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“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear learning...
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Multisensory Grammar Activities
Activate various learning styles while covering modifiers and double negatives. These activity ideas provides several sentences for examining each topic. After completing the activities, learners will know how to clarify meaning with...
Achievement Strategies
ACT College Readiness Standards
Here is a template offering a comprehensive outline of ACT skill categories, what standards are expected to be mastered, and blank spaces for you to include how you plan to address those standards within your curriculum.
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ABC Grammar Book
Elementary learners create an ABC grammar book. The project begins with class members taking digital pictures of items that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Depending on level, they then add a word or a complete sentence to...
California Academy of Science
Poetic Reflections
Poetry is a wonderful way to explore language, express topical understanding, and incite creative thinking. After a trip to the local natural history museum (or zoo), learners write an acrostic or a cinquain poem describing one of their...
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Help! I Need Some Editing
Students write their own story using as much descriptive language as they can. They peer edit each other's stories and create illustrations to accompany their writings. They place their story in a booklet and give it to a needy recepient.
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Word Round Up: Developing Superior Sentences
In this sentence development worksheet, student complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions related to writing better sentences. Students may click on a link for answers.
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Language Arts Assessment
In this online interactive language arts assessment worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions regarding parts of speech.
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Identifying and Using Parts of Speech in Writing: Technology, Word Processing
Students identify and suggest suitable parts of speech to fill in the blanks in a prepared text (the text can easily be tailored to language ability and desired subject). They use word processing to edit the text.
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WOW - Who Or What? (A Six Trait Lesson)
Students locate and select riddles in library books to share, write riddles using template, select appropriate parts of speech to complete riddle template using AlphaSmart, correctly capitalize and punctuate riddle, and illustrate their...
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Whose Voice Do I Hear?
Fifth graders examine the power of voice in writing by completing a story using words following a particular voice. They take simple nursery rhymes, then attempt to put their own voice to a revised version. An interesting lesson on writing!
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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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Create Your Own Sporting Event
Students use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event activity, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Students categorize...
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Creating a Digital Newspaper
Young scholars create a digital newspaper. For this digital newspaper lesson, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Young scholars complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion...
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation
Students improved pronunciation by focusing on the stress-time nature of spoken English.
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Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech
Middle schoolers create pieces of writing about a creature they have created. They examine the parts of speech and how they are used in their writing to see how they can write more specifically.
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation
Students practice their pronunciation of words. They also practice stressing certain words and when to stress words in speech.
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation
Students practice their pronunciation of their words and stressing certain words when speaking. They use sentences given to them by their teacher to practice.
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I See and I Think (It's A Wonderful World)
Learners analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities...
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English Skills Assignment
In this English skills worksheet, learners complete various English skill activities. There are 12 activities in total, with topics including proof-reading, word puzzles, alliteration, consonants, vowels, word meanings, anagrams, and...
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English Skills Assignment
In this English skills activity, students complete 12 different activities covering numerous topics, including alliteration, proof-reading, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech and more. Students can earn 59 total points on...
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English Skills 6.206
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include alliterations, rood words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, word meanings and proof-reading. Students...
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Open Your Eyes Wide-Shut
Students improve their language skills through 11 activities. In this language skills lesson, students listen to picture books, answer questions about elements of a story, enhance their vocabulary and grammar skills, use 5 W questions,...
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Digital Parts of Speech
High schoolers investigate different parts of speech by creating digital skits. For this digital education lesson, students collaborate in groups to research the Internet for clips and music that represent the different parts of speech....