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Parts of Speech: Building Good Sentences

For Teachers 3rd
Using technology, 3rd graders will complete a reinforcement project to differentiate between nouns (common and proper), verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. Using the teacher-made template, they will create PowerPoint slides on the...
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles

For Students 6th - 8th
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a worksheet that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
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Beginning Sentence Completion 11

For Students 3rd - 4th
Help your English language learners use the appropriate verbs to complete their thoughts. Have them practice with this multiple choice worksheet. There are 12 sentences provided, and the learner has to choose the best verb (out of five...
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Renewable Energy Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students construct sentences using nouns and verbs from a "renewable energy" word bank. In this cross curriculum ecology and sentence structure grammar and mechanics lesson, students listen to the book Our Earth: Clean Energy by Peggy...
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The Last Lecture: Power Word Search

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Powerful verbs. Significant nouns. Great adjectives. Readers of The Last Lecture conduct a power vocabulary search and create a list of words drawn from the text that will be used to craft a found poem.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Personal and Possessive Pronouns (gap-fill)

For Students 5th - 10th
Practice personal and possessive pronouns by filling in the blanks. Learners are given information about different types of pronouns and can use that information to fill out the worksheet. Arrows help to clarify what information applies...
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Word Formation Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 8th
In this ESL vocabulary building worksheet, students read 10 sentences that have a missing word. Using the base word provided, students fill in the space with a noun, adverb, adjective or verb that fits the sentence.
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Learning About Prepositional Phrases

For Students 3rd - 6th
What is a prepositional phrase? Read through the first page of your packet to give your budding grammarians a better sense of what a prepositional phrase is. Then, have them complete the two activities provided. The first asks them to...
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Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...
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Latin Roots Dict, Vent, Duct: Beginning Quiz

For Students 5th - 8th
Learners fill in the blanks for 12 sentences with words derived from the Latin roots dict, vent, and duct in an interactive online quiz. A word bank provides choices from the beginning level at MyVocabulary.com. Alert quiz takers that...
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Rewriting Confusing Sentences

For Students 7th - 10th
A complete page of explanation precedes a sheet with eight confusing sentences that learners revise for clarity. You could show the first page to your class, or just use it as a guide for direct instruction on the issue of clarifying...
PPT
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Wordiness

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Refine the writing of your class members with this quick PowerPoint. Wordiness can kill effective writing, making it boring and indirect. Help your writers cut out some of the unneeded words by pairing this presentation with a piece of...
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Prepositions

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young readers practice using new vocabulary. They create clay animations that show examples of prepositions. They also create animated movies that help others learn the purpose of prepositions as well.
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Correlative Conjunction Practice

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
How much do your pupils know about correlative conjunctions? Show them the ropes and then provide this practice sheet. Start by having your class identify the subject and verb in the set of 10 sentences provided. Then they practice using...
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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography...
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Analyzing Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech launches a study of rhetorical devices such as hyperbole, allusion, metaphor, simile, personification, connotative language and parallel structure. Class members then...
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Spelling Activities

For Students 2nd - 4th
Use this list of spelling activities all year long to help your class spell each week's list of words! This list provides 12 different ways for class members to practice their spelling. Learners identify vowels, consonants, synonyms, and...
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8 Comma Rules

For Students 5th - 6th
In this comma rules learning exercise, students read 30 sentences and add commas where needed. Detailed rules for the use of commas are on the page to help.
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Writing Interesting Sentences

For Students 2nd - 6th
Help your class build their own 20-word sentences with this step-by-step guide designed to enhance sentence depth, interest, and variety in the work of young writers. They complete five basic SVO sentences using a given word bank....
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Conjunction Recognition Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
What is a coordinating conjunction, and how is it different from a correlative conjunction? First, study the three types of conjunctions. There are descriptions and examples included to help you do this. Then, release your kids for some...
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Punctuation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
As a short review of punctuation, such as the use of commas and semicolons, this presentation could be helpful in an upper elementary classroom. The series of slides defines each term and provides examples.
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Linguistic Humor and Language Play

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
By George, there are so many literary devices illustrated here! Help your pupils create interest in their writing by presenting one or two of these literary devices at a time. The slides contain examples and beg participation from the...
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Improving Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Help your class improve their writing with this handy presentation. Learners discuss how to use adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enhance their work. This is a terrific way to connect grammar to its everyday use.
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Understanding Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Go over how to read complex sentences. Learners work on identifying key ideas, examining sentence structure, looking up new vocabulary, and paraphrasing. An overview of methods to help class members read difficult texts, half of the...

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