PBS
Does Art Imitate Life?
Write what you know, sound advice for any writer and something many famous authors are known to have done. Use these materials to explore how Shakespeare's life influenced his plays. This resource is packed with readings, video segments,...
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I Have a Metaphor
Learners locate the literary devices used in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. In this figurative language lesson plan, students first distinguish between similes, metaphors, analogies, personification, etc. Learners...
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Learning Vocabulary by Using Reference Materials
Finding engaging ways to help your middle schoolers build their vocabulary is not easy to do. The lesson presented here offers a great way to motivate them to build vocabulary by making it into a game. Teams of pupils use a dictionary...
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Vivid Adjectives
Students review adjectives and play a game where students compete to see who can write the most adjectives for a given noun. They write a story about one topic and try to use a variety of adjectives in sequence tto describe a noun.
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What Makes Day and Night?
In this What Makes Day and Night worksheet, students explain what makes day and night by looking at pictures of the earth and sun and reading 11 related words. Students also write interview questions for a scientist and investigate day...
The New York Times
Stress Less: Understanding How Your Mind and Body Respond to Anxiety
What could be more relevant to teens and preteens than experiencing stress? Use an article from the New York Times website to practice valuable Common Core skills for informational text reading, and also get a discussion going in your...
Student Achievement Partners
Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"
Passages from Unbroken and Farewell to Manzanar provide the context for a study of the historical themes of experiencing war, resilience during war, and understanding the lasting trauma of war. Appendices include extension...
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Adverb or Adjective? Who's Wearing the -LY?
In this adjectives and adverbs worksheet, students read and look at the underlined word in 8 sentences and write on the blank line in front of each one whether they are an adjective or an adverb. Students fill in the blanks or answer...
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Quiz 1A: Using Where, When, What Time, and Why
In this grammar worksheet, students write 10 original questions using the information given in each sentence. Students write their questions using the interrogative terms where, when, what time and why.
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Adverbs
Fifth graders complete a worksheet where they must fill in the blanks with the correct adverb. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders learn all about adverbs and when and where to use them. Students cut action pictures out of a...
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Adjective Games and Associated Worksheets
In this adjective games worksheet, students use adjective wheels, practice spelling adjectives, combine roots words to create an adjective, and explain how different objects using adjectives. Teachers are given detailed information on...
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Sentence Combining
In this grammar worksheet, students practice rewriting, adding on and combining fifty-seven sentences into compound sentences that convey more information and are grammatically correct.
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Adverbs 2
In this vocabulary worksheet, students write the definition of 10 adverbs. Students also write 3 sentences using each adverb.
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Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
In this pronouns and possessive adjectives worksheet, students identify usage in sentences. In this short answer worksheet, students write sixteen answers.
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Superlative Adjectives
For this superlative adjectives worksheet, students read a review of adjectives with -est suffixes, and adjectives followed by of, in, on, etc.. Students apply the information to fill in blanks and create sentences to write twenty-one...
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Important Events
In this informative worksheet, students, working in groups, formulate 7 questions about important events and discoveries and then write the answers to their questions on the lines provided. Students change the verb in parentheses to its...
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Who and Whom Whoever and Whomever Worksheet
In this pronouns worksheet, learners read 30 sentences and fill in the blank in each sentence with 1 of 4 specific pronouns. Students write their answers on the lines provided.
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Plural of Noun Formation Practice #1
For this plural nouns practice worksheet, young scholars read an informative lesson about plural nouns. Students then respond to 20 questions that require them to make the shown nouns plural.
East Lyme Public Schools
To Declare or Not to Declare Independence?
Class members adopt the persona of real figures in American history, Patriots and Loyalists, research these individuals to determine their stance, and then debate the question of whether or not to declare independence from...
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Environmental Health Impromptu Talk
Students learn the criteria for and create the framework of an impromptu speech about an environmental health issue that is especially important to them. Students write a speech about an environmental health problem based on the material...
Salmon Schools
Presentation Preparation Guildeline
What's next? Once seniors have completed a job exploration project (or any project for that matter) they prepare a speech for judges in which they describe their project, reflect on what have learned about the subject, and what they...
California Education Partners
Gettysburg Address
Looking for an assessment that reveals how well readers understand complex text? Check out an assessment module based on "The Gettysburg Address." Pupils are asked to craft an essay that demonstrates their understanding not only of...
City University of New York
Urban Politics: Machines and Reformers
Take a trip to the turn of the twentieth century with a resource about industrialism in America. With primary source documents and focus questions, learners think about the ways that government groups and organizations paved the way...