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You Be the Editor
Young editors work in teams to find all the errors in a text. They identify grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Use this activity to reinforce correct usage of prominent punctuation symbols, such as apostrophes and ellipses. You...
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Describe common actions and objects in specific and general language
Having a diverse and well-developed vocabulary make for both good readers and good writers. The class discusses basic grammar, such as nouns, verb, and adjectives. They then view a series of pictures and work as a class to create simple...
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education
Poems That Dance
Combine the elements of dance with the actions in a poem. Learners review basic grammar, write an action-packed cinquain poem, and then choreograph a dance based on their cinquains. After the dances are done, they'll discuss the elements...
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The News Article and The Editorial
Here is an outstanding series of lessons on journalism, writing newspaper articles, and writing editorials. This type of writing has long-been neglected in our schools, so this collection of writing activities is most-valuable. Along...
Wake County Public Schools
Language
Have your class doing everything from reading literature, analyzing literary devices, identifying independent and dependent clauses, discussing, and writing creatively with the rich resource found here. After a mini lesson on independent...
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Grammar Through Jeopardy
Students create questions for a grammar based version of a Jeopardy quiz game. The teacher assesses student questions and decides which questions should be used in the game. Individuals compete using proper grammar, phonics, and...
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Present Simple or Progressive
For this grammar quiz worksheet, students read the sentences and select the present simple or progressive form of the verb in parenthesis to complete the exercises. Students complete an online grammar quiz using the present simple or...
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English in Mind Unit 9: Grammar Practice
In this grammar practice worksheet, pupils complete thirty eight fill in the blank sentences focusing on the past simple passive form of verbs, and using a, an, or the.
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English in Mind Unit 6: Grammar Practice
In this grammar practice worksheet, students complete sentences in the positive and negative present simple passive form. Students also complete and correct given sentences. There are thirty questions.
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: I Wanna Be Like You
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.
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Nouns and Pronouns
Young readers explore nouns and pronouns. They define what a noun is and highlight the nouns in given sentences. Learners are then introduced to pronouns, and identify them in simple sentences.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Troubling Tenses – Past Simple vs. ‘going to’ 2
In this grammar skills worksheet, students will complete 15 sentences in the past simple tense or containing the phrase "going to" by using either "yesterday" or "tomorrow".
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Grammar and Usage
Seventh graders gain practice in writing sentences according to a specific purpose: declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory. This lesson includes a very thorough worksheet and assessment.
Teacher Writing Center
Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of irregular verbs.
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Sk8er Boi (Skater Boy)
Students listen to and analyze the lyrics for Avril Lavigne's song, Sk8er Boi. They discuss and interpret the vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and various grammar structures used in the lyrics.
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Monkey and Rabbit Together
Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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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...
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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Sentence Puzzle Race
Young scholars create sentences based on the word cards they are given. In this sentences lesson plan, students work in teams and get points for correct sentences.
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English in Mind Unit 3: Grammar Practice
For this grammar worksheet, young scholars construct sentences using the present continuous and present simple tenses. Students fill in the blank to complete thirty six sentences.
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English in Mind Unit 2: Grammar Practice
In this grammar practice worksheet, students complete sentences in the past continuous tense, make positive sentences negative, identify whether a sentence is written in past simple or past continuous, and form answers from a given...
Novelinks
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers: Literary Mandala
Explore the concept of yin and yang with this resource. On the first page, learners study a picture of George Bush. Then, have learners choose a character from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. After brainstorming adjectives and choosing...