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Choosing the Correct Verb
For this grammar worksheet, students review all different types of verbs and then circle the appropriate verb in twelve sentences. Students check to make sure that each sentence is grammatically correct.
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Predicate Adjective Worksheet
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and underline the predicate adjective in the 20 sentences. Students also underline the linking verbs in another set of 20 sentences.
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Future tense
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They read a story that is written in past tense and discuss how to change it to future tense. Students transform a news story from past to future tense.
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Choosing the Correct Verb
In this grammar worksheet, students circle the action verb in fifteen sentences and circle the appropriate linking verbs in nine additional sentences.
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What's in a Sentence? Getting to Know the Parts of Speech
What a kick! After examining the definitions and looking at examples of the different parts of speech, partners work together on a retelling of a famous nursery rhyme. For each sentence, they must select a word that matches the part of...
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Tears of Joy Theatre Presents Anansi the Spider
Accompany the African folktale, Anansi the Spider, with a collection of five lessons, each equipped with supplemental activities. Lessons offer multidisciplinary reinforcement in English language arts, social studies, science,...
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Singular--Plural Agreement
In this grammar learning exercise, students read a paragraph and fill in the blank spaces with the helping/linking verbs is or are. Students share their responses with their classmates.
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Choosing the Correct Verb
In this grammar activity, students choose the appropriate helping/linking verb to complete twenty sentences grammatically correct.
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English Grammar: Parts of Speech
A good overview of the basic parts of speech, this presentation is ideal for a junior high class that likes flashy animation and bright colors. The concepts are complete, but simple enough to lend well to lecture notes. Use the slide...
Pimsleur
The Weather
What's it like out today, and what do you plan to wear? These are the two main topics for this Italian instructional activity. By the end of the plan, pupils should have a grasp of basic weather and clothing terms as well as a general...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Practice Book: The Boy Who Saved Baseball
An array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...
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Prefixes and Suffixes
Use this interactive tool to introduce your learners to prefixes and suffixes. First they use a crossword puzzle to find the opposites of the words provided. Then, they take a list of words and possible suffixes, matching the appropriate...
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Colons, Semicolons, and Dashes
Colons, semi-colons, and dashes are three of the most misused punctuation marks! This learning exercise allows learners to better understand when it's appropriate to use each one, and gives them some practice in doing so. There are six...
University of North Carolina
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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Good and Well
In this good and well usage worksheet, students read for information and determine comprehension. In this fill in the blanks worksheet, students complete twenty-three sentences.
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Borrowing Narrative Skills from Mr. Fletcher: Using a "Prompts in Reverse" Technique to Inspire Your Writers
Help your class find their writing voices with this lesson which uses the work of Ralph Fletcher to guide a "Prompt in Reverse" activity. Using the chapter "First Pen" from Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams, learners decipher what they...
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Should and Must
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sets of sentences utilizing the helping/linking/auxiliary verbs should and must. Students share their sentences with their classmates.
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Past Tense
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They transform a text from future to past tense. Students read a story and discover it is written in past tense. In groups, students rewrite the verbs in the text to...
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Introducing Nouns and Verbs
Second graders accurately identify nouns and verbs in sentences. In this nouns and verbs lesson, 2nd graders sing a jingle to help them identify characteristics of nouns and verbs. Students classify pictures in the proper category and...
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Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in twenty-four blanks with the correct form of the verb to be in the past tense using either was or were.
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Subject/Verb Agreement
In this subject/verb agreement worksheet, learners select the correct verb to complete sentences. Students may check answers by clicking on a "button."
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Improve Writing
Help your young writers improve their writing skills by showing this great PowerPoint. It includes various tips to improve writing: varying sentence length, beginning with a verb, and lots more! This is a wonderful presentation to show...
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read...
PBS
Think Like a Historian: A Viewing Guide
Calling all junior detectives! Scholars use the tools of investigation to determine the causes and impacts of the American Civil War. Using viewing guides, videos, group research, and written resources, they discover what it takes to...