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EngageNY

Four Interesting Transformations of Functions (Part 3)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Continue the study of transformations with an examination of horizontal stretches, shrinks, and reflections. Individuals use the same process used in parts one and two of this series to examine horizontal changes. The resource also...
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Desire2Learn

Alliteration Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
Learners love literary lyrics! Practice alliteration with an activity that encourages kids to find a line of alliteration for every letter of the alphabet. After they finish, they can create a line of their own alliteration and explain...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
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Ahisma Summer Institute

The Power of One - Math in a Different Angle

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
In this 2-day instructional activity focused on exponents, middle schoolers will cross the curriculum by engaging in science, history and language arts activities. Exponential growth will be explored using grains of rice on a chess...
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Curated OER

College or Bust?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Based on a New York Times article, "The College Drop-Out Boom," participants in a fishbowl discussion formulate and express opinions about the correlation between level of education, career options, and economic mobility. Ample...
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Curated OER

Grasshopper King- Choose An Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a story using Power Point. In this writing and creativity lesson, students use Power Point to create a reading adventure. Students use hyperlinks so the adventure can take various twists and turns depending on the reader....
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Interactive
Curated OER

Actions in Progress

For Students 3rd - 5th
English language learners will find this practice particularly helpful. They match the sentences to their visual depiction. In the second exercise, they fill in the missing words. They use the sentences in the first activity to discover...
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Odyssey of the Mind

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: GREAT TO COMMUNICATE

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Humans love to communicate and they do it in so many different ways. The class investigates how people have used new inventions and technological innovations to communicate. They are divided into groups of three or four and given the...
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Curated OER

Teaching a Language Function Based on Communicative Principles

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars, through the creation of several natural dialogs, experiment with social parameters of the language. They work with how languages vary depending on the relationship between the speakers and the types of tasks being...
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Curated OER

What You Were Doing Yesterday-- Use of Different Verbs And Past Continuous Form

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students use the past continuous form in completing 15 sentences. Students read the time given and tell what they were doing yesterday at the time. Example: At 3:23pm.....(I was at school).
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Curated OER

Functions On Saturday Night

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
In this language expressions worksheet, learners read 10 sentences that could be "overheard on a Saturday night." Students categorize these statements according to the function involved: apologizing, inviting, suggesting, agreeing,...
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Curated OER

Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Form Follows Function

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a chair with function in mind. In this design lesson, students design a chair out of newspaper that is strong enough to hold a "peanut ball". Students discuss how the form follows the function. This lesson includes...
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Curated OER

Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...
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Curated OER

Using Present Perfect Continuous

For Students 4th - 7th
In this present perfect continuous verbs instructional activity, learners fill in the blanks in 20 sentences with 1 of the verbs ending in -ing listed in the word bank. Students also write their own sentences using have or has and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Kinds of Sentences by Function Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this kinds of sentences worksheet, students study examples of declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. Students read ten sentences and tell what type they are and put in the ending punctuation.
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Curated OER

The Future Continuous and Future Perfect Tenses

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
Practice completing sentences with its correct future verb tense via fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice options, with a 20 question learning exercise. 
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Curated OER

Characteristics and Functions of Money

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the function and characteristics of money. In this financial education lesson plan, 4th graders read the book The Go-Around Dollar by Johnston Adams. This book sparks a conversation on how money is used and the...
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Curated OER

The Language of Science

For Students 7th - 9th
In this language of science worksheet, students use the list provided to guess the meaning of each of the list. Students apply root words, prefixes, and suffixes to gain meaning of other science words.
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K12 Reader

Noun Clauses: Acting as a Noun

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Noun clauses and how they function in sentences is the focus of this exercise, the final resource in a series of 36 grammar worksheets.
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University of North Carolina

Modals

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Modal verbs such as could and would express possibility, as the installment of a compilation of informational handouts describes. A series of tables help explain the strength,...
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Possible or Not?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What does the graph mean? Pupils view 10 graphs and determine whether they are possible based on their contexts. The contexts are distance versus time and profit versus time.
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Curated OER

Definitions by Context

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Use this two-page resource either with your English language learners or your upper elementary native speakers. There are eight questions that test your learners' ability to use the context of a sentence to define an unknown word....
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Curated OER

When is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Act and act, address and address...there are so many words in our dictionary that can function as nouns or verbs. Start this lesson plan by having your class list as many as they possibly can. When an adequate list presents itself, have...
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Curated OER

Word Pair Analogies 3

For Students 8th - 10th
Designed for English language learners, but a good practice activity for all kids, this resource focuses on SAT words like saccharine, pragmatic, and precept. Effective scaffolding is provided here, as the last two questions require the...