing with the conditional tense? Clear up the common mistakes with this second conditional learning exercise. Young writers choose the correct verb tense to complete a sentence. They choose from four...
Curated OER
Academic Writing Worksheet
Academic writing is characterized by certain phrases. Young writers are asked to indicate where, in an academic paper, phrases like, having said that, most experts agree that, the generally accepted view is that, etc. would appear....
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Tens and Ones Place Value Worksheet
Here's a worksheet that provides opportunities to dissect 2-digit numbers into tens and ones. Given 6 numbers, learners write the 10s digit in a box and the digit in the ones place in another. With large type and sizable boxes, this tool...
Curated OER
Prefixes and Suffixes Week 20
Here is a basic printing practice worksheet for young writers. They trace and rewrite ten prefixes and suffixes on the provided lines.
Curated OER
The Leprechaun's Treasure
Here is a good parts of sentences worksheet that uses leprechauns! Young writers read sentences about a leprechaun's treasure and then circle the predicates, underline the subjects, and double underline the phrases. They do this for 20...
Curated OER
Things That Start with E: Worksheet 2
Young writers trace examples of DeNelian upper and lower case letter Ee as well as words beginning with E. They practice on the primary lines. One nice thing about this worksheet is that learners write actual words.
Curated OER
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Exercise 2
Getting tired of seeing dangling or misplaced modifiers in your students' writing? Use this grammar activity to reinforce the importance of careful reading and editing. Young writers find the sentence that has no misplaced or dangling...
San José State University
Prepositions of Time
On, at, in, since, for, during, within... what do all of these words have in common? They are prepositions and they are all prepositions that are included on this hand-out. This handout breaks down prepositions used when talking about...
San José State University
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Beginning with a definition and a few corrected examples, this resource shows how comma splices can be identified and then eliminated. Four sentences are enumerated for writers to practice in order to avoid comma splices themselves.
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