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Made Up Words: Parts of Speech
For this language arts worksheet, students find and underline 21 made-up words in the 10 sentences shown. Students identify what part of speech that word is and place each in the parts of speech chart. Finally students write the...
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English Grammar and Usage: Short Answer Quiz/Review
This comprehensive assessment tool covers parts of speech, transitivity, punctuation, common usage errors, and verb tense. Your budding grammarians demonstrate knowledge of an array of discrete points of correct usage in English. I'd use...
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Prepositional Phrases II
Hidden within these sentences are prepositions; think your students can find them? After first reading a brief explanation of this part of speech, young grammarians are asked to examine eight sentences, underlining the prepositional...
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Georgia CRCT - 7th Grade Language Arts Quiz
Writing conventions are the focus of this standardized practice test. Designed for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), these fifteen questions address grammar (capitalization, parts of speech, homonyms) and writing...
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Parts of Speech Adjectives: Building Blocks of Grammar
How do you describe a jellyfish? Individuals write adjectives for Nomura's jellyfish, take notes, and check understanding with a formative assessment. Notes include the definition for adjectives, guiding questions to help writers...
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Similes
Similes are a great way to get your writers thinking about descriptive details. They read a brief explanation which covers clichés and the general wording of a simile. Then, learners try a few on their own. First, they complete nine...
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Linking Verb or Action Verb?
Part of exploring parts of speech is being able to distinguish between linking verbs and action verbs. One implies a stat of being, and one expresses an action. After reviewing the definition briefly, provide your middle schoolers with...
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Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
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The Direct Object
What exactly is a direct object? Use this resource to introduce direct objects to your middle and early high school classrooms. The section at the top explains the part of speech, and then there are 20 sentences below for learners to...
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Parts of Speech Nouns: Building Blocks of Grammar
An engaging PowerPoint presentation helps scholars learn the definition of a noun and provides examples of different types of nouns, such as person, place, abstract, and concrete nouns. Formative assessments within the resource check...
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The Parts of Speech: Adjectives
Are your pupils confused by proper adjectives? Provide them with extra practice identifying, not only the proper adjective, but the noun being modified as well.
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Use Parts of Speech to Improve Sentence Beginnings
Students demonstrate the parts of speech in sentences. In this grammar lesson, students highlight and identify the parts of speech in sentences.
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English Skills Worksheet (6.203)
In this multiple English activities worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments: write three onomatopoeia sentences, add ten endings to ten words, give the root words to eight words, play two rounds of word chess, find the...
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Reported Speech
What did he say? Learn to report what another person said with a learning exercise focused on reported speech. As kids read 20 short statements, they reply with a sentence frame to report what they have learned from each statement.
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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: Relative Pronouns
In this online, interactive worksheet, emerging grammarians respond to seven fill in the blank questions that require them to use relative pronouns. After completing the exercise, they can submit their answers for immediate feedback!
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Intro to Parts of Speech
Students define eight parts of speech, classify words as specific parts of speech, describe their function, and explain how parts of speech help us to communicate more clearly.
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Intro to Parts of Speech
Middle schoolers are introduced to, identify and define the eight parts of speech. They view a variety of sentences and identify each word in each sentence as one of the eight parts of speech.
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Parts of Speech Matching
For this parts of speech review worksheet, students match the 8 parts of speech to the appropriate definition by drawing lines to connect the pairs.
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Parts of Speech Review
Students practice the parts of speech using index cards to label words in a sentence.
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Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech
Students create pieces of writing about a creature they have created. They examine the parts of speech and how they are used in their writing to see how they can write more specifically.
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Parts of Speech - Nouns
In this parts of speech instructional activity, students learn about how nouns are used in sentences. They then identify the nouns in 10 sentences and write 2 of their own sentences using nouns.
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Parts of Speech--Adjectives
In this parts of speech worksheet, students review adjective as they read a brief description and underline all of the adjectives in 15 sentences. In addition, students create 2 of their own sentences using adjectives.
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Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech
Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...