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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences in Your Writing
Have you ever graded a stack of essays that felt like a series of bland simple sentences? A helpful grammar presentation will help learners spice up their writing by varying their sentence style, making them stronger and more attentive...
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Possessive Nouns
As a way to explore possessive nouns in an interesting way, this presentation has a list of rules, examples, and practice questions. This would be a terrific way to review material you have already covered in class. You could also use it...
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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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What Are Pronouns?
Using an interactive approach, learners explore the rules regarding pronouns. This is a great way to review this topic with younger students. It gives them a motivating way to internalize the idea.
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Where the Red Fern Grows: Understanding Sentences
Using sentences from the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, this presentation explores the use of correct grammar. It starts out by giving examples of complete and incomplete sentences, and then moves on to nouns, verbs, and...
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"The Gunny Wolf": American Folktale
While you tell the story of "The Gunny Wolf," your class will actively participate by asking questions and clarifying. Next, they answer questions about the story to increase comprehension before creating a storyboard to document the...
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Verbs
Review fifth-grade grammar using this resource. Learners identify what a verb is, identify verbs in sentences, and go on a treasure hunt. There are also several suggestions for games they can play to practice using verbs.
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Verb Forms
Targeting some commonly misused verbs, this worksheet could help students avoid language-related errors. While just a short review of verbs, it could be a way to introduce the importance of proper word usage.
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Capitalization
As an easy way to review capitalization rules, an upper elementary or middle school teacher could use this activity. Learners answer 10 questions by identifying whether or not the nouns in the the sentence should be capitalized.
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Word Definitions
Enhance your class' writing skills using this resource. It begins with a list of three words that learners have to define in a creative way. Then, they discuss a set of examples of non descriptive writing and make suggestions for how to...
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Spelling - Adding -ing to Verbs
In this language arts presentation, learners are coached on the proper ways, and proper times, to add -ing to a verb. Clear instructions, and engaging examples are embedded in each slide. A very good PowerPoint to use when teaching this...
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Grammar Workshop: Pronoun Case: I or Me?
Once and for all, discern when to use the pronoun "I" and when to use "me." Clear definitions and examples are given for each category of possessive, subjective, and objective pronouns. In easy-to-understand language, the most helpful...
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Avoiding Run-on Sentences
Viewers are entertained as well as educated by the illustrations in this colorfully animated PowerPoint focused on run-on sentences.
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Identifying Adjectives
Support your bright young grammarians with identifying adjectives using these simple, yet effective skills practice worksheets. Presenting with a series of 18 sentences children are asked to first circle the adjective and then write down...
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Describe It with Adjectives
Put children's descriptive writing skills to the test with these fun collaborative writing activities. Presented with the picture of an object, young writers are are tasked with creating a description that provides enough detail for one...
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Adjective Synonyms
Practice identifying adjectives and using synonyms with one exercise! Learners find the adjective in each sentence and replace it with a synonym from the word bank when they rewrite the sentence.
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Adjective or Adverb?
What's the difference between an adverb and an adjective? And aren't all -ly words adverbs? Reinforce the difference between adverbs and adjectives with a straightforward exercise.
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Choose the Adjective
Is this worksheet challenging or chewy? Allow your pupils to choose the correct adjective for 18 sentences in order to find out.
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Adjectives Can Change Articles
Is it a interesting book or an interesting book? Teach your class when to use a or an when adjectives are involved. Learners write the article for 32 different adjective and noun pairs.
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Questioning Adverbs
How do adverbs enhance the meanings of verbs? Use a activity that prompts kids to identify what question adverbs are answering: when, where, or how.
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Adjectives to Adverbs
Create new adverbs with a list of adjectives. After reviewing how to add -ly to words that end in consonants, as well as words that end in vowels, kids work through 16 adjectives.
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Adverbial Phrases
What is the purpose of adverbial phrases? Find out what questions adverbial phrases answer with a worksheet 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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Identifying Adverbs
Work on adverbs and adverbial phrases with a grammar instructional activity. After reading 15 sentences with adverbs, learners circle the adverbs and adverbial phrases and note what question they are answering (when, how, where, and how...
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Identifying Adverbs II
Investigate the impact and function of adverbs with a grammar worksheet. Kids look for the adverbs and adverbial phrases in 15 sentences, and then underline the verbs that the adverb modifies.