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"Nice To Meet You"
Students interview two classmates and introduce them to the class. They practice using the present perfect tense and verbs they have discovered. They complete sentences with the correct word.
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February Friendship Bugs
First graders select five behaviors from a class web that promote kindness and strengthen friendships. In this random acts of kindness instructional activity, 1st graders create friendship bugs with corresponding Kindness...
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Diamante Poem
A diamante poem, a form poem, compares two nouns using adjectives and participles. The instructional activity provided by Busy Teacher Café includes the definitions of these parts of speech, a model for the form, and a sample poem....
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a activity that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
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Valentine Cinquain
Students review parts of speech by using Inspiration. They brainstorm vocabulary that fit a Valentines theme. Students watch as the teacher demonstrates the parts of a cinquain poem. Students write their own poem and create a KidPix...
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Desert Cinquains
Young scholars use the cinquain structure and correct parts of speech to write a poem with a desert theme.
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Editing
Are your writers ready to edit their papers? Present them with these editing tips including reading papers out loud, varying sentence openings and lengths, and using action verbs. While the tips are worthwhile, consider supplementing the...
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The Writing Center: Prepositions
While the focus is applicable to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and higher education, the slides are text heavy (as they were originally designed for higher education). Learners will review rules for using a preposition and how to use...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature’s Fury: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcano eruptions, and more. To enrich their study of nature's big events, kids map tectonic plates and major earthquake locations, identify emergency response agencies, and storyboard a film about volcanos.
K5 Learning
The Great Sphinx Statue
Second graders read an informational text passage on the Great Sphinx, and answer questions based on what they read.
Curated OER
Improving Sentences
Help your class improve their writing with this handy presentation. Learners discuss how to use adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enhance their work. This is a terrific way to connect grammar to its everyday use.
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Cinquain Poems
Students write five-line, diamond shaped poems that are very easy to write then submit one through an automatic PIZZAZZ form.
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Acids, Copper, and Zinc
Learners observe chemical reactions using post-1982 pennies. They observe the reaction of an acid with zinc but not copper under the same conditions over a two week period.
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Smiling Snake
Pupils explore the /s/ sound and identify the /s/ sound while reading. They read a tongue twister which emphasizes the /s/ sound and sss like a snake when they come to a /s/ sound. They listen to "The Stray Dog" and make finger snakes...
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Pupils identify required documents related to transportation (driver's license, insurance card, registration, passport). They discuss and categorize the following documents needed for local and or international travel; driver's license,...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Hyphens
Do you know when to use hyphens? Here's a resource that lists when to use hyphens in adjectives, in compound numbers, after prefixes, and in between line breaks with examples of each.
Other
Oxford Dictionaries: Verb Tenses: Adding Ed and Ing
Spelling rules and word lists for adding -ed and -ing endings to verbs.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ing Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ing" ending words. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are
Verbals are verbs disguised as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Verbals come in three forms: gerunds, infinitives, and participles. Gerunds are verbs that end in "-ing" and function as nouns. Participles end in "-ing," "-ed," "-d," "-t,"...
Other
Eclectic English: The Present Continuous Tense the Ing Form of Verbs
Learn how to correctly add the -ing ending to various types of words, and then practice by adding -ing to twenty-two verbs.
Quia
Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.