Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University of Ottawa site overviews the parts of the sentence and then provides a list of links to the various individual parts including subject and predicate, objects and complements, noun, pronoun, phrase, clause, and a review...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan, Flotsam, written by David Wiesner, is used as a mentor text. Learners will analyze the author's use of crazy illustrations and word choices. Students will then use a game on this web site where they will click to...
Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Parts of Speech in Sentences: The Order of Operations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this comprehensiv learning module students identify the parts of speech by following a certain order until each word in a sentence is labeled. In a variety of exercises, learners practice finding verbs, prepositional phrases,...
Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th
Come and learn about all types of conjunctions when you visit this educational resource. This site gives a clear definition of the function of a conjunction. Use the "Turn the Page," function to learn more.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writer's Complex: Grammar Interactive Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has an index to interactive exercises testing knowledge of various types of grammar. Some categories offer basic and advanced exercises. Answers are explained.
Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

Hyper Grammar: The Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial site offers a thorough discussion of the various parts of speech.
Unit Plan
Other

Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
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Other

Kryss Tal: Grammar: Introduction to Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very good overview of grammar components. Grammar examples and links are provided.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 3: Unit 4: Los Paises Y Las Nacionalidades

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students learn how to talk about familiar people and places, actions taking place now, stereotypes, and weather. They will practice using the preterit and imperfect, irregular verbs, articles with adjectives as...
Handout
Other

Using English: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive A-Z index of grammar terms with explanations and examples. Each entry provides links to activities and other resources available on the site for more practice on that aspect of grammar. Suggested activities are often...
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Indirect Object

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an indirect object in the context of a sentence.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Parts of Speech

For Students K - 1st Standards
Find the fool's gold by clicking and dragging the correct parts of speech into the box below the mine cars. Good luck!
Handout
Other

Blue Book: Hyphens

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation contains seven rules for correctly using the hyphen, along with examples for each of the rules.