Curriculum Corner
Book Study: The Mitten
Looking for a set of resources to compliment a reading of The Mitten by Jan Brett? A fun winter resource has everything from story sequencing and writing prompts to a parts of speech sort and a mitten flap book. The activities are great...
McGraw Hill
Vocabulary Power
Augment your language arts units with a set of vocabulary worksheets. The packet is an excellent support to your vocabulary instruction that covers a variety of skills, including context clues, Greek and Latin roots, reference materials,...
K12 Reader
Valentine’s Day Adjectives and Adverbs
Connect parts of speech with Valentine's Day in an engaging grammar worksheet with a Valentine theme. Learners fill in the blanks with the appropriate adjective or adverb to complete each sentence.
K12 Reader
Find What the Adjective Describes
Adjectives can appear anywhere in a sentence, so spotting the nouns they describe can be tricky. Practice identifying parts of speech with a quick review instructional activity in which learners circle the nouns in eight sentences that...
K12 Reader
Order of Adjectives: Write a Sentence
Knowing the parts of speech can make you a better writer! Young grammarians use sets of two and three adjectives to write engaging sentences, taking care to use the adjectives in the correct order.
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Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment
Of all the amendments found in The Bill of Rights, the First Amendment contains some of the most important freedoms for American citizens. A unit plan on the First Amendment features interactive lesson plans designed to teach about those...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: Analyzing an Informational Text about a Refugee Experience
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions is an organization that helps newcomers adjust to life in the United States through education and community leadership opportunities. As part of a mid-unit assessment, pupils independently read a...
K12 Reader
Predicate Adjective or Not?
Defining the parts of a sentence is just like real estate—it's all about location! Learners read eight sentences and decide whether the describing words are predicate adjectives or not, based on their position in the sentence.
Curated OER
Investigation--Can You Build This?
Early learners explore shapes using colored blocks. They first get some hands-on time with the blocks and then look at beginning math concepts regarding spatial relationships. They work with a partner to build a 6-8 block tower with...
K12 Reader
Working with Adverbs
Encourage critical thinking with a grammar exercise that focuses on adverbs and adverbial phrases. Kids read the first parts of 16 sentences, then decide which question to answer (how, how much, where, or when) based on the context, and...
Curated OER
Irregular Past Participles
Even though this activity on past participles is designed for an ESL class, it could work in any class setting. Questions prompt students to fill in the blanks with past participles, and to think about the functions of participles within...
K12 Reader
Demonstrative Pronouns
Ask your pupils to demonstrate their understanding of demonstrative pronouns by completing this learning exercise. There are two parts to the exercise. First, learners identify the pronouns in sentences, and then they complete a short...
Curated OER
-ER and -IR Verbs
A large part of learning a foreign language is learning how to conjugate the verbs in that language. Focus on -er and -ir verbs with this resource. In the first exercise, pupils conjugate the verb in parentheses to complete each of 15...
Curated OER
Worksheet 8: Reading: A Job Problem
This worksheet is an appropriate way to have adults learning English review the nuances of the vocabulary. Students have to read an email about a work-related scenario and answer 12 questions.
Curated OER
The Teller of the Tale, Part 2
Students discuss character types and their qualities. They select two characters and write about their dress, speech, habits, attitudes and beliefs. They write a monologue as the characters presenting a moral theme.
Curated OER
8 Comma Rules
In this comma rules instructional activity, students read 30 sentences and add commas where needed. Detailed rules for the use of commas are on the page to help.
Curated OER
Parts of Speech: Active Verbs
Students use White Fang to help them study active verbs. For this grammar lesson, students define active verbs and find examples in the the novel White Fang. Students then use ProQuest to research a place they'd like to visit. Students...
Curated OER
Parts of Speech: Conjunctions
In this conjunctions activity, students read about conjunctions and then take a multiple choice quiz on them. Students complete 10 questions.
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Using Homophones Part 4
In this spelling homophones correctly worksheet, 4th graders use the homophone pairs in the words box to complete each pair of sentences.
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Parts of the Body (People)
In this nouns worksheet, students complete 13 sentences by filling in the blanks with the correct word from the word pool and use the plural form if necessary.
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Vocabulary: Expressing Future Time, Part 1
In this grammar worksheet on future tense, students complete a word search containing 8 future tense verbs. The 1st letter of each word is indicated with gray shading.
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Word Pyramid-- Parts of a Sentence
In this language arts worksheet, young scholars build a word pyramid by following the detailed directions on the page Students use the indicated part of speech, number of letters and initial sound to construct the word. Example: A 4...
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Sentence Worksheet
In this parts of speech worksheet, students write a sentence with each word that represents a part of speech. Students complete sentences for 15 words.
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Interjection
Wow! Yes! Great! Practice identifying interjections! After reading through a definition and example of interjection, class members underline the interjections in each sentence.