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ESL Grammar Lessons
Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning grammar with this ESL resource. Offering a great way to teach about relative clauses, this activity engages students with a series of partner, small group, and whole class speaking and...
Pearson
Object Pronouns Grammar Activities
Young grammarians put a sentence together with the help of a short, straightforward grammar learning exercise. Learners match subject and object pronouns before unscrambling the parts of five different sentences.
Curated OER
Grammar Lesson Plan: Making Suggestions
Focusing on let's, why don't, and shall I/we, a grammar instructional activity takes English learners through the process of making suggestions. The instructional activity comes with several activities, including scripts of conversations...
Curated OER
English Verb Forms
Challenge young grammarians with a short assessment on verbals. As your class progresses through each exercise, they demonstrate understanding for modal verbs, imperatives, infinitives, and gerunds.
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Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
What's the difference between the present perfect and simple past? Have your class practice identifying and using both of these verb tenses through pair activities, whole-class discussion, and a worksheet.
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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...
Curated OER
English Tenses and Verb Forms
If your class could use some grammar help, this learning exercise could be a good addition to your lesson on verb tenses. Three exercises guide learners through the conditional tense, offering several ways to describe the results of...
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Exercise 3
Are you looking for resources to supplement your grammar lesson? Use this lesson on misplaced and/or dangling modifiers in writing. Middle schoolers complete twenty multiple choice questions where they must find the sentence that has no...
Curated OER
Grammar Practice: Consistency of Tense
After a concise explanation of verb inconsistency, learners study detailed examples and then rewrite a series of sentences to eliminate tense inconsistencies. An answer key is provided. The worksheet could be used as part of a mini...
Scholastic
Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
Poetry4kids
Alliteration and Assonance Lesson Plan
Scholars analyze the poem My Puppy Punched Me in the Eye by Ken Nesbitt in order to locate examples of alliteration and assonance. After reading the poem, alliterative words are underlined and assonant words are circled.
K12 Reader
Circle It! Indirect Objects
If you give this instructional activity to your class, make sure you know where the indirect object is! Young grammarians work on their grammar skills with a series of ten sentences, each with an indirect object ready for pupils to circle.
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns
Work on who, what, where, and how with several grammar activities. Additionally, kids complete sentences with demonstrative (relative) pronouns based on whether items are close or far away.
Tri-Valley Local Schools
Commonly Confused Words
Who gave you grammar homework? Or is it whom? Clarify the meanings of several commonly confused words, including affect and effect, among and between, and then and than with a handout and grammar practice activity.
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Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced modifiers can alter the meaning of a sentence, and take away from a writer's intended message. Use the reference sheet and activity to show middle schoolers how to edit confusing sentences with misplaced modifiers. A great...
K12 Reader
Conjunctions: And
Math isn't the only subject where pupils get to add! Focus on conjunctions with a grammar lesson in which class members connect nouns with the word and.
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Subject-Verb Agreement - To Do (do, does)
A straightforward activity on subject verb agreement challenges your young grammarians to identify the proper form of to do. Twenty questions prompt pupils to rewrite sentences with either do or does. This activity would be a great...
Prestwick House
Ten Days to A+ Grammar: Verbs
What are you doing today? What have you done this week? What will you be doing next month? Focus on verb usage with a series of fill-in-the-black exercises on basic tenses, inappropriate shifts in tense, and active and passive voice.
Grammar Net
Active to Passive
Do they inspect the trains, or are the trains inspected? Change twelve sentences from the active voice into the passive voice with a grammar worksheet.
K12 Reader
Color the Nouns: Octopus
An octopus has eight arms—but how many nouns can your learners find on this worksheet? A color-by-grammar worksheet unveils a smiling octopus when scholars color all nouns green.
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Avoiding Run-On Sentences (I)
Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...
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Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Language Arts Quiz
Review word choice and grammar skills with this practice test for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Fifteen multiple-choice questions prompt eighth graders to recall writing strategies, grammar skills, and...
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Imperative Sentences, Future Progressive Tense
Finish your homework! Kids work on imperative sentences with a grammar worksheet, which also focuses on future progressive tense (going to). After they use a word bank to write instructions for a person going on a trip, they fill in the...
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English Lesson Plan on National Grammar Day
Aid your English langauge learners with this series of grammar activities. In this National Grammar Day worksheet, learners read a passage about the importance of the day and complete a variety of different activities involving this...