Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Story Add Ons
This is a technology-rich lesson plan which allows students to explore proper language conventions while utilizing portable keyboards for word processing.
City University of New York
Cuny Write Site: Grammar and Style
This section of the WriteSite includes answers to some common grammatical questions, exercises to help you gain the knowledge to answer them yourself, and information about a program that can show you what kind of errors give you the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences
An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Punctuation Quiz [Pdf]
Demonstrate your knowledge of proper punctuation by taking this PDF file quiz. Links are provided to allow you to enlarge your quiz to full screen, view the quiz in a different format, review punctuation rules, and enjoy a fun,...
English Plus+
English Plus: Subordinating Conjunction
A simple explanation of subordinating conjunctions with examples. The page includes a list of common subordinating conjunctions.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Building a Setting
This mini-workshop provides step-by step instructions to help learners build a great setting for their stories. Press the instructions button when ready to begin.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About
In this mini-workshop, students are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Periods, Question Marks & Exclamation Marks
Focus students' understanding of punctuation with this language arts skill-building site. Explore the usage of periods, questions marks and exclamation marks through this interactive activity that ask students to read a sentence and...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Finding Fragments in Short Passages
Twenty short passages each containing one sentence fragment which students are asked to choose. Feedback for each answer is given along with the option of reading an explanation of why the answer is correct or incorrect. Passages and a...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar Subordinating Conjunctions
An explanation of subordinating conjunctions with examples and example sentences. A chart showing their role in dependent clauses is also provided.
Other
Parts of Speech Quiz
"Decide what parts of speech should be used to fill out the blanks. Created by John Wong." Fairly simple quiz.
Other
Sna English: Subordinating Conjunctions [Pdf]
A two-page learning exercise which asks students to identify the subordinating conjunctions in sentences, then complete sentences by adding appropriate subordinating conjunctions. [PDF]
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.
English Zone
English Zone: Verb and Preposition Combinations D
In this self-scoring practice activity, students use the drop-down menu to select the correct preposition or verb to fit the blank in the sentence.
Quia
Quia: Parts of Speech Games
Four interactive games for reinforcing the eight parts of speech. Created by a 6th grade teacher.
Quia
Quia: Homonyms
The point of this interactive exercise is to distinguish among coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, and interjections.
Quia
Quia: Math Rounding Fractions
An interactive exercise where students read two sentences and then choose the conjunction that would best join them together. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and score is kept throughout the exercise.
Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Circling Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Writing Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and practice writing and punctuating sentences that contain interjections.
Other
Old Dominion University: Correlative Conjunctions
Learn about correlative conjunctions and see how they are used properly within example sentences.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: 3rd Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]
A series of four checklists, one for each nine weeks, designed to track third graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
Ministerio De Educaciony Ciencia: Analizador Morfosintactico
This is an interactive activity to review grammar and analyze sentences.
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Review 4
Notice spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage errors in the underlined portion of twenty-five sentences, and choose the answer that corrects any mistakes. A percentage score is kept throughout the exercise and displayed at the...
IQ Site
Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 3
A twenty-five question exercise where students choose the answer that corrects all spelling, capitalization, usage, and punctuation errors in the underlined portion of each sentence. The student's score is kept along the way and...