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Demonstrative Pronouns
Ask your pupils to demonstrate their understanding of demonstrative pronouns by completing this activity. There are two parts to the exercise. First, learners identify the pronouns in sentences, and then they complete a short series of...
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Word-building
Practice changing verb tenses and adverbs with a instructional activity on vocabulary. A word bank at the top of the page instructs third and fourth graders to add -ing, -s, and -ful to different words. Great for reinforcing vocabulary...
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Forming Plural Nouns
Interactive SMART Board activities provide young grammarians with practice changing singular nouns to plural nouns. Learners then create collages on which they inscribe the singular and plural form of the noun label.
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ESOL Competencies: Telephone Communication
Help, there's an emergency! Adult English language learners need to know how to express concern and call for help in an emergency. Provide them with this comprehensive list of vocabulary and lead them through the exercises given....
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"I Spy": Using Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases
Students define adjectives and use adjectives and descriptive phrases to write a descriptive paragraph. They write a description of a sensory item, and read and discuss a five senses chart. Students then complete a chart using adjectives...
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Module 9--Future Society
In this making predictions worksheet, students write nine sentences about various areas making predictions about their lives. Students read a text about recent changes in Ireland and Dublin and decide what type of word might fit...
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Cartoon Stories
All ages love to engage in cartoon writing –- little do they know that they actually learn quite a bit from it! In an instructional session focused on literacy syntax and vocabulary, your pupils work cooperatively to draw six pictures...
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Irregular Verbs
Divided into two 10-question exercises, this worksheet provides practice with irregular verbs in the simple past tense. Ten present-tense, monosyllabic verbs are given in a word bank; learners write the past tense form in a blank in each...
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Gerunds and Infinitives
Delve into the world of gerunds and infinitives with this detailed powerpoint. Each slide provides examples and corresponding images. Stopping throughout the presentation would allow for guided and individual practice. This could also be...
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What is a Verb?
Verbs are the most exciting words because they describe action. Kids can get excited about verbs too! Once they are provided with a solid description of what they are, how they are used, and what they look like in sentences, verbs will...
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Conjunctions Worksheet
Help your early elementary learners write complex or compound sentences using conjunctions. They use the listed conjunctions to combine five different sentences. They then use the space provided to compose a complex sentence of their own.
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Its or It's
What's the difference between its and it's? Clear up any misunderstandings in your third grade language arts class. Practice sentences use its or it's twice, prompting learners to use context clues for each usage. At the end of the...
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Perfecting Plural Nouns
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...
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What Possessed You?
To review the possessive form, a teacher could use this presentation to help learners cement their understanding of grammar. Using commonly encountered mistakes, it gives students a quiz in which they identify the correct word for use in...
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Adverbial Phrases
What is the purpose of adverbial phrases? Find out what questions adverbial phrases answer with a activity that focuses on grammar. As kids work through 16 sentences, they underline the phrases and use the space provided to mark what...
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Simplify with Pronouns Worksheet Two
Use nursery rhymes to help teach pronouns. Learners read the familiar sentences and replace the repeated words with the proper pronouns. Prior knowledge of these phrases helps to scaffold the exercise.
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Grammar Worksheet: Lie vs. Lay
To do something to someone or something or not to do something to someone. That is the question. And it is the source of the confusion between lie and lay. The strength of this worksheet is in the clear, cogent explanation for the...
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Adjectives Worksheet: Puppy
This puppy really wants to get to its bone, but it can only do so by following a trail of adjectives. Pupils make the puppy's path clear by coloring in all the stones that include adjectives. They then write a sentence about what happens...
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Using Adjectives to Describe a Busy Street Scene
What just happened in the street? After several introductory activities about adjectives and description, pupils use all that they have learned to compose a paragraph about a hectic intersection.
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Worksheets
Great, greater, greatest! Invite your learners to practice their comparative and superlative adjectives with these grammar instructional activity.
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Nouns Verbs: Use It Two Ways
Scholars show what they know about nouns and verbs in a learning exercise that requires them to read five words then use them in two sentences—as a noun and a verb.
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Horse Character: Ceramics Lesson
Animals oftentimes elicit various characteristics which make them symbolic or representative of human feeling, action, or emotion. The class creates horse characters out of clay to show character action and symbolism. This is a great...
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Predicate Adjectives
Focus on identifying predicate adjectives in sentences. Use the first sheet to review adjectives and predicate adjectives. Several examples are provided along with brief explanations. Then, move on to the second sheet to put this...
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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.