Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Rooting Out Words
Three categories of words and four skill levels challenge players to identify the roots for the names of months, for numbers and numerical terms, and for a range of other words based on commonly used roots.
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I Buzzle: Group Discussion Activities
Group discussion activities help at several levels, may it be professional or personal. The following article will highlight the importance of these activities and provide you with examples. The activities described can help with warming...
Sam Houston State University
Sam Houston State University: Inferences I: Post Test
Read four short texts and make inferences in order to answer six multiple-choice questions.
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Skills Workshop: Listening for the Main Points [Pdf]
A simple exercise where students listen to a reading passage read out loud and identify the key pieces of information.
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Grammar Monster: Using a Comma After an Interjection
Notes and examples to show how commas are used with interjections.
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Rhl School: Commas in Direct Address
Look at examples and practice using commas correctly in sentences with nouns of direct address.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Violence & Video Games, the Debate
In this instructional activity, 6th graders read and discuss an article about video games and violence, then participate in a debate. They are divided into groups and each group prepares an argument and their evidence, then one person...
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Rudolph Academy: Figurative Language Quizzes and Practice Exercises
This site offers a multitude of figurative language quizzes (some by grade level), a PowerPoint presentation and links to much more. It features a 30 question quiz asking students to either read or listen to statements and then select...
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Schoolhouse Rock: Interjections!
This site from Schoolhouse Rock provides the lyrics for the grammar rock song about interjections. This old song will help you remember what interjections are and how they work. It is taken from the old cartoon series, Schoolhouse Rock.
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Smart Technologies: Effective meetings.com: Are You a Good Listener?
"A big part of being an effective team member is being a good listener." Here you'll find a set of tips, based on the letters in the word, "ladder," that will enhance your interpersonal communication. Cursor down to get the information....
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Verbs and Prepositions (2)
Complete each of the 25 sentences in this exercise by typing the correct preposition into the box. Hint are available if needed, and answers can be checked when finished.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation
While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community. Perhaps this is why the core standards...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Context Clues With Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on using context clues within a sentences to determine the meaning of an unknown word. Additional skills of prefixes and root words are included. Answer pages are provided for each practice activity.
Grammar Tips
Control Your "Self": Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns
This resource explains the proper use of reflexive pronouns -- giving examples of both correct and incorrect usage.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Verbs and Prepositions (1)
Complete each of the 25 sentences in this exercise by typing the correct preposition into the box. Hint are available if needed, and answers can be checked when finished.
College Claparede (Switzerland)
English Exercises Online: Conjunctions (2)
Complete each sentence by typing the conjunction in the box to show the correct relationship between the independent clauses in the sentence. Hints are available if needed, and answers can be checked after each sentence.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Think, Write, Read: Expository Writing
While this lesson's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, students will write an expository...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dialogue With Student Created Characters
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand the importance of character development when writing stories of their own. It also helps them understand the process authors use when writing novels and other stories. During this...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Making Inferences [Pdf]
A graphic organizer designed to help students connect information from the text with personal experience to make an inference.
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Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar Rock: Conjunction Junction
This site from Schoolhouse Rock, although not officially affiliated with the Saturday morning "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons, reproduces the lyrics to the song "Conjunction Junction." A humorous yet accurate explanation of the rules of...