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Writing a Letter of Inquiry!
Middle schoolers examine and discuss brevity of business letters, create focused and catchy letters, and publish a typed letter that is suitable for mailing.
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Can You Feel the Book?
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. As a class they identify different expressions and emotions, then create expression cards. Students then discuss appropriate punctuation for the ends...
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Autobiographical Writing
In this unique lesson on autobiographical writing, students compare and contrast three types of writing: narrative, poetry and newspaper. Students prepare to produce a short autobiographical writing based on the framework of one of the...
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Into To Adverbs
Students explore the function of adverbs. While taking notes during the class lecture, students explore the parts of speech and label the adverbs. They identify the types of questions that adverbs answer and explore the difference...
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Noun Clauses, Adjective Clauses, Or Adverb Clauses
In this clauses learning exercise, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with an appropriate clause. They tell which type of clause was used by writing either noun clause, adjective clause, or adverb clause on the blank lines in...
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Questions and Statements
In this questions and statements worksheet, students read 12 examples and identify each as a question or a statement. Students also change 5 statements into questions and 5 questions into statements.
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Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases
Learners examine the use of adjectives and descriptive phrases to improve their written pieces. In this adjectives and descriptive phrases lesson, students look at demonstrative adjectives, common adjectives, and proper adjectives. They...
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Recognition of the Letters
Students practice writing words and brief sentences. In this phonics lesson, students write letters phonetically spelling the words legibly.
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Ready? Set. Punctuate!
First graders read Yo! Yes? with the teacher, and and discuss the period, questions mark and exclamation point. In this languge arts lesson, 1st graders practice motions to go with each mark, listen to the story again, and perform...
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Identify The Verb
In this on-line grammar worksheet, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they identify the type of verb in the sentences given. Students can check their answers at the end of the worksheet.
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Writing: Lesson 3
Eighth graders are read the material in the boldface print inside the boxes. They study several key elements of composition and examine sentence structure using the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They then critique another...
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What is The Main Idea
Students will investigate why comprehension is a major goal of reading. To comprehend the meaning of text, students must know certain strategies in order to be successful. Form a topic sentence that captures the meaning of a paragraph...
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Creative Story Writing
Students recognize predictable patterns in literature. They use the selected pattern to create their own writing using the same type of literary pattern. The new writing is proofread by other students and the editing is done until the...
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Students read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
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Adverb Clauses Exercises
In this adverb clause worksheet, students use logical verb clauses to complete the first 5 sentences. They complete 5 sentences with a noun clause using when, where, whether, if, or why. They complete the last 5 sentences with an adverb...
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Review of Yes/No Questions
This writing activity instructs learners to read a short paragraph about a scientific discovery, then write 5 questions to 5 answers. This activity would be quite useful when teaching students about sentence structure, and different...
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It and There
In this it and there worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with either the word it or there. Students fill in 12 sentences.
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I Wish and If Only Exercise
In this word choice worksheet, students review the three types of 'I wish/if only' sentences. Students then complete the example sentences with the correct phrase. Students complete 16 online exercises.
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Brainstorming Research Questions
Students examine and participate in an inquiry process. They brainstorm recall, comprehension, and synthesis questions for a research topic, and write the questions on sentence strips.
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Choosing All of the Correct Completions: Adjective Clauses
In this adjective clauses worksheet, students read ten sentences with a word or phrase missing. From four choices, students mark any answer that would correctly finish the sentence; there may be more than one.
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Quiz on Using Quotation Marks
In this quotation marks worksheet, students complete a 10 question on-line interactive quiz about the correct use of quotation marks. Students read the given sentence and type in all needed punctuation marks.
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Homonyms - Quiz 36
For this homonyms worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct homonym. Students fill in the blanks for 20 sentences.
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Fifth Grade Reading
In this 5th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice worksheet, students read 7 fiction and non-fiction selections and respond to 25 multiple choice questions about the readings.
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Paragraph Editing: Using agreement with an essay
In this editing worksheet, learners read 4 paragraphs and edit the sentences in them. Students edit 28 sentences total and can check their answers.