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ELA High-Frequency Sight Words
Read high frequency words and rearrange scrambled sentences in order to make proper sentences with pupils. They will also practice oral fluency by reading a word assigned to them. These activities reinforce reading fluency and vocabulary...
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Sentence Combining/Sentence Variety
Challenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...
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Compound Sentence Structure
SMART boards a great way to create interest in any subject - even grammar! Using the provided SMART board lesson, have your 10th graders come up to the board and combine two independent clauses using a "glue" word (coordinating...
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Silly Sentences- Sorting Words
In this writing worksheet, 3rd graders cut out 5 sets of words. They rearrange the words in each set until they form a sentence. They cut out blank squares, write words in them, and have a friend sort the words out to form a sentence.
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Using a Computer to Write a Letter: Verbs (Sequencing)
Review sequencing by providing your English language learners with this mix of sentences. Cut the paper into 20 strips, and have each learner rearrange them into the correct order. Don't forget to keep one copy with the correct order!
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New (March 2016) SAT Writing and Language Test Practice
Prepare class members for the SAT Writing and Language exam with a practice test that prepares students for the types of questions and the kind of language used in the exam. Test takers must select the best way to fix poorly constructed...
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Making Words
Third graders spell words and define homophone. In this making words lesson, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words.
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Getting To Know You
Students use personal information to enter into a teacher generated database. The focus is upon name recognition and promoting socialization with classmates. Word recognition is emphasized with the simple development of basic computer...
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Understanding Sentences
Go over how to read complex sentences. Learners work on identifying key ideas, examining sentence structure, looking up new vocabulary, and paraphrasing. An overview of methods to help class members read difficult texts, half of the...
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Intermediate Forming Questions - "Do"
In this unscrambling the words in sentences learning exercise, students read words and rearrange them into complete interrogative sentences. Students write 8 sentences.
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Adjectives Exercises
In this English worksheet, students rearrange the order of words to make complete sentences. Students have a list of words that they work with.
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Cross Out Paragraph Puzzle One: To Keep it Secret
Slightly confusing upon first glance, this lesson is actually a neat idea! Present your learners with a series of sentences (at the top of the page), and have them follow the directions to cross out adverbs, verbs in the past tense, etc....
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Using a Computer to Write a Letter - Verbs (Sequenceing)
In this writing letters instructional activity, students use the mixed up sentences and rearrange them into chronological order to practice sequencing verbs.
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Paragraph Writing
Third graders receive Gummi hamburgers. They discuss parts and structure of a (real) hamburger. Students dissect the gummi hamburger and rearrange the pieces. Students discuss the problems that would be caused by this with a real...
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ESL Autobiographies
Learners develop collaborative skills while creating a vocabulary word list. They work together to take each others photos using a digital camera. Students access a website to copy and paste their photos into a word document. They create...
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Using a Computer to Write a Letter – Verbs (Sequencing)
In this sequencing instructional activity, students will cut out sentences about how to write a letter using a computer. Then students will rearrange the sentence strips in chronological order.
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Short Story Writing
Middle schoolers develop skills needed to write short stories. They pick out an object in the room and describe it without saying what it is. They describe their hand and the lines on their hand without using words "Line, finger,skin or...
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Writing with Style: Six Traits of Good Writers
Fourth graders listen as the teacher reads a picture book that emphasized word choice. They discuss words and how word choice impacts a piece of writing. Students view various passages on the overhead, and highlight adjectives and verbs...
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Transformations
Students identify the types of transformations in their lives. As a class, they determine the ones they have control over and which ones they do not. They practice solving problems in math and oral communication that they are faced with...
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Poetry Cyberbook
Emerging poets design a website and then post seven original poems as well as their written critique of these poems. Although the resource mentions Inspiration and FrontPage technologies, any software could be substituted.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Game: Does It Make Sense?
An interactive game where students rearrange words to create a complete sentence that makes sense. Each time the words are put into the correct order, students can help a sea turtle named Wellington pick up one piece a trash and put it...