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Quantifier Exercises
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Students recognize the simple past forms in a folktale. They supply some of these forms when asked
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Word Play
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
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
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
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
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
In this speaking worksheet, students use prompts to ask and answer questions, and communicate with groups. Students complete 2 activities.
