Baldwin Library: The Watch Fires of '76

What's the difference between its and it's? Clear up any misunderstandings in your third grade language arts class. Practice sentences use its or it's twice, prompting learners to use context clues for each usage. At the end of the...

Getting tired of correcting to, two, and too? What about weather and whether? Use a thorough lesson on homophones and homographs to clear up those differences. Fourth and fifth graders identify which words sound the same and are spelled...

Develop vocabulary in your young learners with this resource. There are a series of sentences here, and elementary schoolers must choose a word from the list to complete each of the 12 sentences. Example words include abolished,...

Practice personal pronouns with a special focus on subject and object pronouns. Learners read 20 sentences and circle the subject or object pronoun in each. They note which is present with an S or an O.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's nonfiction book Blue-Jackets of '76 by Frank Dobbins (1888). It is a history of the naval battles of the American revolution and a narrative of the war with Tripoli.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Round and Round: The Wheels Go Round When the Waterbury Is Well Wound by S.C. Patterson (c1887), a picture book of verse about the movement of a Waterbury watch.

Fourth graders explore an Ethiopian folktale, "Fire on the Mountain." In this literature lesson, 4th graders evaluate and record the evidence, as well as make predictions about what they think will happen. Students evaluate other groups...

Learners create a clay object in which they are to personify. They use their own personal experiences to help the viewer imagine what it would be like to be that particular object. They also watch videos of fables to help them with...

In this language arts worksheet, learners cross out the incorrect verb in each of 10 sentences. Students write the correct word which will be a verb ending in "ed" with a helping verb.

In this online/interactive grammar usage instructional activity, students read incomplete sentences and fill in the blanks with the verbs "must" or "mustn't". Students choose 32 answers.