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Daily Language

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students correct a sentence, circle the adjectives in another sentence, and underline the main verb and circle the helping verb in another. Students also write an essay about how slavery is wrong.
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Hands Poem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a "Hands" poem for the author/character in a reading selection.They make inferences for reading selection and back up inference by citing specific lines in text. They relate author's or main character's experiences to...
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Learning Grammar Through Wordplay

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use wordplay to investigate the grammatical components of a sentence. They read a New York Times article by analyzing the writer's use of nouns and verbs in the article and then constructing original sentences using those words...
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this "The Tell-Tale Heart" worksheet, students write an essay about how Edgar Allan Poe keeps the reader in suspense. The worksheet helps students construct the essay through eleven different scaffolding steps.
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Nancy Fetzer's Literacy Connections

Expository Paragraph

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Upper elementary and middle school writers learn how to craft an expository paragraph by following the six steps detailed in a 48-page instructional guide. Learners learn how to write six different types of informational paragraphs: to...
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PBS

Think Like a Historian: A Viewing Guide

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Calling all junior detectives! Scholars use the tools of investigation to determine the causes and impacts of the American Civil War. Using viewing guides, videos, group research, and written resources, they discover what it takes to...
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Fragments

For Students 10th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students read about fragment sentences. Students are instructed to watch out for no verb fragments and misplaced periods.
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The Passive Voice

For Students 7th - 8th
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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Listening Comprehension - Newspaper Articles

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students demonstrate understanding of main points of the Deseret News article, and identify the verb(s) of each phrase to aid in listening comprehension.
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Past Simple Questions and Short Answer Forms

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students review and consolidate past simple question forms and short answers to extend their use to a variety of different regular and irregular verbs.
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Creating a Cinquain

For Students 4th - 5th
For this Language Arts worksheet, students read about how to create a cinquain poem. Students read an example and complete a graphic organizer to help guide them in writing their own.
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Listening Comprehension - Newspaper Articles

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students demonstrate listening comprehension skills. They listen to an audio reading of two newspaper articles, identify verbs, answer discussion questions, and complete a cloze activity.
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Proofreading: Lesson 9

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in writing a descriptive paragraph with a main idea and supporting details. They generate correct mechanics and spelling while writing this paragraph. When finished, they complete a rubric (that is included...
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Spanish Politics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify Spanish and other leaders, political parties, and ideas on a political continuum as a class. They verbally answer questions demonstrating comprehension of the text. Students summarize in writing in Spanish the main...
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San José State University

Avoiding Nominalization

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...
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Who Questions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing the interrogative sentences worksheet, students read statements and write the appropriate questions. Students write 6 sentences.
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers

For Students 10th - 12th
This handout gives an overview of the passive and active voices as well as pointing out that the grammar checkers in word processing programs mark sentences written in the passive voice as incorrect. While this is not an interactive...
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PPT
Prairie View A&M University

Passive Voice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Often deemed the weak voice, the passive voice is often a stylistic choice in many narratives. This presentation, created by Prairie View A&M University, details the pros and cons of using the passive voice. 
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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
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What Contains Carbon?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore elements by analyzing everyday objects and materials in class. In this carbon lesson, students define several vocabulary terms such as carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon, and carbonate. Students view a group of items,...
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Scripting The Great Train Robbery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Take writing prompts to another level in this activity, which allows pupils to create scenes of dialogue based on the 1903 silent film, The Great Train Robbery. Useful for a language arts/history cross-curricular activity, the lesson...
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love

For Students 6th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Interactive
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Levels of Ability

For Students 4th - 6th
In this levels of ability worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct forms of can, could, be able to, may, or might. Students complete 13 multiple choice questions.
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Who Question Practice

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
Using a short answer format, students answer 18 questions in order to practice writing sentences that begin with 'who.' This worksheet provides a comprehensive review of this topic.

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