Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Idiom Ideographs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore idioms. They divide into groups of three. Each group is given an idiom and three sentence clues. They discuss the meaing of their assigned idiom. Students create a new sentence using their idiom and dramatize the idiom.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sentences and Sentence Fragments

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students determine the difference between a sentence and a sentence fragment. After discussing important parts of a sentence, students identify the subject, noun and verb of a sentence. They read sentence fragments and determine what...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize the parts of a sentence while working on their locomotor skills. Students, in teams, race to words on index cards. The team collecting enough cards to create a complete sentence wins. Additional variations on the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Full Stops and Capital Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover that a sentence is one complete thought. Students read worksheets and add periods (full stops) and capital letters in the correct places. They organize their stories into paragraphs. Students read aloud their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simplifying sentences

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read through several articles as a class and identify key words in sentences. Students work as a class to reduce the length of the article by shortening the sentences but ensuring that they still make sense.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Problems

For Teachers 3rd
In this mathematics activity, 3rd graders solve ten word problems. They identify what total means and write a division or multiplication sentence for each problem. Students also draw a picture for each problem of the situation.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Division as Making Groups

For Teachers 3rd
In this mathematics learning exercise, 3rd graders make a division sentence with each group illustrated in the box. Then they make groups by circling dots and writing a division sentence. Students also draw a picture and divide them into...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living Sentences

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice writing full sentences. In groups, 1st graders play a game in which they build sentences using nouns, verbs and adjectives. They investigate how to put a sentence into a meaningful order.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms

For Students 9th - 10th
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Practice 4: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lesson engages students in determining "why" each word grouping is a sentence fragment. The lesson involves moving a computer's mouse from each fragment to the reason the word grouping is an incomplete thought.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Complete Sentence Fragments Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Sentence Fragments Exercise 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Dependent Clause

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, and it has great information on the dependent clause. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing dependent...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Capital Community College Foundation provides all the different parts of speech and their definitions. It also shows word functions and their use.
Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, Ii

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 8 question quiz on sentences presents a sentence and asks students questions about its structure. Java is required.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Question Mark

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Capital Community College contains information regarding the correct and incorrect usage of the question mark. Includes some examples.
Handout
University of Washington

Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.