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Quantifier Exercises

For Students 4th - 6th
In this quantifiers online interactive instructional activity, students complete 12 sentences by supplying the appropriate adjective that completes each one grammatically correct. Students rewrite 10 sentences using negative quantifiers....
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What Do Halloween Costumes Say?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
  Students analyze Halloween costumes they find in magazines to categorize their findings.  In this holiday lesson, students discuss their findings about the costumes based on four different elements.  
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ESL Grammar - Comma Splice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students fix comma splices. In this ESL activity, students recognize comma splices and find ways to fix them.  They complete a worksheet finding comma splices and correct sentences. 
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Book Illustration

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view a video and discuss what illustrations in a book show and don't show.  In this observation lesson, students look at the details on a page in Alice in Wonderland and create an illustration.
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Semantic Mapping

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders increase vocabulary and comprehension. In this semantic lesson, 3rd graders read Getting to Know Nature’s Children: Wild Horses. Before reading, students begin a semantic map to define the word "horse," and they add to...
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Word Identification Strategies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use research based strategies to increase comprehension. For this word identification lesson, students skim a reading passage from Houghton Mifflin's Kermit the Hermit for words that are unfamiliar to them and use the...
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Cause And Effect

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the book Stellaluna and cite sentences that show cause and effect in the story. In this cause and effect lesson plan, 4th graders also write sentences that show cause and effect in their own lives.
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Scaffolding Academic Learning for Second Language Learners

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students walk through exposure to material on Great Inventions and Transportation using scaffolding techniques such as: language simplification, pre-reading, graphic organizers, note taking and more.
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Clean Air

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read sales promotion reports and create a sales promotion summary using information from the report. They develop a graphic organizer to outline their information for a presentation. There is an assessment checklist...
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Group Forming Activities for ESL/EFL Students

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students increase discipline, energy and cohesion within a classroom to take on important group tasks. Students examine ways of how to pick partners within the boundaries of a classroom. Students validate certain ways to choose thru...
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My Secret War: The WWII Diary of Madeline Beck: Lesson 6

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore women's rights by discussing the events of WWII. In this American work force lesson, 5th graders identify the events that led to World War II and how women helped fight the war through non-violent efforts. Students...
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Walk on the Wild Side

For Teachers 3rd
Have your class practice alliteration using this lesson. Learners listen to stories with alliterative elements and create their own sentences illustrating this technique. The lesson is incomplete, but could be enhanced to provide a...
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ESL: Do or Does?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL do/does worksheet, students choose either does, doesn't, do or don't from a drop down list to correctly fill in blanks in sentences. Page has a link to additional activities.
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Sit or Set

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this sit or set worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with either the word sit or set. Students fill in the blanks to 20 sentences total.
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General Grammar Exam

For Students 8th - 11th
In this online interactive English skills activity, students answer 50 multiple choice questions regarding appropriate grammar. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Direct and Indirect Pronouns

For Students Higher Ed
In this pronoun worksheet, students use both direct and indirect pronouns. Students complete 26 fill in the blank statements substituting a pronoun for the given words in each sentence.
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Using Prepositions with Participial Adjectives

For Students 4th - 5th
In this using prepositions with participial adjectives learning exercise, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 12 sentences with the correct preposition with immediate online feedback.
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Narratives in the Simple Past

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students recognize the simple past forms in a folktale. They supply some of these forms when asked
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Word Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize the parts of a sentence while working on their locomotor skills. Students, in teams, race to words on index cards. The team collecting enough cards to create a complete sentence wins. Additional variations on the...
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Present Progressive

For Students 5th - 8th
In this present progressive learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with the correct present progressive words. Students complete 7 paragraphs.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson focuses on helping students explain how to engage in this kind of social conversation. A worksheet imbedded in this plan provides practice.
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Using Reported Speech

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students fine tune their communication skills to include expressing the ideas of others, as well as their own opinions. They must practice a number of times before feeling comfortable using them in every day conversations.
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Sentence Fragments

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars engage in a lesson in order to identify sentence fragments and define why they are different than a complete sentence. Students examine sentences in order to differentiate between a noun and a subject. They also identify...
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First and Last: A Speaking Activity

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this speaking worksheet, students use prompts to ask and answer questions, and communicate with groups. Students complete 2 activities.