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Match the Memory: Formal vs Informal Language
Match the Memory Interactive game where players match a word to either formal or informal language.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Special Nouns Practice
In this practice execise, students will identify nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.2.d Worksheets: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 4 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.D: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.2c: Link Ideas Within Categories of Information
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2c: Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., example, also, because).
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.4.6: Differentiate Between Formal and Informal English Contexts
Links to 6 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.6: Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.4.1c: Pose an Respond to Specific Questions
Links to 60 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.1c: Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.4.6: Acquire and Use Grade Appropriate Words and Phrases
Links to 10 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.4.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions,...
Other
Ef Education First: English Grammar: Relative Adverbs
Information and examples about relative adverbs and how they are used to introduce relative clauses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Prepositional Phrases
Prepositions indicate the location of a thing to another thing across time or space. Prepositional phrases contain a preposition and its object. [0:44]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Prepositions
Prepositions indicate locations, whether physical or in time. Around, in, outside, before, during. Prepositions help us know the when and where! [0:48]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Avoid Inappropriate Shifts
Watch out for inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person! A shift is when there is a disparity between the perspectives, from first person, second person, and third person. It is important to maintain perspectives when referring...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Relative Adverbs
A relative adverb is a word that talks about a place, time, or reason for something. Remember the three "w's": where, when, and why. [0:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Common Expressions: Medium
Can you spot the correct prepositions to use in these conventional expressions?
English Zone
English Zone: Verb and Preposition Combinations
With this 10 question multiple choice practice quiz, students select a preposition to fill in the blank and get a score based on their responses.
English Zone
English Zone: Verb and Preposition Combinations B
After reading a sentence, students use the drop-down menu to select the correct preposition to fill the blank in the sentence. This practice exercise gives a score upon completion.
Quia
Quia: Homonyms
The point of this interactive exercise is to distinguish among coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, and interjections.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Adverbs: Adverb Position
Information and examples demonstrating where adverbs can be positioned in a sentence.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Adverbs: Adverbs of Place List
An explanation of adverbs of place followed by a list of single-word adverbs that tell the place in which something happens.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Adverbs: Adverbs of Time List
An explanation of adverbs of time followed by a list of single-word adverbs that tell the time in which something happens.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Preposition
Links to information about prepositions including: What is a preposition, preposition list, a simple rule for prepositions, prepositions of place, and propositions of time.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Preposition Rule
A rule about prepositions and prepositional phrases. Examples are provided.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Prepositions of Place
A graphic and example sentences to demonstrate how some prepositions show position or place.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Prepositions of Time: At, In, On
Information and examples of using the prepositions "at," "in," and "on" to indicate time.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Conjunctions: Coordinating Conjunctions
An explanation of coordinating conjunctions with examples and example sentence. A chart with the FANBOYS acronym for remembering coordinating conjunctions is also provided.