Santa Ana Unified School District
The Giver
Wouldn't it be great to live an a community without pain, without danger? Such a society is the goal of the community in The Giver. Using Lois Lowry's dystopian novel as the core text, class members read primary source materials about...
K20 LEARN
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Conditional Statements
If, then, Else is not only a basic programming language command, it is also the basis for conditional statements used in writing. Middle schoolers try to craft conditional statements with a card sort activity and then collaborate on a...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: Single Draft Narrative
Put it in your own words. Scholars work independently on their mid-unit assessments by responding to a writing prompt. They write about Miné Okubo’s life and the moments when Okubo became visible again.
Worksheet Web
Interrogatives and Auxiliary Verbs
Interrogatives—who, what, where, when, why, and how—are the focus of a grammar worksheet that reinforces writing questions and using auxiliary verbs.
Curriculum Corner
8th Grade ELA "I Can" Statement Posters
Eighth grades can master the ELA Common Core standards! Show your learners the connection between classroom activities and assignments and the standards with this set of "I Can" statement posters. Each standard has been rewritten as an...
Curriculum Corner
8th Grade ELA Common Core Checklists
How close are your eighth graders to mastering the ELA Common Core standards? Keep an eye on progress with these charts, which include every eighth grade identifier and full standard text. As you move through the year and teach, reteach,...
K12 Reader
Special Singular Pronouns
As everybody knows, pronouns must match their antecedents. Except for those special ones like everybody, neither, one and several others. These exceptions are the focus of a short worksheet that first models the irregularities and then...
K12 Reader
Pronoun Agreement: Spot the Error
Young grammarians locate pronoun agreement errors, in number, gender, and/or person, in a series of sentences, and then re-write the sentences correcting the errors.
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Present Continuous, Imperatives
What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities.
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Imperative Sentences, Future Progressive Tense
Finish your homework! Kids work on imperative sentences with a grammar worksheet, which also focuses on future progressive tense (going to). After they use a word bank to write instructions for a person going on a trip, they fill in the...
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Imperatives and Going To
Study the future progressive tense and other ways to express what will (or won't) happen. After completing affirmative and negative sentences in the imperative form, kids work on different exercises with going to and will or won't.
Curated OER
Verbal Moodswings
Finally, a handout that accurately describes the difference between indicative, imperative, and subjunctive verb tenses! Complete with sentences, examples, and even some humor. Never be confused again!
K12 Reader
Pronouns as Indirect Objects
Pronouns used as indirect objects are the focus of this short worksheet that asks learners to fill in the correct pronoun.
Curated OER
Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
Curated OER
First Conditional Verbs
Helpful as a print-out or electronic instructional activity, this verb tense instructional activity prompts middle and high schoolers to fill in 20 missing first conditional verbs in sentences. They can check their answers and receive...
Curated OER
Verb Forms: Second Conditional
Which verb tenses can you use when writing with the conditional tense? Clear up the common mistakes with this second conditional worksheet. Young writers choose the correct verb tense to complete a sentence. They choose from four...
Curated OER
Conditional Tenses (Part 2)
What is the conditional tense? English language learners choose one of three multiple choice options to complete a sentence in the conditional tense. There are 10 questions, and an answer sheet is provided.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Identifying Tenses
In this 10 question quiz, students match names of English tenses in one column with sentences that contain those verb tenses (written in all capital letters) in another column by typing the number of the sentence in the boxes provided.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs)
Students type the past tense of verbs in parentheses into the boxes provided throughout the paragraph and then check answers.
English Page
Englishpage.com: Future Conditional Verbs
This tutorial covers future conditional verb forms and their use with examples and exercise link.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Future: Forms 1
Students read the dialogue and select the best verb form to fit into the sentence provided. There are 10 questions.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Conditional Verb Forms
Grammar lesson that teaches the conditional verb forms. Includes examples, quizzes, and related links.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs
This practice quiz asks students to type the simple past tense of given regular and irregular verbs into boxes provided throughout a paragraph.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about gerunds, participles, and infinitives in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Using Gerunds and Gerund Phrases, Using Participles...