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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Articles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains what articles are including the definite article "the" and the indefinite articles "a" and "an" and provides examples of their use and exceptions for the use of "a" and "an". It explains the rules for the uses of...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Sometime, Sometimes, and Some Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using the words "sometime," "sometimes," and "some time" correctly in sentences.
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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.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Vivid Verbs W.5.3.d

For Teachers 5th Standards
This lesson engages students in analyzing word choices. Students will write descriptive paragraphs about interesting magazine pictures and ensure that they are using vivid words in their writings.
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Lesson Plan
Education Development Center

Education Development Center: Tv411: Parts of a Newspaper

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learners click through a lesson about the parts of a newspaper and answer questions about the types of articles found in each section, headlines, and captions that would go with photographs. Links to related videos are also provided.
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Handout
University of North Carolina

Articles: The Writing Center

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is an article? Explore the world of articles when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers can brush up on their knowledge of these tiny but important words.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Special Nouns Practice

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
In this practice execise, students will identify nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.
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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Subject Verb Agreement Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 20-question exercise/quiz matching subjects and verbs in number.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Special Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students review abstract nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: How to Use "Alike" and "Same" Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using the words "alike" and "same" correctly in sentences.
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Article
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Adjectives and Adverbs What's the Difference?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This blog article focuses on adjectives and adverbs including their purpose and the confusion between them. It offers links pertaining to adjective and adverb use and misuse.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 1: Their, There, and They're

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Complete these 20 sentences by choosing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
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Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 2: Their, There, and They're

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Complete these 20 sentences by typing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Notorious Confusables

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This 12 question quiz covers commonly confused words such as than/then, it's/its, and whether/weather. Links are provided to more quizzes and the "Guide to Grammar and Writing."
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this site, Jack Lynch sets forth many guidelines for writing good paragraphs, from length, to specific word choice, to proofreading, to voice, to punctuation. Links are provided to help the student seeking additional clarification.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Are You Down With Describing Nouns?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit is a fun, exciting, and engaging unit that uses many 21st century tools to help students working in collaborative groups understand what an adjective is and how adjective use is vital to making writing interesting. Furthermore,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: We're in a Pickle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A hands-on lesson in which children work together to discover adjectives, write a descriptive paragraph, and apply math principles to produce a bar graph interpreting results from the lesson.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Choosing Between Definite and in Definite Articles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn when to use 'a,' 'an,' and 'the.'
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Meet the Article

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Identify articles and the words they describe.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Subject

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Clear information about sentence subject, including definition, explanation of how to find subject, distinction between complete subject and simple subject, and other helpful points.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Subject Verb Agreement Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers five interactive subject-verb agreement exercises with accompanying printable handouts.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Students type a sentence for each of twenty different plural words. When finished, they can create a PDF of their sentences and print them out to share.