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A New Year’s Celebration
You can reflect on the past and celebrate the future with these motivating activities.
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Rock & Roll through Literary Terms: An Upbeat Lyrical Adventure
Learners participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their...
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Poetic Devices
In this figurative language worksheet, students read and study examples of simile and metaphor. There are 20 questions to be used with Smartboard and 10 questions in which students identify similes or metaphors.
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Negative Imperatives and Idioms
Learners identify and use positive and negative imperatives and idioms in written and spoken dialogues, and use irregular verbs in written and spoken sentences. They complete various worksheets, re-write dialogues, and complete an...
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Idioms
Students explore the use of common idioms and deduce the correct meanings of idioms.
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Shopping
In this shopping worksheet, students, with a partner, brainstorm all the words they can think of associated with shopping, discuss thirteen words and phrases associated with shopping and fill in the gaps of four sentences with shopping...
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Reading in English is a Waste of Time!
In this reading worksheet, students, with a partner, decide which of eight words are not connected to reading and fill in ten blanks in ten sentences with idioms.
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Total English Intermediate: Very Useful Idioms
In this intermediate idioms activity, students practice idioms as they complete a graphic organizer by interviewing classmates and write a paragraph based on the notes from the graphic organizer.
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You Don't Say!!
Fourth graders write and respond to sayings throughout the school year. They define the idioms, illustrate them and compare their meanings with other groups in the class.
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Negative Imperatives and Idioms
Students identify negative imperatives in sentences. They practice using positive and negative imperatives in their written and spoken dialogue. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Idiom Ideographs
High schoolers explore idioms. They divide into groups of three. Each group is given an idiom and three sentence clues. They discuss the meaing of their assigned idiom. Students create a new sentence using their idiom and dramatize the...
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Idioms
Learners study the meanings of idioms containing the phrase "up" or "down." In this language lesson plan, students are given an online scenario where the idiom phrases are used. Learners answer multiple choice questions about their meaning.
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Idioms Beginning with C
In this online interactive idioms worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers with the click of the mouse.
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Idioms Quiz: Food 2
For this online idiom quiz worksheet, students analyze the idiom examples within the sentence and select the correct answer for the meaning of the idioms to complete the 10 exercises.
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English Exercises: Idioms Exercise
For this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 8 fill in the blank questions about idioms. Students may submit their answers to be scored
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Idioms Lesson Plan
Sixth graders discover idioms. In this idioms lesson, 6th graders evaluate idioms and discover their meaning. Students read Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein and create unique idioms. Assessment rubric is provided.
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7th Grade ELA Common Core Checklists
Track your class's progress on all of the ELA Common Core standards with these handy charts. Along the left side, each seventh grade identifier is listed along with the full text of the standard. As you teach, reteach, assess, and...
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History Personified
Students explore historical events by writing a research paper using personification.
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In The Words of Abraham Lincoln...
Young scholars explore the words of Abraham Lincoln. In this Abraham Lincoln activity, students analyze segments of "The Gettysburg Address," his annual address to Congress in 1862, and his letter to Mrs. Bixby. Young scholars conduct...
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: Who Said This?
Can your class figure out who said what just by looking at a quotation? This activity for Of Mice and Men includes 11 quotations from the novel. Use this quote sheet as a light activity to get your readers to look back into the text or...
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Lesson 2-Explore/Explain Sound Communication
Students watch and listen to human speech and explore visual and audio cues that aid their understanding. During a short walk, students listen to the sounds around them and classify them as environmental, voiced, or musical.
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Philanthropy Framework
Students become community philanthropists. In this social studies lesson, students learn the definition of philanthropy and apply it to Martin Luther King, Jr. The next day, students complete 3 T-charts for 3 historical figures. Finally,...
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Visual Vocabulary
Students use context clues to determine an understanding for vocabulary words in texts. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students recognize linguistic features in their readings to help them to figure out words.
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T'was the Night Before Christmas (Poem)
Students read the poem T'was the Night Before Christmas, and then partner with another student to complete a poem of their own based on the original. The new poem has missing words and students fill in the missing parts of speech like a...