English language arts
Cut the Clutter: Revising for Concision and Voice
Students match wordy phrases to concise versions, cut redundant sentences, switch passive to active voice and rewrite a flat sentence with vivid voice.
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Dialogue Punctuation: Who Said What, and Where Do the Quotation Marks Go?
Students learn six dialogue-punctuation rules, choose the correctly punctuated sentences, fix four errors, and write a short conversation of their own.
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Dialogue That Sounds Real: Punctuation, Tags and Action Beats
Students fix punctuation errors in sample dialogue, learn action beats, and write a short conversation in which one character wants something.
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Dissecting a Town Council Speech
Students read an original speech to a town council, label each sentence as ethos, pathos or logos, and write appeals of their own.
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Four Sentence Types: Statements, Questions, Commands and Exclamations
Students identify the four sentence types, add end marks, rewrite sentences into new types and write one of each about a school field day.
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Friendly Letter Workshop: Parts, Punctuation and a Thank-You Note
Students match the five parts of a friendly letter, fix greeting and closing punctuation, and write a thank-you letter to someone who helped them.
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Greek and Latin Roots: Decode New Words
Students use a reference chart of common Greek and Latin roots to match, complete and invent vocabulary words.
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How Bats Find Their Way in the Dark: Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Students read an original science article about echolocation and answer questions on main idea, evidence and cause and effect.
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How the Writer Built It: Text Structure in a Passage About Honeybees
Students read an original informational passage about honeybee communication and identify the structure and purpose of each paragraph.
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Informative Paragraph: From Fact Cards to Finished Writing
Students sort eight fact cards about honeybee colonies into useful and off-topic, then turn the useful facts into a well-organized informative paragraph.
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Louis Braille and the Six-Dot Code: Sequence and Cause and Effect
Students read an original informational text about the invention of braille, build a timeline, and match causes to effects.
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Mapping a Character Arc: From Flaw to Change
Students read a short original story, map how the main character changes in three stages, and then plan an arc for a character they know.