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Parts of Speech
This online multiple choice quiz focuses on upper-level grammar concepts. In addition to covering simple parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, this resource also covers more advanced information, such as transitive vs....
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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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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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Of Mice and Men: Novel Study
Why is personification such a popular literary device for many authors? Learners answer the question as they engage in activities from the novel study for the classic Of Mice and Men. They also scan the novel to find examples of the...
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Journey To The Centre of The Earth: Novel Study
Traveling where no man has traveled before, Journey to the Centre of the Earth contains a secret code right to the middle of Earth! Scholars match 10 new vocabulary words, answer comprehension questions, create literary devices, and...
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Worksheet 1: Review: Kinds of Words
By using this activity, learners identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, articles and prepositions. Budding grammarians fill in a 24-question chart in which they use the sentences given to categorize the words.
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Pronouns: Interrogative, Demonstrative, Indefinite
English language pronouns pose special usage challenges. The second session about them on EnglishCramSchool.com addresses interrogative, demonstrative, and indefinite pronouns. Aspiring grammarians review rules and information,...
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Pronouns and Antecedents
When should you use a singular antecedent to agree with a collective pronoun? Give this review sheet to your class to clear up this common grammar mistake. Twenty questions challenge young readers to identify the correct pronoun using...
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Excessive Nominalizations
Eliminate unnecessary nominalizations from your middle schoolers' writing! After reviewing a reference page for the -tion ending (and when it can be excessive in writing), students rewrite eight sentences to change nominalizations to a...
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Language Arts Worksheets
Looking for some quick grammar warm-ups? What about handy spelling crossword puzzles? Find everything you need with a resource that contains practice worksheets for parts of speech, parts of a sentence, common grammatical errors, tricky...
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Worksheet 7: Vocabulary Review
Developing a rich vocabulary is an important task for learners from elementary school through high school. This vocabulary review has students use high-level vocabulary in context. There are 10 questions.
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Enough About I — Let’s Talk About Me
Students review parts of speech and share informative usage presentations to their classmates. In this grammar lesson, students discuss the importance of using appropriate speech and then read "The I's Have It." Students create their own...
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That & What
Providing a review of that and what, this worksheet can be a quick and easy way to have students review this concept. The ten questions in the activity can be answered either online or on a worksheet.
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The Writing Center: Prepositions
While the focus is applicable to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and higher education, the slides are text heavy (as they were originally designed for higher education). Learners will review rules for using a preposition and how to use...
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Interesting & Interested, etc.
While just a quick review of word usage, this ten question activity could be a great filler activity. Learners could hone their vocabulary and spelling skills using this quiz which can be done both online or as a worksheet.
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Simple or Progressive
Proper verb usage is reviewed in this worksheet. Students fill in the blanks in 10 multiple choice questions relating to verbs.
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She's = is or has?
Providing eleven sentences for English learners to review, this worksheet focuses on defining the contractions in each sentence. Students choose the correct definition based on the context clues of the sentence. Contractions include...
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Possessive Pronouns
This worksheet reviews types of pronouns, provides a list of possessive pronouns, as well as prompts for writing original sentences using 14 different possessive pronouns. Plus, participants put possessive pronouns in their proper places...
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Interrogative Pronouns
Some interrogative pronouns are tricky like who and whom. Help your class use interrogative pronouns and predicate pronouns correctly with this 11-slide review. Explanations and examples complete the first six slides, and a practice...
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Jabberwocky Lesson Plan
Students complete a review of the parts of speech using a jabberwocky poem format. In this parts of speech and poetry instructional activity, students read a jabberwocky poem and identify parts of speech in the poem. Students list...
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Preposition Man
Students practice using prepositions by writing on the tracing of a human. In this parts of speech lesson, students create a giant poster using the tracing of a classmate's body and fill in the outline using prepositions in places where...
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Test Review Sheet: Irony, Comma Rules, and Sentence Variety,
Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...
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Verb Tenses
While offering a long list of questions involving verb conjugation, this activity would require teacher direction. Some of the instructions aren't clear. The 30 question review of verb usage would be a good review for middle school...
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Commas and Colons and Semicolons? OH MY!
Take a close look at both the definitions and uses of commas, colons, and semicolons. Commas set off clear parts of sentences, colons come before an explanation, and semicolons join two complete thoughts. Review these types of...