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Using Personal Pronouns Correctly

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Complete personal pronoun practice activities. Pupils use correct personal pronoun form in sentences the teacher writes on the board. They review the function of a pronoun and the various cases and practice placing personal pronouns by...
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Conversation Lesson: The Necessity of Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Start a conversation to convey proper English grammar. In groups pupils voice their opinion, have well supported disagreements, and explain why they feel as they do. This lesson builds academic discussion skills and fosters a command of...
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Mexico Field Trip

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Explore how the library or Internet resources function as textual information. Young writers research a chosen topic then read and comprehend the collected information. They structure the information with texts and graphics for a...
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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

For Teachers 8th
Participate in authentic career research, and make effective and realistic career/academic choices entering high school. Develop communication skills, demonstrate English language arts proficiency, and share a group presentation with...
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Character Webbing- Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use technology to be engaged in an Language Arts assignment. The play of Romeo and Juliet is viewed on the computer and all skills related to its viewing are accomplished at the computer station.
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Alphabet Flashcards, Tracing, Maze, and Recognition Pages

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts learning exercise, students use the flashcards and worksheets to become familiar with the alphabet. They work with flashcards, recognition pages, alphabet tracing sheets, vowels and consonants mazes, and alphabet...
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Present Continuous: Positive Form

For Students 2nd
In these present continuous form worksheets, 2nd graders complete 3 different activities that help them learn to use and write with the present continuous positive form.
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Present Continuous

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these present continuous worksheets, students write questions using the scrambled words to create sentences in the present continuous form. Students then look at the pictures and complete the questions using the words in the same form.
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Present Continuous: Short Answers

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these present continuous form worksheets, students complete 2 activities that help them write answers to questions using the present continuous form.
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Present Continuous Grammar Test

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar test worksheet, students look at the pictures and write questions from them using the present continuous form.
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Present Continuous Form: Grammar Test

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar test worksheet, learners use the pictures to help them write answers to the questions using present continuous form.
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The Present Simple or Continuous Exercises

For Students 4th - 5th
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and use the verb in present simple or present continuous form to complete the 11 sentences.
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Present Continuous Exercises

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this online interactive listening worksheet, students listen attentively to a tape and match the 8 pictures of animals to the 8 words on the tape.
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Integrating Past Continuous

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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Functional Classroom Design

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students work in groups to design an effective and functional classroom. In this classroom design lesson, students discuss community and make a mental map and sketch of their classroom. Students complete a handout about the design...
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Parts of Speech Staircase

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students are introduced to the various parts of speech. Using construction paper, they make their own parts of speech staircase and use markers to write the different parts of speech on different flaps. To end the lesson, they write the...
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Beginning Sentence Completion 9

For Students 3rd - 4th
English language learners choose the correct multiple choice option to complete 12 sentences. There is no common theme here, so this might function best as a time-filler. 
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Hey Classmates! Let's Get to Know One Another!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Two word puzzles encourage collaboration among learners. One sheet has numbers and initials that show a relationship and the other has pictorial images that represent a phrase. Partners cooperate in order to develop functional working...
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Against the Odds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What factors help people achieve goals? What factors prevent people from achieving goals? What are the elements that need to be in place to make a team function well? Using Damien Lewis’ Desert Claw and John Francome’s Winner Takes All,...
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From Photo to Printed Word: Getting Second-Graders to Write

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use photographs to entice your children to write! In this digital storytelling lesson plan, students study the functions of digital cameras. They review their sentence-writing skills, then take digital photos and write sentences that...
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Identify Intended Media Messages

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How does media convey different messages? Use this activity to explore media by identifying and analyzing selected images. Middle schoolers analyze a poster and discuss the intended meaning of the imagery and how it makes them feel. They...
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Do the Word Stretch

For Teachers 1st
Young learners practice putting sounds together to form words. Even though the sound is not functioning on this presentation, the basic premise of leading students through the decoding process is great. There are only four examples,...
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Visible Speech: A Short Course in the Fundamentals of Writing

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Use this presentation to introduce a class or lecture about writing organization. The slide show is the first part in a five-part series, titled "What is an Essay?" The slideshow is short and could use more detail, but functions as a...
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The Structure of an Essay

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Using the analogy of the human body, writing an essay is described in these slides. An overall look at writing, the analogy is meant to have writers consider how their paper functions as a whole. Details and instructions for writing are...