Curated OER
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens: A Classic, Or Just a Novel?
Seventh graders read the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. They consult Media Center and online sources as they conduct research needed to write an essay that answers the question, "Is Great Expectations a classic, or just a...
Curated OER
Recycling: Creative Uses for Items
Third graders list creative uses for old objects. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders work in groups to brainstorm creative, new uses for old, everyday items. This is the first lesson in a unit on recycling.
Curated OER
All About Me, My Family and Friends
Students use general skills and strategies of the writing process to show their role in their family, school, friendships, the community and the world. They demonstrate their self-motivation and increasing responsibility for their own...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar Collection
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, Ii
This 8 question quiz on sentences presents a sentence and asks students questions about its structure. Java is required.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments
This tutorial provides information about the sentence fragment. Several examples are provided to support the explanations. A PowerPoint is available on the site for additional tutorial information regarding sentence fragments and other...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, I
In this seven question quiz, students are given a sentence and asked a question about parts of the sentence, such as what is the subject of the sentence, or what is the underlined part of the sentence called. They are to select from the...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: Building Phrases
This online grammar guide defines phrases, how they are different from clauses, and how to use them in sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences Power Point
This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.
University of Calgary
Basic Elements of English: Appositive & Absolute Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides definitions, examples, and an interactive exercise on identifying appositive and absolute phrases. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Knowing the Basics of Grammar
This grammar tutorial for college students features help on verb agreement, the use of semicolons, sentence structure, and more.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases
In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Passive and Active Voices
Check out this in-depth look at the function of active and passive voice in writing effective sentences. A quiz is included at the end of the module.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Subject Verb Agreement Practice 2
Students can use this method of online practice to gain understanding of subject-verb agreement. Students select the correct verb to complete each sentence. Submit answers for instant feedback on responses.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Structures Quiz
Capital Community College provides this 9 question quiz to test your knowledge of solid sentence writing. Each answer will be explained when you hit the "Submit application," button at the end of the quiz.