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The Present & Imperfect Progressive
Starting off with present participles, this resource tackles the progressive with grammatical explanations, examples in English and Spanish, and an interactive practice exercise. Use the menu at the top of the webpage to navigate to each...
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Scrambled Sentences
Here's a clever classroom game that will help learners with their sentence writing skills. It's a fast-paced game that is played in groups. Each makes up scrambled sentences that the other groups must solve. There are plenty of examples...
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Run-On Sentences
As kids develop writing skills, run-on sentences are bound to happen. Review what a run-on sentence is with the first part of this worksheet, and then let them try to correct the 10 run-on sentences provided. Since there are a few...
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Number Operations
Inject fun into your math review! Pupils review basic math operations with decimals as well as addition and subtraction with simple fractions. In this number operations lesson, students work in groups to create a game for the math skill...
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Identifying Adverbs IV
What a mess! Read about Lilly-Ann's birthday cupcake surprise and work on grammar skills at the same time. Four lengthy paragraphs provide kids with many opportunities to find and circle adverbs. They note the ways that adverbs come in...
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Language Variation: Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Sociolect? Jargon? Morphosyntactic? Labov? Ebonics? The fifteen slides in this presentation serve to introduce terms and concepts used in the discussion of how ethnicity, age, social class, education, religion, and gender influence...
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Homophones
Pare, pair, or pear? Learners explore homophones with this dictionary skills worksheet. They look up definitions to five sets of homophones to see how words can sound the same but have completely different meanings. There are plenty of...
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Rewriting a Dialogue (removing quotes)
This is a great activity! Upper elementary learners read a dialogue-driven passage. Then, they rewrite lines of dialogue by removing the quotation marks and shifting the verb tense to past. Grammar and great writing skills all in one. An...
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Order of Adjectives: Circle the Correct One
Which comes first in an adjective phrase: a word denoting a noun's quality, or a word describing a noun's function? If your elementary grammarians don't know the answer, have them review ten pairs of adjective phrases and circle the one...
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Style
Just like you choose your clothes to ensure they fit the occasion, you should choose your words deliberately while writing. Style, the main topic of one handout in a series on writing skills, involves choosing words carefully and paying...
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ESOL Obtaining Employment
Students discuss what experience is needed for each job on a list of careers. They discuss skills needed for each job on the same list. They identify verbs in both the past and present tense associated with each skill. They work in...
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Here's an Instant Activity for February 17, 2003
Eighth graders discuss common grammatical errors made in spelling. In this spelling lesson, 8th graders examine homophones and homographs to discover the reason why they are often misused. Students create sentences using common...
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Total English
For this correcting English sentences worksheet, students grammatically correct 8 sentences, write questions and answers for 6 names and complete 7 conversations.
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Extra Word Worksheet 3
In this proofing/editing worksheet, 5th graders practice their proofing skills by reading eight sentences to find the one word that does not need to be in each sentence.
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Extra Word Worksheet 2
In this proofing/editing activity, 5th graders practice their editing skills by reading eight sentences to find the one extra word not needed in each one.
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Complete the Analogies
In this analogies skills practice worksheet, students complete 8 analogy sentences.
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Commas
In this commas worksheet, students gage their grammatical skills as they read 12 sentences that need commas and identify where each one belongs.
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Possessive Nouns
In this possessive nouns worksheet, students practice their grammatical skills as they rewrite 8 sentences using 1 of the 5 possessive pronouns provided.
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Nouns
In this nouns worksheet, students practice their grammatical skills as they read 4 sentence sets and select the sentence which names a person or an animal in the bold print. Students also complete 4 sentences with the appropriate noun.
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Select the Tense
In this verb tense instructional activity, students practice their grammatical skills as they identify the action verbs in 15 sentences and label each as present, past or future tense.
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Linking Verbs
In this linking verbs worksheet, students practice their grammatical skills as they underline the linking verbs in 10 sentences.
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Speech Marks
In this quotation marks review worksheet, students use their grammatical skills to add quotation marks where they are needed in 4 sentences and write 8 sentences that show the proper use of quotation marks.
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Direct Objects
In this grammatical skills activity, students examine 20 sentences and identify the action verbs and directs objects in each of the sentences.
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Grammar Court
Young scholars go on the lookout for grammatical errors. In this grammar lesson, students identify grammatical errors that they find in print. Young scholars share their findings with their classmates by posting them in the "grammar...