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Other

Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
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Organization for Community Networks

Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Able Media

Classics Technology Center: Online Latin Drills

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Demonstrative Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exercises with demonstrative adjectives and brilliant photos to help in answering the fill-in-the blanks.
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Handout
Other

Ef Education First: English Grammar: Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This English grammar resource provides a detailed survey of adjectives that focuses on their form and function as well as providing numerous examples.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tail Acrostic Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous & Interesting Story Titles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Interactive
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Airplane Flight Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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....
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter B

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter J

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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"...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter P

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Order

For Students 6th - 9th
Information and examples of how to make order adjectives within a sentence.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Poetry for the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Interactive
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Adjective Game for Kids

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students use this writing prompt generator to choose a writing topic and three adjectives to use in an original piece.
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Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A quiz to assess student understanding of adjectives and adverbs is included on this site.
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Graphic
Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
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Interactive
University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Word Literacy: Adjective Detective

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A collection of animated lessons on adjectives, followed by a simple quiz and detective game. comparative describing superlative
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Wrong Participle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using participles correctly in sentences.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Common Adjective and Preposition Combinations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides examples of adjective placement in relation to prepositions.