Nine lessons makeup a unit designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary through practice pages based on readings of African folktales. Each lesson consists of a mini lesson, a vocabulary review, and a activity. Topics include...

Students analyze parts of speech, sentence structure, and ver usage in this ten lesson unit on grammar. Through games, activities, assignments, and printed material, the concepts are supported and reinforced in a creative way.

Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...

This lesson on grammar and writing focuses on clauses including dependent and independent clauses and run-on and comma splice sentences. It features links to "Purdue OWL: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses," "Purdue OWL:...

This lesson focuses on complete sentences, fragments, subordinating conjunctions, and dependent clauses. It defines each and provides examples; then provides a self-assessment in which students read sentences or parts of sentences and...

A clause is a group of words that acts as a subject and a group of words that acts as a verb. A clause consists of a subject and a predicate, where the predicate is typically a verb phrase. [0:57]

This page from an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of main and subordinate (independent and dependent) clauses. It also provides an interactive exercise on identifying these types of...

In this No Nonsense Grammar Collection, students explore a range of commonly taught grammar principles for elementary and middle schoolers with these short, fun videos and activities. From the difference between dependent and independent...

This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).

This section of an online English-grammar book introduces and provides examples of different types of clauses. Because this is from a British source, it uses different terms to identify the types of clauses, calling an independent...

This section of a chapter from an online English-grammar book from the University College London discusses the uses of subordinate clauses (dependent clauses) in sentences. It also provides an exercise in identifying the purposes of...

This is an introduction to a Grammar and Writing unit. It focuses on a review of dependent and independent clauses, writing concise sentences, avoiding passive voice, formatting writing assignments, documenting sources using MLA...

This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.