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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Building Blocks of Language: The Eight Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the 8 parts of speech and how they function in sentences. It offers a YouTube video of students rapping the 8 parts of speech, a slide show of the 8 parts of speech, examples, and how they function in sentences,...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language: Unnecessay Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on identifying unnecessary modifiers and removing them from your writing. Rule of thumb: if the adjective does not tell the reader something the noun absolutely cannot, eliminate it. It provides student...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on modifiers; it defines them and offers things to remember about them. It also provides three sentences for student practice in identifying them followed by answers and explanations.
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial provides a slideshow focusing on modifiers; it defines them, explains dangling and misplaced modifiers, gives examples, and tells how to prevent them. There is also a short automated slideshow of a practice example and its...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on modifiers using three slideshows: modifiers, dangling modifiers, and misplaced modifiers and printed information about adjectives and adverbs. Each slideshow defines the term, gives examples, and provides...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint covering the 8 parts of speech. It is followed by a mnemonic poem to remember the 8 parts of speech. Then nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections each have a separate video...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Parts of Speech Game: Word Invasion

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Brush up your ability to identify parts of speech with an interactive game. Select at least two parts of speech and the speed you think you can handle for the game and click your mouse on the jellyfish words that match the part of speech...
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Lesson Plan
Crayola

Crayola All About Adjectives and Alliteration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan (for learners age 4 and up) from the Crayola website, incorporates phonics, adjectives, and visual arts. Students make "Rubbings," with crayons while discovering adjectives that begin with the same letter. Provides...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs 5

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs. After looking at the similarities between them, it discusses each individually including their purpose, location, the questions they answer, and examples for each.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tell Me About It

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners will be able to describe familiar items and with prompting and support provide additional details by making Flubber. Making Flubber encourages students to engage in descriptive dialogue which helps develop the ability to provide...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Guess My Solid

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Descriptive details are used as learners develop a guessing game poster for others to try and guess their chosen solid. Included in this detailed lesson plan are videos, samples of student work, a printable worksheet, an assessment...
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Other

Abrams Books: Picture Day Perfection: A Common Core State Standards Aligned

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This activity and discussion guide uses the book "Picture Day Perfect" to teach multiple common core state standards for language arts. Included in this lesson are discussion questions, a craft project, printable worksheets, and an...
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: A Chilly Feeling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading activity, the students will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses,...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Awe Inspiring, Extraordinary, Erudite Kids

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using complex language, including rich descriptors, is necessary for mastery of the CCSS Standards. This lesson is a great lesson in using adjectives to enrich speaking and writing. Included are a video demonstration and printable...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Who's at the Door? Use Images to Find Out!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young scholars will use words acquired through reading to describe images (with adjectives) that demonstrate an understanding of characters in a story. The teacher will read Miss Nelson is Back which has great descriptors and will hold a...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Identifying Real Life Connections Between Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Capital Community College Foundation provides all the different parts of speech and their definitions. It also shows word functions and their use.
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Activity
University of Texas at Austin

Tex's French Grammar: Irregular Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, from Tex's French Grammar, is an excellent site which has a clear, concise explanation of adjectives that are irregular for gender or in forming plurals (doux/douce, faux.fausse, etc.). It provides examples and interactive...
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Adverbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar site sponsored by University College London features an entire lesson on adverbs and an exercise to test your knowledge.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University College London site features an extended grammar lesson on adjectives and their use. Includes an exercise to test your knowledge.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Attributive and Predicative Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
This University College London site provides an advanced grammar lesson on adjectives (attributive, postpositive, and predicate adjectives), and includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Inherent Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Grammar survey of inherent and non-inherent adjectives and stative and dynamic adjectives with examples.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Nominal Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial site provides a detailed lesson on the purpose and use of nominal adjectives. Includes examples.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University College London has some good, basic information on verbs. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.