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Teaching Grammar Without the Hammer: Five Fun Activities

For Teachers K - 2nd
There are five lessons on teaching grammar here for you to peruse. Two of them work well for kindergartners; one on teaching synonyms and one on teaching parts of speech by reading Tall Tales. These lessons are especially engaging and...
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Indefinite Pronouns

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Everyone can practice indefinite pronouns with this exercise! Learners complete 14 sentences by filling in the correct indefinite pronoun. A brief definition is provided to assist learners.
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Spelling Activities

For Students 2nd - 4th
Use this list of spelling activities all year long to help your class spell each week's list of words! This list provides 12 different ways for class members to practice their spelling. Learners identify vowels, consonants, synonyms, and...
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Writing Interesting Sentences

For Students 2nd - 6th
Help your class build their own 20-word sentences with this step-by-step guide designed to enhance sentence depth, interest, and variety in the work of young writers. They complete five basic SVO sentences using a given word bank. Then...
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What is a Haiku? How Do You Write a Haiku?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Haiku poetry is explored in this language arts lesson. Yong readers identify the characteristics of haiku and read several examples. Students make connections between their study of Japan and the poetic form of haiku, and they write...
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Write a Story

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Here is a great way to explore narrative writing! Learners review a previously constructed story map and identify the characters, setting, and main events in the book Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock retold by Eric A. Kimmel. They...
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The Sentence Contest

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young writers complete work with sentence structure. Theys go over the definition of a sentence before deciding whether given groups of words are sentences. They view and identify the sentences on a teacher made chart.
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Playing with Adverbs

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Kids demonstrate their understanding of the different types of adverbs by using the clues provided to add a how, when, or where words to sentences.
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Articles A /An and Noun Classification

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this singular nouns worksheet, students classify words as foods, animals, or occupations and write a/an before the nouns. Students list eleven words.
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Passive Voice Activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this interactive sentence rephrasing worksheet, students rewrite each of the 29 sentences in a passive voice. This worksheet is interactive.
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Adverbs That Modify Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this adverb and adjectives worksheet, students read ten sentences, underline the adverb in each sentence and write the word it modifies after the end of the sentence. Students study the first one done for them.
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Amazing Animal Alliterations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Creatures can cause creativity! Alliteration can make writing more enjoyable and entertaining. Help your pupils grasp this concept by using animals as inspiration for alliterative sentences. Prepare your class for the activities by first...
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Student Mad Libs

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students investigate the different parts of speech by participating in a fill in the blank activity. In this Mad Libs lesson, students define the different parts of speech and discuss how they are used appropriately in sentences....
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Controlled Narrative Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students add details to their narratives. In this narrative writing lesson plan, students look at a simple four sentence narrative and add adjectives and adverbs to make it more descriptive. They do this activity whole class, in partners...
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Time & Itineraries Two

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore time management by participating in itinerary activities. For this time telling lesson, students identify how to read a clock, how to communicate the time to others and how to plan for events in the day. Students...
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Desert Cinquains

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars use the cinquain structure and correct parts of speech to write a poem with a desert theme.
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Suffix City

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these spelling worksheets students will focus on words with the -eat spelling pattern. Using these five words students will add suffixes to each word and complete 12 sentences with the correct missing word.
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Suffix City

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these spelling worksheets students will focus on words with the -eat spelling pattern. Using these five words students will add suffixes to each word and complete 12 sentences with the correct missing word.
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Editing Sentences

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this editing sentences worksheets, students cut out sets of cards that contain punctuation and capitalization mistakes and rewrite the sentences correctly. Students write twenty sentences on four cards.
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I love My Hair

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore strategies to help focus on writing a personal narrative. In this personal narrative writing lesson, students read a book and discuss how the author lets readers know how they feel. Learners find a moment in their own...
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Writing a Storybook

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by creating their own stories in class. In this book making lesson plan, students read the story City Pig in class and create storyboard illustrations in order to analyze the story. Students utilize these...
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Wacky Web Tales

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study the parts of speech and then review them. They identify each part of speech and place them on a tree map. Then they visit a website to create a "Wacky Web Tale" using information from the tree map. They print their tales...
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Parts of Speech Museum

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students apply their knowledge of the basic parts of speech while studying them. They create display boards that show visual and written examples of the different parts of speech. The museum consists of project boards with pictures and...
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"Quack Said the Billy-goat"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the poem together, "Quack Said the Billy-goat" and discuss what makes the poem funny and which words rhyme. They observe the teacher writing a new first verse, changing some of the text, but leaving the original rhyme...

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