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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.1
Despite English grammar rules, in the e-world the plural of mouse is mouses. lol. Standard American English is constantly evolving. Introduce your class members to a variety of terms that describe different usage changes (economy,...
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Enhancing Your Writing
Help your class enrich their writing using this presentation. It focuses on direct and indirect speech, and identifies the way to incorporate it into writing. It provides a great way to review punctuation rules and usage as well.
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English Exercises: Using What in an Exclamation
For this using 'what' in an exclamation worksheet, 5th graders interactively fill in 10 exclamatory sentences with the correct form of what, with immediate online feedback.
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English Exercises: Advanced Adverbs
For this advanced adverbs worksheet, 8th graders interactively select the sentence that fits the meaning given, based on the placement of the adverb, for 20 sentences, with immediate online feedback.
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English Exercises: Present Continuous For Beginners
For this present continuous for beginners worksheet, 4th graders interactively select the correct word to complete 21 sentences with animated illustrations and immediate online feedback.
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English Exercises: Idioms about Garfield, Cool Cat
In this English exercises: idioms about Garfield, cool cat worksheet, 6th graders watch the video, interactively unscramble 4 lines to the song, fill in 10 more word in the lyrics, match 10 cat idioms with their meaning, then write a...
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CTBS Usage Practice #2
For this CTBS practice worksheet, students identify topic sentences, simple subject, and simple predicate. They also combine multiple sentences and identify sentences that do not belong in a paragraph. Students answer nineteen...
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Teaching Descriptive Word Usage
Second graders practice their creative writing by using descriptive words. In this language arts lesson plan, 2nd graders utilize their best descriptive writing to elaborate on one of 20 different bean bag characters. Students listen...
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A Long Way Gone
The memoir A Long Way Gone tells the story of a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. A crossword puzzle helps reinforce key ideas found in the memoir. The puzzle addresses characters, key events, and other details from the...
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Analyzing Interaction: Categories of Water Management in The Big Thirst
It's puzzle time! Pupils participate in a jigsaw activity to discuss the various uses of water, including personal, agricultural, and industrial uses. They also conduct a close reading of The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman and answer...
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Module 11--Rules and Freedom
In this verb usage worksheet, learners determine if ten rules are true or false and if false change the underlined verb so that they are true. Students match five laws that were put into practice with the time period that they were...
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EINSTEIN CLUB
Sixth graders write sentences showing correct usage of each word for one point per word and define the words for tow points per word. There are thirty possible points. Each day I tally the points each day and keep a cumulative score for...
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Speak Write! Understanding the Hidden Meaning of Words
Students investigate connotation and denotation as a basis for greater examining of language. They identify the literal meaning of words and explore the greater implications and impact of word usage.
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Goldie Girl and There, Their, and They're: Homophones and Homographs
Instruct your class on homonyms and homophones. Learners take a pre-test and examine a list of homophones. They also play online word games to practice spelling and usage and write a fairy tale in which they use at least 10 homophones....
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Troublesome Word Pairs
This worksheet helps to understand when to use commonly confused words. It includes definitions, writing exercises, and questions that require paraphrasing the meaning of sentences. A good exercise for middle schoolers, or review for...
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Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Intended for learners struggling with or having issues using auxiliary verbs, this activity has them orally compose sentences using one of the provided helping verbs. They will attempt to find patterns in groups of verbs and make class...
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The Subjunctive
How are subjunctives incorporated into the writing process? Young grammarians investigate the proper usage of the subjunctive mood, and combine parts of sentences from one column with those from another column to make eight logical...
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Simple or Progressive
Proper verb usage is reviewed in this worksheet. Students fill in the blanks in 10 multiple choice questions relating to verbs.
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Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
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Verb Review 1: Present/Past
Use this worksheet (with four mini-exercises) to sum up skills learned about various verb forms and usage rules. It covers present, present progressive, past simple, and future tenses in regular and irregular verbs. Young grammarians...
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Consumer Scams
Letter writing may be outdated but it's a great way to practice English conventions, grammar, and spelling. The class researches consumer scams, then writes a letter about them. They each choose a scam to write about paying close...
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Pronouns: Interrogative, Demonstrative, Indefinite
English language pronouns pose special usage challenges. The second session about them on EnglishCramSchool.com addresses interrogative, demonstrative, and indefinite pronouns. Aspiring grammarians review rules and information,...
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Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses
When should you use a colon, dash, or hyphen? Middle schoolers insert different types of punctuation marks into given sentences. Rules for usage are included in each example.
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My Daily Routine
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...