Explore figurative language with your secondary class. Extending a language arts unit, the lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine how an author's word choice establishes a story's tone, possibly using metaphors, similes,...

What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities. 

Words, words, words. The function of words in persuasive writing is the focus of a group activity that asks members to analyze how words advertisers use are designed to influence targeted audiences.

Many schools have honor codes, but scholars do not always choose to follow them. As part of a series of free-response questions from the AP® English Language and Composition Exam, learners discuss the benefits or disadvantages of honor...

Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography...

In this present continuous worksheet, students write numbers next to sentences and determine if a verb can be used in the present continuous tense. Students complete 60 problems total.

In this interactive grammar worksheet, students type in the correct past continuous tense of the given words into each of the ten sentences.

Empower your non-verbal, autistic, or learning-impaired child with sign language. Lesson 2 in this functional and straight-forward series focuses on vocabulary related to familial relationships and ASL grammar. Video clips and images of...

Provide your hearing-impaired or special-needs students with a functional ASL vocabulary focused on feelings and family. Lesson 4 in this extensive series allows you to view both images and videos of each word or sentence as it is...

In this language worksheet, learners participate in a language game involving twenty-eight sentence starters. Students draw a sentence and complete the thought.

In this present continuous worksheet, students write sentences using the words given in present continuous tense. Students complete this for 10 sentences.

In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, students use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs. Students...

In this language arts worksheet, students learn to differentiate between "yesterday" and "tomorrow" by filling in the blanks in 15 sentences with the correct word.

In this past continuous verb worksheet, students create twenty yes or no past continuous questions. Students add "ing" to the verb to complete the sentence.

In this present continuous worksheet, students change the sentences to be in the present continuous tense. Students complete 12 sentences and write 4 on their own.

In this present continuous activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the verbs given in the correct form. Students complete 3 exercises.

In this present simple or present continuous worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct verb chosen that match the pictures. Students complete 15 sentences.

In this simple present or present continuous worksheet, students fill in fifteen blanks with the appropriate verb tense that makes each sentence grammatically correct.

For this simple present and present continuous worksheet, learners choose the correct words to complete the sentences. Students complete 20 sentences.

Tenth graders define the term slang, explaining its various social, historical, and racial contexts, so as to articulate when it can be appropriately used as a means of effective communication. They use their own personal slang lexicon,...

Are you teaching a high school language arts class and stumped for writing topics? Five pages of writing prompts for all kinds of writing should help you out. Many of these prompts refer to texts that are not included in this resource,...

Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises. 

Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...

Act and act, address and address...there are so many words in our dictionary that can function as nouns or verbs. Start this lesson by having your class list as many as they possibly can. When an adequate list presents itself, have your...