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Mardi Gras Madness
CStudents create a sensory chart in on the topic of Mardi Gras. They design a brainstorm web using Inspiration and complete creative writing assignment. Students write a poem about Mardi Gras that is presented to the class at the final...
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Worksheet 8. Vocabulary Practice
In this vocabulary worksheet, students complete the sentences with the correct word or phrase from the word pool. There are 9 sentences to complete.
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Future Time With "Going To"
For this future tense verbs worksheet, students complete ten sentences with verbs from the word box. All sentences will show future tense with the words "going to".
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Vocabulary and Punctuation
In this grammar worksheet, learners practice their vocabulary. Students complete twelve sentences by inserting the proper word into the sentence.
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Worksheet 8. Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students complete the 9 sentences on the page using the 9 words in the word bank. The words all have to do with food.
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Worksheet 7. Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 2: Definitions
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read the Jamaican Bobsledding Team, Part 2. They then select the best option to complete the 14 sentences on this page.
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Slangman
In this slang worksheet, students complete 25 questions where they edit sentences, match literal meanings to slang terms, and fill in the blanks with vocabulary. Extra credit is available.
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How Worldly Are You?
Sixth graders locate and map six components to have a working knowledge of maps. In this map skills lesson, 6th graders define the six map components and work in groups to draw a map using the components. Students read a related story...
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Seventh Grade Essay Unit
Seventh graders write a five paragraph essay and then branch out from there.
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Basic Letter Response to a Writing Prompt
Learners respond to a writing prompt using appropriate letter format. For this letter writing lesson, students discuss the format for letter writing and use the worksheet format to write the heading, inside address, and salutation....
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Cause and Effect Writing
Students practice their writing skills. In this cause and effect writing lesson plan, students use the provided framework to write a cause and effect story in the style of If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
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Alien Pen Pals
Learners write a friendly letter to an Alien Pen Pal including details about the planet Earth.
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Worksheet 7. Nouns and Verbs (Birds)
In this birds reading comprehension activity, students read a passage about birds and respond to 8 multiple choice questions regarding the paragraph. Some questions have more than 1 correct answer.
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Rhyme Rally
Students are introduced to rhyming words and practice identifying them in a story or poem. In this rhyming words lesson, students listen to a story while paying listening for rhyming words in the story. Students then replace rhyming...
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Short Story
Seventh graders identify the various elements of a short story. After reading Rudyard Kipling's short story, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," students identify the author's purpose in writing the story as well as the elements that make it a short...
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Microsoft Word~About the Author
Fourth graders investigate how to create a document named "About The Author". The teacher uses a LCD projector to guide the instruction and provide examples for the class. They also include graphics in the document and practice accessing...
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Using the Present Progressive: Verbs- Present Activities
In this present progressive verb worksheet, students analyze 8 pictures and determine what the people are doing. Students match each picture with the present progressive verb in the verb bank.
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Puzzling Verbs
Third graders complete a crossword puzzle. In this past tense words lesson, 3rd graders write past tense verbs and review what past tense means. Students review homophones and complete a worksheet where they complete a crossword puzzle...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Avoiding Run on Sentences and Comma Splices
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
City University of New York
College of Staten Island Library: How to Write an Essay
Resource defines what an essay is, the parts of an essay and their functions, and also discusses the editing process and how important it is to check a draft for completeness and high quality. Includes a link to an online guide to citing...