Sophia: All About Modifiers

Boost language skills with a unit all about feelings. Scholars from all grade levels take part in several lessons that incorporate specific vocabulary terms and adjectives while discussing their feelings with their peers. Reading...

Class groups investigate the economic and political implications of a country's policies on genetically modified foods, craft a position paper detailing that policy, and share their findings with the class. Armed with this...

Misplaced modifiers are a common grammar error, but can your learners identify when a modifier can interfere with a reader's understanding? Watch a short and entertaining video from Ted Ed that illustrates misplaced modifiers, as well as...

Click through two slide shows explaining what modifiers, dangling modifiers, and misplaced modifiers are and how to correct them. Then watch a video [1:19] on dangling modifiers and a second video [5:13] showing a funny scenario of using...

This tutorial focuses on modifiers using three slideshows: modifiers, dangling modifiers, and misplaced modifiers and printed information about adjectives and adverbs. Each slideshow defines the term, gives examples, and provides...

This slideshow lesson focuses on modifiers; it defines them and offers things to remember about them. It also provides three sentences for student practice in identifying them followed by answers and explanations.

For this grammar worksheet, learners read 10 sentences that all contain modifiers. If the modifiers are not in the correct position, students re-write the sentences.

This lesson focuses on adjectives and the rules for changing them to comparative and superlative forms. It offers textual information about adjectives and practice adding them to sentences. It also provides two YouTube videos: the first...

This tutorial focuses on reflection papers; it defines them, provides common components and purpose, it offers ways to get at your feelings and organize your paper in a slideshow, and offers information about putting it all together and...

This tutorial video focuses on affixes; it defines all the associated terms, explains how affixes affect the meaning of words, gives examples, and ends with a rap music clip about prefixes, suffixes, and root words. [6:10]