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Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?
What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow students to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.
Able Media
Classics Technology Center: Online Latin Drills
Designed to coordinate with the Oxford Latin Course, these comprehensive drills will help any student practice a variety of skills. Each chapter has at least 2 exercises. However, the drills for volume 3 don't appear to work all the time.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Demonstrative Adjectives
Online exercises with demonstrative adjectives and brilliant photos to help in answering the fill-in-the blanks.
Other
Ef Education First: English Grammar: Adjectives
This English grammar resource provides a detailed survey of adjectives that focuses on their form and function as well as providing numerous examples.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems
In this lesson, Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur Mentor, Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli, and Henry & The Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall are used as mentor texts. Students will practice their acrostic skills on the tail...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous & Interesting Story Titles
In this lesson, The Paper Bag Princess, a book written by Robert Munsch, is used as a mentor text. Students will reflect on how nouns can sometimes be used as interesting adjectives. Students will collect these ideas in their notebooks...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations
In this lesson plan, Flotsam, written by David Wiesner, is used as a mentor text. Students will analyze the author's use of crazy illustrations and word choices. Students will then use a game on this web site where they will click to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Airplane Flight Sentences
In this lesson, Robert Burleigh's picture book entitled Flight is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences
In this lesson, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "B" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "B" words...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "J" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "J"...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter P
In this lesson, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, and nouns that begin with the letter "P" in them. Students will continue to generate letter "P" words...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Order
Information and examples of how to make order adjectives within a sentence.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom
Site contains a narrative and three lesson plans. These plans are designed to assist students with various aspects of poetry. This site discusses strategies which enable students to effectively, memorize, recite, and correctly pronounce...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Adjective Game for Kids
Students use this writing prompt generator to choose a writing topic and three adjectives to use in an original piece.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Adjectives and Adverbs
A quiz to assess student understanding of adjectives and adverbs is included on this site.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Word Literacy: Adjective Detective
A collection of animated lessons on adjectives, followed by a simple quiz and detective game. comparative describing superlative
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Wrong Participle
An explanation with examples of using participles correctly in sentences.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Adjective and Preposition Combinations
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides examples of adjective placement in relation to prepositions.