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Prepositional Phrase Recognition Practice
Print the preposition chart on one piece of paper, and give your learners the exercise on a separate piece of paper. After reading through some of the prepositions listed on the chart, let learners try to identify the prepositional...
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Marking Sentences
To complete this instructional activity, your class needs to know how to find the subject, verb, prepositional phrase, and infinitive in basic sentences. While the sentences themselves are short, most learners will need to read through...
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Hillbilly Feud:Language Arts Game
English language learners or native elementary schoolers will enjoy practicing their parts of speech with this interactive grammar game. Set deep in the backwoods of Tennessee, the class splits in two to join either the Hartfields or...
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Prepositions
While this worksheet looks like it was intended for a grammar or language arts journal, it could easily be done on loose-leaf paper. There are five exercises to practice identifying and using prepositions and prepositional phrases....
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Learning About Prepositional Phrases
What is a prepositional phrase? Read through the first page of your packet to give your budding grammarians a better sense of what a prepositional phrase is. Then, have them complete the two activities provided. The first asks them to...
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The City Life or the country Life: conventions: Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs
Reinforce knowledge of adjectives and adverbs by game playing. To better understand English conventions young writers, use flashcards to identify the base word and its comparative or superlative form.
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Grammar: Adjective Order 2
Bring your learners to the computer lab for this quick exercise placing adjectives in the correct order. There are six examples to work with, and learners must place each of the adjectives in the correct order. What makes this resource...
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Adjective Word Order
Wait, how do you order adjectives in a sentence? Whether you're an English language learner or a native speaker, adjective order is confusing for everyone. After teaching your learners the basics (and possibly providing them with a chart...
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Using Details from Text to Identify Author's Purpose
Explore writing techniques by analyzing newspapers and magazines with middle schoolers. They will collaborate in small groups to read local news stories and identify the main ideas and author's intent. They also utilize an information...
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Auxiliary Verbs and the Verb To Be in Questions
There are 10 questions for this simple auxiliary verb learning exercise. Each question has three multiple choice answers provided, and learners must choose the word that correctly fits in the blank provided.
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Auxiliary Verbs in Question Forms - Complete the Sentences
Introduce your English language learners to one of the most widely used auxiliary verbs: to have. They practice using auxiliary verbs in question form by completing the 12 sentences provided, some of which are in the negative.
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Label the Pictures (Above, Behind, Below, Beside, In Front of)
A cross-curricular approach to prepositions includes a geometry aspect as learners label eight pictures of shapes to indicate their positioning. Each picture has two shapes, some with arrows to show which shape's location scholars are...
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Reading 2. Vocabulary Practice: Present and Past, Simple and Progressive
This worksheet serves a dual purpose. First, teach your class the 12 vocabulary words provided. Then, after they identify which word belongs in each sentence, have them identify which verb tense each sentence uses. They distinguish...
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Using the Present Progressive: Word Search Game
Use the six clues to help your language learners find the accompanying words in the word search. Words can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, but the first letter in each word is shaded gray to ease the challenge.
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Gender of Nouns: Grade 2
Break down noun gender with a colorful grammar worksheet. Using word banks, learners classify and group nouns according to gender and write down feminine nouns that correspond to given masculine nouns. While this resource is labeled as a...
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English Exercises: Present Simple Exercises
Here is a blinking, wiggling interactive online practice exercise in which learners adapt 30 sentences to correctly use the present simple tense. They rewrite negative sentences as affirmatives. They may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Exercises: Present Continuous Tense
This resource appears to be interactive, but I could not get it to work online. However, it provides practice using modal verbs correctly, and could be printed and copied for use at a desk, or your could project it and discuss with the...
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Thanksgiving: Simple Present Tense Review
Learners read eight sentences and fill in the blanks with the correct simple present tense verb needed to complete it correctly. Thanksgiving theme could help out in those antsy days before the holiday break.
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Adjectives and Adverbs Quiz
There are only five questions provided here, but you could use this as a quick pre-assessment to map our your adjective and adverb unit. Individuals must choose the correct sentence; one sentence uses an adjective and the other uses an...
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Adjective or Adverb?
Sometimes adjectives and adverbs are accidentally interchanged. Give your learners this quick 15-question assessment to see if they can choose the correct word to complete each sentence.
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Chapter 5: Time Adverbs
Adverbs are among the more complex words in the English language. First, study the time adverb pattern in sentence one. Then, have writers make their own sentences following the adverb pattern detailed in the first sentence. They create...
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Magical Creatures Land
The opening of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit provides a model of how to use rich details to create a setting. After reading the description of Bilbo Baggins’ abode, young writers create their own magical home for a fantasy creature. The...
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Relative Pronouns
Provide your independent learner with some practice on relative pronouns. A brief explanation of when who, which, and whose is provided at the top of the screen before learners can scroll to two exercises. The first has them choose the...
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Defining Relative Pronouns Exercise
After defining relative pronoun to your fourth and fifth graders, give them this simple worksheet to assess their understanding. The worksheet is straightforward: no graphics, examples, or engaging designs, but it does test your learners...