Curated OER
Developing Students' Vocabulary Range for Describing People
Middle schoolers develop vocabulary for describing people.
Curated OER
Four Year Plan Essay
Learners complete a personal vision, a four year plan essay, meant to stimulate their thinking process. They set a foundation for what they hope to strive for in the next four years to come.
Curated OER
Supporting Ideas Activity
In this supporting ideas worksheet, students read short passages, then choose the word in a pair that correctly completes a related supporting idea. One example is completed for students.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
A helping and modal auxiliary verb site from the Capital Community College. Use this site as a reference tool when learning about modal auxiliary verbs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Auxiliary (Helping) Verbs
Is the underlined verb the main verb in the sentence, or is it helping the main verb?
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Classification
Explanations and examples of helping verbs and main verbs with a link to additional information about helping verbs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Modal auxiliary verbs indicate expressions of belief, attitudes, likelihood, permission, or obligation. They inform the function of the main verb, and color the verb on a scale ranging from possibility to necessity. Video (0:47)
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Verb Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a verb phrase in the context of a sentence.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Verb Forms
Explanations and examples of verb forms with links to additional information on tenses, forms of main verbs, forms of helping verbs, and a main verb forms quiz.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Verbs of Doubt
A Spanish word bank of verbs of doubt is used to complete Spanish translations of the main clause. The student practices conjugating these verbs in the present indicative tense. Answers may be checked and corrected. The present...