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Phonemic Awareness: Syllables
Count the syllables in your name, now count the syllables in your friend's name. Kids count syllables as they clap out and segment words. This activity is done as a whole class and has the potential of being highly engaging. The engaging...
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Heart to Heart
Candy conversation hearts make writing a sweet pastime. Fifth graders write narratives demonstrating a complete thought and correct punctuation. The trick here is that they must use the words on five candy conversation hearts as part of...
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Should vs. Would Rather Exercise
In this should vs would rather instructional activity, students create compound sentences using pairs of phrases. Students create ten compound sentences.
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
In this recognizing types of sentences activity, students read sentences and determine whether they are simple, compound, or complex. Students write eleven answers.
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Word Maps Teaching Ideas
In this literacy worksheet, students are given a graphic organizer to complete or are presented it as part of the lesson developed from using this sheet.
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Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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Sentence Skills
In this spelling skills instructional activity, learners respond to 10 questions in which they must correct misspelled words, identify antonyms, and rewrite sentences.
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"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs": DRA
Students participate in a directed reading of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," doing word work, comprehension activities, and presentations.
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Compound Sentences
In this literacy worksheet, middle schoolers create compound sentences for the fifteen questions. They practice using the correct connecting words.
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Orange Pepper: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "orange pepper", write the compound word independently, and color the picture of an orange pepper.
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Cable Car: Print and Color
For this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "cable car," write the compound word independently, and color the picture of the cable car.
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Tool Box: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "tool box," write the compound word independently, and color the picture of a tool box
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Sand Dollar: Print and Color
In this word recognition learning exercise, students trace the compound word "Sand Dollar," write the compound word independently, and color the picture of the sand dollar.
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English Language Practice Worksheet
In this English language practice instructional activity, students correct mistakes in sentences. In this fill in the blank instructional activity, students write six answers.
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Apostrophes Used in Contractions and Possessions
In this writing worksheet, pupils read about the proper use of apostrophes in possessives and contractions. They decide if 10 statements are written correctly and correct any errors that they find.
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Daily Oral Language Activities: Idioms
Third graders examine the use of idioms. In this vocabulary and reading lesson, 3rd graders explore what idioms are and make their own idiom cards to help them understand the use idioms in language.
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Notorious Confusables
In this similar words worksheet, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about words that are easily confused. Students choose the best word to complete each sentence from 2 similar words. Example:...
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Full Moon: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "full moon," write the word independently, and color the picture the man in the moon.
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Compound Sentences
Third graders write sentences that have the same topic using a comma and and, as well as practice writing new compound sentences by combining five pairs of sentences on paper. They then work in pairs and take turns writing simple...
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Compound Sentences
In this compound sentences worksheet, 3rd graders combine two sentence using the word "and". In this short answer worksheet, students write four sentences.
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The Complex Sentence
Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this activity on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex sentence...
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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Pronouns
Subject, object personal. Possessive, reflexive, indefinite. Everything you want to know about pronouns and their antecedents is contained in a colorful 32-slide presentation.
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Varying Sentence Structure
Show your writers how to use simple, compound, and complex sentences to add variety to writing. In addition, examples show how to employ semicolons and coordinating conjunctions to combine sentences. Colorful illustrations and graphics...