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Teaching and Learning Through Objects
Students identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and...
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Language Arts and Careers
Fourth graders discuss the importance of grammar skills in job interviews. They role-play employers and prospective employees in a mock job interview. They discuss good and bad grammar that was used and outcomes that could come from...
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Dangling Modifiers
Students identify misplaced and dangling modifiers and correct these errors in their writing. They create illustrations to match the misplace and dangling modifiers.
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Diagramming Sentences
Show this presentation to demonstrate how to diagram sentences. Meant for more advanced grammarians who know the difference between indirect and direct objects, this PowerPoint adds on new elements to each slide. The graphics and sound...
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The Pronoun as Subject
Follow-up a lesson on nominative and predicate pronouns with a worksheet that provides practice for your young grammarians. Although the worksheet begins with definitions and examples, the explanations might confuse some of your learners...
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Comma Comments
Upper elementary and middle schoolers, in pairs, use PowerPoint to link a button to every comma within a piece of writing. The button links to a slide explaining why the comma was used. They present their slides to the class.
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Comparative and Superlative Adjective
Class members practice using the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives here. A word bank of nine words is the source for choices with which to complete 10 sentences using the comparative or superlative as appropriate. Bad and...
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Avoiding Run-ons
There are a few different ways to avoid run-on sentences. This worksheet focuses on using conjunctions (and, but, etc.) to correct run-on sentences. There are 10 questions for your youngsters to work with.
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Present Tense - Negation 4
Learners negate sentences. They read the first statement then choose a present tense negation such as, doesn't, don't, or isn't to complete the associated sentence. There are 15 sentences sets to complete.
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Dissatisfied Customer
Learners complete a conversation between Bob and a car dealer to practice using proper verb tenses. There are 15 fill-in-the-blank sentences where learners use the proper tense of the provided verb. This in an online quiz and answers can...
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Reported Speech 7
For this online grammar worksheet, students read the example quotations and write a statement sentence reporting what was said. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Apostrophes and Contractions
Learners study the pairs of words and then their matching contraction. They study 23 words. A good resource to help children understand how to properly make and use contractions.
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Past Tense 1
Nothing says past tense like the Ice Age. Learners fill in the blanks for each of 10 sentences with the proper past tense verb. Each sentence focuses on information related to dinosaurs or Ice Age animals.
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Using -er and -est When Comparing Words
The focus of this language arts presentation is on when to use 'er' versus 'est' when comparing words. Students view a series of three pictures per slide, and attempt to use the word endings correctly. For example: strong, stronger,...
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Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
Students analyze English by completing a handout regarding grammar rules. In this verb lesson, students identify what a verb does, where to use it in a sentence and what a verb fragment is. Students complete a worksheet based on subject...
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Frindle
Prior knowledge will be activiated in learners through this slide show. Frindle by Andrew Clements is reviewed by showing information about the plot, and characters. Definitions for 8 words and 12 guided reading questions based on the...
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Understanding Adjective Clauses: Lesson 14
This PowerPoint features information about adverb and adjective clauses. Several examples of sentences that include adjective clauses are provided along with explanations of their functions in the sentences. Some slides contain practice...
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Assignment .11 Sentence Construction
In this sentence structure worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions that require them to follow the the provided instructions to create original sentences with the listed parts of speech.
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Compound Sentence
In this sentence structure learning exercise, students review a definition and examples of compound sentences prior to responding to 10 questions that require them to label the parts of compound sentences.
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Direct Objects
In this grammatical skills worksheet, students examine 20 sentences and identify the action verbs and directs objects in each of the sentences.
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Nouns Used as Direct Objects
In this nouns worksheet, students underline verbs that show action and circle the direct object that gets that action. Students complete this for 10 sentences.
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Have and Have Got
In this have and have got worksheet, students choose either the word have or have got to make the sentence correct and then correct sentences that are wrong. Students complete 6 sets of problems.
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The Correct Use of the Articles "A" and "An"
Students discover the grammatical rules regarding articles. In this grammar lesson, students study the rule regarding the use of "a" and "an" in writing. Students are encouraged to discover the rule on their own and apply the rule while...
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Language Practice: Present Perfect
In this present perfect worksheet, students fill in the blanks, correct sentences, answer questions, and more. Students complete 4 activities.