This PowerPoint slideshow teaches students how to distinguish noun types such as possessive, singular, plural, concrete, abstract, common and proper. It also teaches the capitalization rules for proper nouns.
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Teampedia (www.teampedia.net) is a free, searchable, and easily updatable collaborative encyclopedia of team building resources, and icebreakers that anyone can edit. This site is designed for a wide audience including: teachers, students, team leaders, trainers, managers, camp directors, counselors, and youth groups.
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This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community. Group goal-setting, brainstorming, peer feedback, group decision-making, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure are used to create a safe, supportive environment for learning in the classroom. In Part 1, students are introduced to the goal-setting process. They will practice the first step of the process as they set individual and class behavioral goals.
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This site is a community of teachers using Restorative Practices in their classrooms. It is a useful place to find ideas and strategies to enhance your use of Restorative Practices, including class activities, games, labs, and an overarching philosophy of restorative practices.
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Consumer math often requires shoppers to analyze and compare the same products at different stores. In addition to price variations, retailers offer incentives or discounts. This lesson requires students to be informed consumers who calculate three purchasing options and conclude which is the best deal. The activity enables students to apply mathematics to a real-life situation.
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This light activity deals with "silent letters" of English language which are encountered in a large number of English language words. Students read a fairly simple dialogue with the blanks for words containing silent letters. Silent letters, however, are listed while the rest of the letters are blanked. Students find the missing words and become aware of silent letters. Great activity for a warm-up.
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The website is a repository of games and activities for children that can also be used with adults. Features hundreds of games listed covering virtually all occasions: day or night, indoor and outdoor, from small quiet games through to large boisterous games and wide games for when you have acres of space to play in.
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Career Gates: Soft Skills highlights the skills employees need to be successful. These include communication, eye-contact, listening, teamwork, positive attitude, proper handshake, professional appearance and respect. Soft skills are the abilities to get along with others, resolve conflict and work together towards a common goal. These skills can be a strong indicator in why you get a job or why you don't get a job. A desire to learn and an ability to learn, you can advance. Many companies will hire people that have soft skills over someone with more technical skills because technical skills can be taught more easily.
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Study Zone is made up of levels. Each level has language topics (grammar,reading vocabulary, puzzles). Each topic has lessons. Lessons include exercises to help adult students improve their English. There are five levels available: Upper Beginner, Lower Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, and Advanced.
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Tutorial on count and non-count nouns with audio, video, examples, vocabulary lists, and quantity word usage.
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Tutorial on count and non-count nouns. Continuation of Part One
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This is an independent activity for students. This is best as a follow-up lesson on the Big Bang Theory and the formation of the universe.
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This is a lesson plan, student worksheet, and teacher answer key to introduce identifying text structures and using appropriate graphic organizers (GO) for each text structure. There is an introduction with a video lecture from which students can get basic information and examples on 6 text structures. There is a link to more guided and independent work in this area. The author used this lesson in a pre-GED Adult Basic Education class with non-native English speakers who read at a 5.0 - 8.0 GLE.
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Ereading Worksheets provides teachers with high-quality reading worksheets, activities, and resources aligned with Common Core State Standards. This website uses a skill focused approach where each activity targets a specific set of skills. The resources on this website cover a broad range of reading, writing, and language arts skills and everything is ad supported and completely free of cost. Many of the lessons include .rtf files which you may use to edit and modify each assignment for your particular use. The assignments on this website are most appropriate for students reading at a 6 - 12 level, but with a few modifications these activities can be adapted for any grade level.
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The moment had finally come. Far too much bad blood existed between the colonial leaders and the crown to consider a return to the past. More and more colonists felt deprived by the British not only of their money and their civil liberties, but their lives as well. Bloodshed had begun over a year ago and there seemed little chance of a ceasefire. The radical wing of the Continental Congress was gaining strength with each passing day. It was time for a formal break with mother England. It was time to declare independence.
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This is a review lesson on author's purpose. There is a short review of the three primary purposes followed by 20 examples. Students read the example to decide which purpose best fits.
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This powerpoint explains 7 nouns types; possessive, common, proper, singular, plural, concrete and abstract.
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This is a PowerPoint of common verbs used in the workplace and at home. It can be used for beginning level English language learners. Part 1 uses clip art of 16 verbs and part 2 uses Brendan Tuttle’s artistic illustrations of 28 verbs. The additional PowerPoint is a handout for students to write the verb under the picture and there is also a list of suggested activities for the teacher.
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Using a predefined “Robot Vocabulary” your students will figure out how to guide one another to accomplish specific tasks without discussing them first. This segment teaches students the connection between symbols and actions, as well as the valuable skill of debugging. If time allows, there is an option to introduce functions at the end of the lesson. Objectives: • Learn to convert real-world activities into instructions • Gain practice coding instructions with symbols • Gain understanding of the need for precision in coding • Gain practice debugging malfunctioning code • Understand the usefulness of functions and parameters (grades 7+)
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A cute cartoon video of a superwoman and a student where they discuss how to connect compound sentences.
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