Reed Novel Studies
War Horse: Novel Study
Some war heroes have four legs. War Horse tells of a courageous foal taken from his farm and sent into war. Joey, the foal, loves and touches the lives of many soldiers. However, his heart is still with his boy back on the farm. Scholars...
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Reading a Comparison-Contrast Essay
Turn your passive readers into active readers with an engaging lesson on reading informational text. Focused on compare and contrast structured essays, the activity prompts elementary learners to jot down questions and think-aloud...
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Goals, Ideas, and Activities
In this goals and self awareness worksheet, learners complete a set of sentences about their own goals, ideas for the future, activities they enjoy or don't enjoy and people in their lives who can help them reach their goals.
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Sentence Revision
Students review the procedures for revising sentences. After viewing a PowerPoint presentation, they read a handout of common wordy phrases and discover how to jazz up their writing. They complete a worksheet in which they revise the...
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Identifying Complete and Incomplete Sentences
Young scholars identify complete and incomplete sentences. In this grammar lesson, students are shown examples of incomplete sentences on the board and rewrite them correctly. Young scholars complete a worksheet as a follow-up activity.
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The Patchworker-Sentences Making Sense
Students are introduced to the activity by writing some sentences with words in the wrong order. They are told that the patchworker needs help to get things in the right order. Students are asked to read the list of words on the...
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Conditional Sentences type 1
In this conditional sentences worksheet, students complete multiple choice problems where they complete sentences, fill in the blanks to a song, and watch the video to the song. Students complete 3 activities.
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Complete Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, learners rewrite twenty fragments into complete sentences so that each one is grammatically correct. Students share their sentences with each other.
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Vocabulary Practice: Complete the Sentences With Words From the Word Pool
For this vocabulary worksheet, learners analyze ten sentences that have missing words. Students complete the sentences with the correct words from the word list.
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Past Continuous Activity
In this past continuous worksheet, students write verbs to label pictures, choose the correct words for sentences describing after school and in school. Students complete 3 activities.
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Spelling sentences
First graders write sentences based on their spelling words that appear on their word walls. In this writing lesson plan, 1st graders create sentences that include their spelling words. They do this on the computer. Then they pick out...
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Complete Number Sentences
For this number sentences worksheet, students fill in missing numbers to make sums correct. A website reference for additional activities is given.
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Completing Number Sentences
In this number sentences worksheet, students fill in missing numbers to make given sums correct. An answer key is included; a website reference for additional activities is given.
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Super Sentence Starters
Fourth graders create more complex sentences by adding specified parts. They play a game where they be making sentences sound better by adding new words or phrases. They use worksheets imbedded in this lesson to give them lots of ideas.
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Basic Sentence Structure
In this sentence structure activity, students write sentences, write the subject and predicate, and punctuate correctly. Students complete 3 activities.
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Sentence Structure Game for Complete Beginners
Pupils play a card game with color coded words to create sentences that are correctly structured. They listen to a sentence dictated aloud and recreate the sentence using cards. They create sentences for partners to represent with cards.
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Snowman Sentences
Second graders will describe and illustrate how to build a snowman. In this sequencing lesson, 2nd graders will create a KidPix slideshow, with each page showing a picture and a sentence of how to build a snowman.
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Tenses: Active and Passive
In this active and passive voice instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in parenthesis in the active and passive voice. Students complete 21 sentences total.
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Passive or Active Exercises
In this active and passive voice worksheet, students choose which voice the sentences are in. Students complete 21 problems total.
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Take Apart Sentences
Fourth graders explore the two main parts of sentences, subject and predicate. They, in groups, mix up their sentence strips and then place them face down and have a contest to see which group can rebuild the sentences correctly in the...
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Verbs: Present Activities
In this present tense verbs worksheet, student observe pictures and sentence beginnings in order to add the correct verbs in the blank spaces. Students add verbs to six sentences.
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Conjunctions
Complete exercises for conjunctions in this conjunctions lesson. Middle schoolers work in pairs to combine sample sentences. They analyze the conjunctions and choose one to help them rewrite the sentences. Additionally, they may complete...
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What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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Old Information Before New Information
Help your writers streamline their sentence structure with this handout. This resource provides information about sentence organization including definitions and models of the active voice and the passive voice. In addition to reading...