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Breath/Breathe
In this breath or breathe learning exercise, students choose the correct word to complete each sentence. Students choose breath or breathe for 4 sentences.
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Pencil Talk And Other School Poems
Learners engage in a lesson to strengthen reading comprehension, the lesson focuses on the skill of making connections of story details and life experiences. The most important aspect of the lesson is for them to develop confidence while...
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A Poem for Grandparents Day
In this Grandparents Day activity activity, students learn how to write a cinquain poem and then write a poem pertaining to Grandparents Day.
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Learning About Prepositional Phrases
What is a prepositional phrase? Read through the first page of your packet to give your budding grammarians a better sense of what a prepositional phrase is. Then, have them complete the two activities provided. The first asks them to...
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Research and Study Skills: Dictionary/Glossary
What is the difference between a dictionary and a glossary? After looking at series of dictionary and glossary entries (included on the worksheet itself), learners are asked to explain the differences between these two reference...
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Researching Skills: Taking Notes
The how and why of note taking is the focus of a four-page worksheet. Tips include how to take notes in class, how to prepare note cards for a speech, how to fill out note cards on readings, and where to keep notes. Whether distributed...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel
Students, while defining an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, identify common signs and symbols that they may encounter when traveling or using some form of transportation (enter, exit, push, pull, men,
women, caution, no...
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The Participial Phrase
Need a review practice exercise for participial phrases? The assumption here is that young grammarians are already familiar with the grammar principles and terms and are ready to show their understanding of participial phrases, and for...
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Road Runner Reading
Students identify that fluency helps them to read faster, smoother, and with more expression. They read a book where a pet dog named Red is hungry and wants her owner to give her food. Students practice quick reading by reading until...
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Sports and Hobbies Pelmanism Game
Young scholars find similarities between games to collect cards. In this memory game, students collect cards with similarities and share them including the verbs "to go" or "to play" in their sentences if possible.
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30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month
A collection of writing prompts are so fun, you'll want to finish them yourself! Learners practice narrative prose and poetry skills with prompts that twist traditional structure, provide wild vocabulary, and encourage pupils to...
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Structural Analysis
First graders examine the word and sentence structure of reading, writing, speaking, and listening effectively. In this structural analysis lesson, 1st graders review the ending of compound words, root words and their usages.
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The Past Tense - Past Progressive
In this past progressive tense worksheet, students practice usage. In this fill in the blank and short answer worksheet, students answer fourteen questions.
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The Glossary
In this glossary activity, students read information about a glossary and practice usage referring to the glossary example on the activity. Students answer four questions using a glossary.
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Papier-Mache Retirement Buddies
Students make papier-mache people. In this relationship building lesson, students develop a relationship with a local retirement center or nursing home and get to know at least one of the residents. Students make a...
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Momentum and Conservation of Momentum
In this momentum learning exercise, students calculate momentum from the mass and velocity of an object. Students learn about the Law of Conservation of Momentum. This learning exercise has 8 matching, 6 fill in the blank, and 8 word...
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Saving and Investing
Fifth graders participate in activities to promote understanding of investing and saving. In this saving and investing lesson, 5th graders design a portfolio, play a card game and write a skit about the importance of investing.
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Gerunds Anyone?--Using a Verbal
In this gerunds worksheet, students fill in 5 blanks in 4 sentences with correct answers dealing with facts about gerunds. Students find the gerunds and underline each one in 6 sentences and then write an original sentence using the...
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Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb instructional activity, learners read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence...
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Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Animal Cinquain
In this poem-writing worksheet, 5th graders read the format for a cinquain poem and answer 5 questions about an animal of their choice. The questions guide students to write their own cinquain poem.
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Gearing up for Grammar
Pupils input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created. Pupils...
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Preparing for the Job Interview
Students determine the difference between gerunds and infinitives in oral and written form. They read a sample interview and discuss it as a class. They create their own do and don't list for interviews.
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Suffixes Beginning With Vowels
In this suffixes worksheet, students read what a suffix is and then add the correct suffix to the italicized word in each of the 10 sentences. There are 2 suffixes to choose from at the end of each sentence.