Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Publishing: A Persuasive Essay

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Verb and Adverb Connection

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.
Article
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
Handout
University College London

University College London: Attributive and Predicative Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
This University College London site provides an advanced grammar lesson on adjectives (attributive, postpositive, and predicate adjectives), and includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
Interactive
Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Identifying Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students identify adjective in sentences by clicking on them; these include predicate adjectives.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Adjective and Verb Placement

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This page focuses on the relationships between adjectives and verbs including predicate adjectives, linking verbs, and participles --verbs used as adjectives such as the smiling baby.
eBook
Quia

Quia: Ordering the Planets (Quiz)

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
In this adjective practice activity, students read a sentence and locate the correct adjective or predicate adjective in the sentence using a drop-down menu.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Romanticism: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on parts of a sentence including simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, subject compliments, and complements. It also provides examples of each and a...
Handout
Other

Sil: Glossary of Linguistic Terms: Predicate Noun

For Students 9th - 10th
This site briefly defines the predicate noun, provides an example, and lists several sources.
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.
Unit Plan
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Subject Complement

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subject pronoun in the context of a sentence.