Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence frames...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Vocabulary Fashion Show
Inspired by Debra Frasier's clever vocabulary fair from her book, Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, individual students will imagine what a vocabulary fashion show would be like. Assuming the role of a fashion show announcer,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Inventing Stories for Your Favorite Clothes
In this lesson plan students will write descriptors for a clothes catalogue.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Painting Places With Words
In this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Fragments in Short Passages
Practice sentence skills by choosing the sentence fragment in each of 20 passage.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Subordinating Conjunctions [Pdf]
To review subordinating conjunctions, you'll find a list of common subordinating conjunctions and two exercises in which students practice their understanding. [PDF]
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 3 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with map directions. Level 3 adjectives and adverbs are also emphasized on this assessment.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Amazing Spelling Fleas
Practice and play five games that build language skills like recognizing parts of speech, connecting images and words, spelling and completing words, and understanding simple sentences.
Other
Tutorial World: Primary 3 English
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for third-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems With Basic Parts of Speech
Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
Quia
Quia: Map Skills
Students will be challenged when they take this interactive grammar quiz? This quiz asks students to identify whether or not the sentence is grammatically correct. Come and check it out.
Quia
Quia: Grammar: To, Two, Too
In this activity, students are to read the sentence, and select the complete verb phrase from the options given in an arrow-down box. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Comma Usage Enclosure
In this exercise, students are asked to identify and type the verbs of sentences into the boxes provided. Java is required.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences
In this instructional activity, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Camping Sentences
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Sports Theme
In this instructional activity, Hoops, written by Robert Burleigh, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What",...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
Other
Kim's Korner: Color Coded Parts of Speech Kinesthetic Lesson Plan
Students can brush up on their knowledge of the parts of speech when they do this lesson. This site contains a kinesthetic lesson plan that caters to children with all types of learning styles.
Other
Rhl School: English Basics: Real Sentences
How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? This resource features examples of complete and incomplete sentences that students can identify and fix.