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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar Collection

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
In this No Nonsense Grammar Collection, students explore a range of commonly taught grammar principles for elementary and middle schoolers with these short, fun videos and activities. From the difference between dependent and independent...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about editing strategies in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Spelling Spectacularly, Capitalizing Confidently, Punctuating Perfectly, and Putting It All Together.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle throughout the story and as...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about grammar in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Read Aloud, Subject-Verb Agreement, More Subject-Verb Agreement, Troublesome...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plague Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"Avoid problems created by these words or phrases." Examples: And also, As to Whether, and lots more.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is prepared by Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College, this extremely thorough site breaks down its discussion into categories of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Focuses most...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Verbs and Verbals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource is a grammar primer page that focuses on verbs and verbals. It provides information and practice for verb tenses, verb forms, active and passive voice, and much more. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes, L.11-12.4b...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Future Time a Survey

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples of simple present, simple future, future perfect, present continuous, future continuous, to be going to, future perfect continuous, and some added notes.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: First, Second, and Third Conditional

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar lesson that teaches the first, second, and third conditional verb forms. Examples provided.
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer Glossary: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a basic definition of prepositions, along with a chart of the most common ones. Some of the prepositions listed serve as a hypertext link to more detailed information on that specific word.
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Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers a good definition and numerous examples of coordinating conjunctions. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions,...
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Handout
City University of New York

Writesite: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar and writing tutorial defines clause, independent clause, and dependent clause and provides exercises.
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Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Rules for Comma Usage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here's a site from the Capital Community College to show the correct and incorrect way to use or not use commas.
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Article
TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Passive Grammar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a short article that makes good points about the passive voice, with examples in Bulgarian and English.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Paragraph Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Punctuation Between 2 Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is the correct punctuation between two independent clauses? Use this site to learn more about the rules to follow.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Compound Words

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this extensive website focused on compound words. Find out how they are used in writing. Don't miss out on this informative site.
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Handout
Indiana University

Juan M. Soto: Reglas Preterite and Imperfect

For Students 9th - 10th
Concise, but thorough English explanation of the preterite and imperfect tenses in Spanish grammar. Great review for advanced students or teachers who want a quick review. Links are also available to interactive exercises and sheets that...