Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences Power Point
This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Fragments and Types of Sentences
Ten questions asking students to identify the difference between complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing Prepositions
This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Language: Conventions: Relative Adverbs
Notes and examples explaining relative adverbs and how they are used in sentences. Includes practice worksheet.
University of South Florida
University of South Florida: Fcat Express: Author's Purpose Activity
Practice identifying author's purpose by recognizing the purpose in titles, understanding the difference between fact and opinion, and identifying the purpose of various forms of writing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this lesson plan, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Places to Love: Thoughtful Prepositional Phrases
In this lesson students learn to write meaningful prepositional phrases in order to evoke thoughtful word choice.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Fragments in Short Passages
Practice sentence skills by choosing the sentence fragment in each of 20 passage.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Subordinating Conjunctions [Pdf]
To review subordinating conjunctions, you'll find a list of common subordinating conjunctions and two exercises in which students practice their understanding. [PDF]
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 3 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with map directions. Level 3 adjectives and adverbs are also emphasized on this assessment.
Other
Pearson Education: Declarative and Interrogative Sentences [Pdf]
Here is a set of worksheets on identifying and using declarative and interrogative sentences.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
Contains plans for a game that helps teach technical reading and writing while reviewing a novel that students have read. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Camping Sentences
In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. When I Go Camping with Grandma, a book by Marion Dane Bauer, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
Other
Rhl School: English Basics: Real Sentences
How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? This resource features examples of complete and incomplete sentences that students can identify and fix.
Other
Tutorial World: Basic Reading Worksheets for Grade 5
This is a site for teachers looking for worksheets for fifth-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students how to make and present strong persuasive speeches. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment...
TES Global
Blendspace: Cause and Effect
This eleven-part Blendspace is designed to be used while teaching students how to analyze cause and effect. Links include reference sheets, a SMART Notebook Lesson, posters, practice worksheets, and guided practice opportunities.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word? Sentences
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students must match each word to a sentence to complete its meaning. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
TES Global
Blendspace: Opinion/persuasive Writing 3rd Grade
A collection of resources that includes videos, images, activities, and graphic organizers to use while learning to write opinion and persuasive pieces.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.