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Student Mad Libs
Students investigate the different parts of speech by participating in a fill in the blank activity. In this Mad Libs lesson, students define the different parts of speech and discuss how they are used appropriately in sentences....
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Toma Rivera Mad Lib
In this mad lib activity, students fill in blanks with designated parts of speech to complete a "story." Words to use are categorized and appear on page 2.
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Mind Libs
Young scholars are told that they are going to do a fun activity similiar to "Mad Libs" in which they "fill in the blanks" to create funny stories. They are given a copy of Mind Libs Reproducible #1. Students follow the word...
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Cloze Instruction
Bring Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Mad Libs, and cloze activities to your college class with this lesson. They complete a cloze instruction activity in which the students choose words that would fill in the blanks and create their own...
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Mad About Parts of Speech
Eighth graders review and use the different parts of speech using Mad Libs or Web Libs. They also utilize creative writing skills by providing the most interesting word(s) for the story line. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan.
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Apples
In this create a story worksheet, students fill in the blanks with a verb, noun, adjective, person, or season to complete the story. The story is about apples and helps the students with their writing skills.
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T'was the Night Before Christmas (Poem)
Students read the poem T'was the Night Before Christmas, and then partner with another student to complete a poem of their own based on the original. The new poem has missing words and students fill in the missing parts of speech like a...
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Nate the Great: Write Your Own Mystery
In this Nate the Great writing activity activity, students fill in the 26 blanks in "The Case of the Missing Book" with noun, adjective, and adverbs to create their own mystery.
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Pizza Pizza
In this parts of speech worksheet, students read a story about the history of pizza that has missing words. Following the directions to put in adjectives, nouns or other words, students complete the story so that it makes sense.
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Inspire the Imagination with a Poet Study of Shel Silverstein
Captivating prose opens wondrous doors to critical thinking and language development.
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Scholastic: Noun Poem Reproducible [Pdf]
A three page pdf includes notes for the teacher and reproducible pages for students. A poem to help students identify nouns and a fun "Mad Lib" type exercise are included.