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Listen a Minute: Exercise
Even if they hate exercise, this lesson could be a great way to practice writing and answering questions for your ELD pupils. First, a tape-script about exercise (which could be read aloud by the teacher) provides them with information...
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Transition Words
Do your emergent writers need extra practice using transitions? After reading a brief definition, learners select a transition from the provided word bank that best completes the sentences in each set. No answer key is provided.
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Commas Exercise
In this commas worksheet, students identify where to correctly add a comma in fifteen given sentences. He was a bashful dopey sleeping dwarf, is one example.
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Verb Review: Present/Past
The conversational style of the sentences (Some exercises are actual dialogues, which could make good oral language practice.) in this practice sheet makes it perfect for ELD class or native speakers. The five exercises here encompass...
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Lyddie
Students investigate the character trait of perseverance and how it is used to help a girl gain independence in a fictional story. The story also has them think about the value of relationships and then write reflectively about...
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Problem Page Letter
Learners discuss a dramatic situation involving realistic characters and create response "letters" to the situation in this Drama instructional activity for the high school classroom. The instructional activity emphasizes the study of...
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Math-Geometry: Area and Perimeter
Upper graders measure the area and perimeter of several items. In this area and perimeter lesson, learners engage in measuring area and perimeter in several scenarios. Full-group instruction requires students to listen to instruction and...
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Quiz 8A: Irregular Verbs-Group 2
Here is a straightforward worksheet that provides practice with irregular verbs. First, learners write the past tense form of 10 irregular verbs next to the given present tense form. Then they use the verbs from that list to complete six...
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Hamlet 1.2: Hamlet's First Soilloquy
O, that these too, too obscure words would resolve themselves into modern English! High school scholars are asked to do a close reading of Hamlet’s first soliloquy (I, ii) and recast these famous lines into contemporary speech, identify...
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Making Connections
Fourth graders investigate visual imagery to aid reading comprehension. In this reading strategies lesson, 4th graders discover how visual imagery helps in comprehending a story. Students use a reader's notebook to record connections.
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Themes (For the Most Part) Quiz
Incorporate this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet into your curriculum. Learners respond to five multiple choice questions based on the themes found in All Quiet on the Western Front. They may submit their answers to be...
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Articles and Article Check-Up
Help your learners practice proper article usage with this informational handout and brief exercise. After reading information about articles and their uses, including details about when to omit articles, scholars complete fourteen...
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Leaf, Tree and Prairie Study
Young scholars are introduced to the topic of Botany and the process of photosynthesis. Using various habitats, they research the amount of destruction it is facing and how to solve the problem. They make a leaf booklet with leaves they...
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Give Into Chance
High schoolers experience choreography that originated from the Postmodern movement. They utilize a chance method by rolling a dice to change the order of a dance sequence. Then they compare this method to traditional methods.
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Use this types of sentences worksheet in your grammar lesson. Young writers read eight sentences and determine if each is simple, complex or compound. They write the answer on the line. There are no examples of these types of sentences.
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Place Value Review
Review various aspects related to place value with this easy-to-follow presentation. Learners can review the base ten system, see representations, and read descriptions of ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands, and numbers in expanded...
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Categorize Important Vocabulary Words and Describe their Features
Second graders read a short passage along with the teacher to pull out various transportation related words. They analyze each of the chosen words by creating a chart which helps them think about the similarities and differences of each...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5
"Timid, scared, terrified." High school scholars examine words, their denotations and connotations, in a series of exercises that use lines from Shakespeare to explore figurative language and word relationships. Participants then...
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Animal Acrostic
In this animal acrostic worksheet, learners read a short poem. Afterward, they answer questions about the poem and then write their own acrostic poetry. Students share their poetry with a friend, and guess what type of animal is described.
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Biopoem
Reinforce the actions, emotions, and characteristics that determine what a character is like by having your middle schoolers create a biopoem using the model presented here. You could engage them first by having them write a poem about...
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We Are All Authors
Students analyze the components of a book to use it as a model for the creation of their own book. The title, author, illustrator, front cover, back cover, dedication page, and author are examined in this lesson.
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Blending is Fun
Use a poster picture of a slide to illustrate the blending of phonemes in words. First show your youngsters basic examples like cat and cap. Then have learners work in pairs to create some blends of their own! Provide words for them to...
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Newbery Medal Winners Quiz: 1990s
Fifteen questions cover nine Newbery-winning novels from the 1990s in this interactive quiz. Voracious individual readers can test their memory and comprehension, or groups can pool knowledge and work together to complete the quiz....
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1984 - Part Two
Focus on the second half of George Orwell's 1984 with this reading comprehension quiz. All multiple-choice, the questions center on major events in the novel.