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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards

This page gives students specific guidelines & tips for a descriptive writing assignment. Students can publish descriptive writing here, as well. A thorough teacher's guide to descriptive writing is also provided.

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Berkeley County Schools: 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Folder

For Students K - 1st Standards

This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.

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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Community: I Am a Scientist

For Students K - 1st Standards

This book shows some of the many different types of scientists. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.

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Grammar: English Basics Worksheets

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards

Excellent and comprehensive collection of worksheets for students' grammar skills. Includes exercises on complete sentences, analogies, synonyms/antonyms, and more.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Semantic Gradients

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Use the strategy of determining semantic gradients (shades of meaning) to help students improve their vocabulary and understanding of related words.

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Location

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Common Core standards specify the requirement for children to use frequently occurring prepositions. Mastering this standard will help students formulate compound sentences as they go up in grade levels. In this instructional activity,...

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Better Lesson: Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

In this activity, students will listen to stories and determine the meaning of the word by using sentence-level context clues. They will think about the verbs that are used and think about how that verb appeals to their senses, giving...

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CPALMS

Cpalms: The Lesson Formerly Known as "Wassssuuup"

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are actively engaged in learning how formal and informal language are used in written and oral communications. Downloadable handouts are provided.

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Better Lesson: Topic Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Often, we ask students to find the main idea in the story- this helps when re-telling. Why not apply this idea to writing? Find the main idea and introduce your writing with that idea; just like with a book, it helps with re-telling!...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing

For Students 1st - 5th Standards

This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...

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Arcademics

Arcademics: Word Invasion

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards

Practice parts of speech by zapping "jellyfish" words that match the word type provided. Students can select the part(s) of speech they want the game to focus on, as well as the level of difficulty and speed of the game.

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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Prepositions Exercise 20

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on using the correct Prepositions for each sentence. It is suitable for ESL as well as regular English classes.

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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Esl Quiz: What's the Correct Word Order?

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards

In this ESL quiz, students click on words and end punctuation in the order needed to make correct sentences. There are 39 different sentences in this quiz. Java is required.

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