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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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Questioning Adverbs
How do adverbs enhance the meanings of verbs? Use a worksheet that prompts kids to identify what question adverbs are answering: when, where, or how.
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Add an Appositive
Kids demonstrate their understanding of appositives, what they are, where they occur in a sentence, and how they are punctuated, by revising a series of sentences and adding appositives.
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Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of...
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Using Collective Nouns
What do you call a group of soccer players? Or a bunch of bees? Young grammarians review eight sentences and add the correct collective noun based on the context clues they observe.
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What is an Appositive?
Appositives, those tricky little words and phrases that provide more information about nouns, are the subject of a series of worksheets linked to this resource.
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Punctuating Appositives
Where do the commas go? Kids rewrite a series of sentences using commas to set off the appositives in each sentence.
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Subordinate Conjunctions and Complex Sentences for SMART Board
A SMART board is a great way to get kids engaged and excited about grammar. Using this SMART board lesson plan and worksheet, pupils study the rules of conjunctions, clauses, and complex sentences. After they have worked on the...
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Conjunctions
Complete exercises for conjunctions in this conjunctions lesson. Middle schoolers work in pairs to combine sample sentences. They analyze the conjunctions and choose one to help them rewrite the sentences. Additionally, they may complete...
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Gingerbread Baby's Point of View #8
Read the story Gingerbread Baby and use these various activities to connect to grammar, art, and point of view. In one activity, learners create character masks. They practice writing verbs on the back of the masks to tell what each...
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My Daily Routine
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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Language Arts
In this literacy worksheet, 5th graders practice putting the sentences into the proper grammar structure, using the correct punctuation, and finding the definitions in the dictionary.
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Active/Passive Voice
Reinforce your lesson on passive and active voice with this grammar worksheet. Young grammarians review examples of active and passive voice, and then determine which voice is used in a set of ten sentences. Next, students rewrite...
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School News
Compile a school newsletter with your budding journalists! Use the school calendar to assign each learner a specific even to cover! Possible events include the science fair, sports games, concerts, talent shows, etc. This is a project...
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Repairing Sentence Fragments
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 2 short answer questions regarding sentence fragments. Students may submit their answers to be scored
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Conjugate a Verb Today! (Negative)
In this grammar skills worksheet, students practice conjugating verbs in the negative form. Students complete three sets of present, past, and future forms.
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Improving Editing and Proofreading Skills
Young scholars explore language arts by correcting grammatical errors. In this proofreading activity, students identify the importance of editing their own writing and demonstrate their proofreading abilities by correcting several...
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Subject Verb Agreeement Baseball
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the subject/ verb agreement rule that is part of English grammar rules. They practice reading the correct context and then take time to write correctly during independent...
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Sentences
Young scholars create different types of sentences. In this sentence writing lesson, students use various types of sentences to make writing interesting. Young scholars play online games and use the interactive whiteboard to practice.
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Using Apostrophes
In this interactive grammar activity, students choose the correct way to use apostrophes in each of the seven sentences.
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Grammar Skills
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table by filling in the correct words. The table is divided into adjective, adverb form, noun form, and verb form.
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Prepositions
In this grammar worksheet, students will focus on prepositions. Students are asked to read four words in each row and place a check next to that which is a preposition.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Identify Common Errors
In this common grammar errors worksheet, students use their grammar skills to identify the mistakes in 20 sentences. Some sentences do not have mistakes.
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What's My Pronoun?
For this what's my pronoun? worksheet, 6th graders identify singular and plural pronouns and use them in sentences in a card game format (pronoun descriptions must be first written on index cards).