Scrabble for the Classroom

Materials: Small pieces of paper, pens, white/chalk board and markers/chalk
Description: Cut up small pieces of paper into about one inch squares. Write one letter and its point value on each paper. In regular Scrabble there are 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution:
2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, [...]

Limericks Worksheet

This worksheet is full-sized, and is meant to help students write their own limericks in English. Besides giving examples at the top, the bottom half of the worksheet gives lists of rhyming words for students to use in their own poems. Students do not actually write on this worksheet, and two to three students can [...]

Irregular Past Tense Worksheet

This worksheet is half-sized, and includes a word search grid. Students must take the present-tense verbs at the bottom of the sheet and find their past tense counterparts within the grid. On the blank back of the worksheet, students should write a sentence with each of the past tense verbs.
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-Abeth S.

State Report Worksheet

This worksheet is double-sided, and meant to be folded into a booklet. Students choose one of the 50 American states to research, and then use the Internet or school library to find the information within the booklet. There are twenty questions inside, and on the back of the booklet students must draw a map of [...]

Free Write

Materials: an egg timer/stopwatch/clock, paper and pens
Description: This is based on the idea suggested by research which states that the number of words a student can write in 5 minutes is an indication of fluency and ability in a foreign language. The generally accepted number is 100 words in 5 minutes.
At the beginning of the [...]

Spelling Race with Cards

Materials: a set of alphabet flash cards for each team playing (either cards sent from the states, or you can make them here)
Description: Break the class into teams. Word to the wise: you might want to spread the teams out as far as possible to avoid accusations of cheating. Each team is given a set [...]

Egg Drop

Materials: one egg for each student/team (they can give you stotinki for this), one ziploc bag for each egg (Very important! Get these sent from home if you want to do this!) packing materials like old newspapers, towels, plastic grocery bags, scotch tape, etc.
Description: First of all, don’t panic. Letting students drop eggs out a [...]

Pass the Chalk

Materials: a chalkboard and chalk, or a white board and two markers
Description: Students divide into two teams (three for large classes) and each team has a marker or a piece of chalk. Everyone is given a category (like food or animals) and teams have to race to put as many words on their list as [...]

Playing Card Stories

Materials: a deck or two of playing cards, paper and pens
Description: Before class, I write a list on the board of all the playing cards in a normal deck of cards. Each card value is assigned an adjective or a noun (usually I give the number cards adjectives and the face cards nouns). Then we [...]

Alphabet List

Materials: pen and paper
Description: Start with one student and ask for a noun that starts with “A,” and then a verb that starts with “B” from the following person, and an adjective that starts with “C,” followed by a noun that starts with “D” and so on until you reach “Z” (alternating noun-verb-adjective). To make [...]

Sentence Race

Materials: white board and markers
Description: Separate the class into two teams (works best with classes that have around 12 students total), and divide the chalkboard/whiteboard in half with a line down the middle. One student from each team comes to the board. The teacher reads a subject, verb and specific tense aloud and students must [...]