BW Walch
Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
Curated OER
Parsing Worksheet for The Death of Laocoon
Latin learners will complete this parsing worksheet for The Death of Laocoon. With the word provided on the left, learners will identify the part of speech, the word it derives from, and other basic information to demonstrate...
Curated OER
The Direct Object
What exactly is a direct object? Use this resource to introduce direct objects to your middle and early high school classrooms. The section at the top explains the part of speech, and then there are 20 sentences below for learners to...
EngageNY
Studying Conflicting Information: Varying Perspectives on the Pearl Harbor Attack, Part 1
Scholars read President Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech and analyze the speech's words using close reading guides. Readers determine Roosevelt's point of view after reading the speech and filling in the guides.
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: Analyzing Author’s Purpose in Speech and Text
Part one of a mid-unit assessment relating to The Omnivore’s Dilemma includes listening to and analyzing a speech by Birke Baehr. Part two involves analyzing an excerpt from the text. The assessment ends with short response questions.
Curated OER
Idioms Quiz: Anatomy-Based Expressions
An online worksheet provides opportunities to assess comprehension of 10 common adages based on anatomy vocabulary. Learners complete a multiple choice quiz (and can check answers with a single click) about the meaning of common...
Florida State College
Parts of Speech
Although designed for a college-level writing lab, this worksheet provides excellent practice for all learners in identifying and using the parts of speech.
Curated OER
Beginning Paragraph Correction #8
Readers answer 8 multiple choice questions by selecting the correct revisions to the paragraph provided. The focus is on prepositions, syntax, and parts of speech. A good, quick exercise for ELL classes or review for middle schoolers.
Curated OER
ASL Lesson 8
Another awesome ASL activity! Teach ASL to a special ed class, hearing impaired child, or for your own enrichment. This activity provides comprehensible ASL language development. Each highlighted blue area links to a video, printable...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit 3 Assessment, Part I: Short Constructed Response and Organizing Notes for a Public Speech
It's time to put pen to paper. Scholars complete the first part of the mid-unit 3 assessment, writing a short constructed response about international aid following a natural disaster. Next, pupils use informational texts and note...
EngageNY
Building Background Knowledge: Jigsaw to Build and Share Expertise about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Part 1
Using the Jigsaw protocol, scholars study chunks of text from a speech given by former US presidents following a devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. As they read the speech in small groups, they build background knowledge and share...
Curated OER
Langston Hughes Was a Dreamer Too
Encourage your pupils to imagine their own dreams for the future. After studying three poems by Langston Hughes and listening to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech, young poets craft their own dream stanza.
Curated OER
Create a Parts of Speech Newspaper
In this parts of speech worksheet, students write articles and include pictures about parts of speech to make a newspaper. Students write 8 articles about parts of speech and include examples.
Student Achievement Partners
Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"
Passages from Unbroken and Farewell to Manzanar provide the context for a study of the historical themes of experiencing war, resilience during war, and understanding the lasting trauma of war. Appendices include extension activities,...
Curated OER
Reading: A Speech by Helen Keller
In this Helen Keller worksheet, students read a speech that was delivered by Helen Keller in 1925. Students answer 8 true and false comprehension questions.
Curated OER
Intro to Parts of Speech
Students are introduced to, identify and define the eight parts of speech. They view a variety of sentences and identify each word in each sentence as one of the eight parts of speech.
English Linx
Commas Worksheet (Part 1)
One of the basic rules of commas is that they are similar to pauses that occur in speech. This is what this worksheet practices. The basic rules of commas will have to be reviewed before the page can be issued, but when it is in use, you...
K12 Reader
Prepositional Phrases II
Hidden within these sentences are prepositions; think your students can find them? After first reading a brief explanation of this part of speech, young grammarians are asked to examine eight sentences, underlining the prepositional...
EngageNY
Analyzing a Thematic Concept: Becoming Visible Again, Part 2 (354–380)
Scholars take a close look at the life of Louie in Unbroken. They discuss events considered turning points in their life and use several graphic organizers and guides to help direct their thinking. After thinking about their responses,...
Curated OER
SPOTTING THE PARTS OF SPEECH
In this grammar worksheet, 4th graders identify the parts of speech. Students study 20 sentences denoting if the underlined word is a noun, verb, or an adjective. Students then write 18 sentences using a given word in its correct format.
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Blackout Worksheet
In this parts of speech worksheet, students read the definition for a part of speech and then write it on the line. Students write 15 parts of speech.
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Spelling Worksheet
In this parts of speech activity, students read the definitions of the parts of speech, and then fill in the missing letters to the word. Students complete 15 parts of speech.
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Matching
In this parts of speech worksheet, students read sentences and match them to the part of speech that they represent including similes, personification, metaphors, and more. Students complete 8 matches.
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Activity
In this parts of speech worksheet, students select the correct part of speech that would correctly fill in the blank in sentences, then supply an appropriate word.