Curated OER
ACROSTIC POETRY
Students use newspapers or magazines to create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.
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Tending to the Greenhouse
Young scholars investigate global warming through discussion of the growing season caused by warmer temperatures. In this greenhouse effect lesson, students define 'global warming' and work in groups to research the causes, effects, and...
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Furniture Vocabulary
In this ESL worksheet, students focus on words associated with furniture. Students complete 8 fill in the blank questions, 7 crossword answers, and use the interactive website to self check answers.
Curated OER
Mad About Parts of Speech
Eighth graders review and use the different parts of speech using Mad Libs or Web Libs. They also utilize creative writing skills by providing the most interesting word(s) for the story line. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan.
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First Class Mail
Pupils read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and write a friendly letter to Elizabeth George Speare, the author, discussing their points of interest in the novel with her.
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Spelling Plurals
In this spelling plurals worksheet, students study the 5 common rules for spelling plurals. Students fill in a chart in which the singular nouns are made plural. Then students find plurals in their reading books and classify them...
Curated OER
Georgia Performance Standards Framework for ELA Unit 3-7th Grade
Seventh graders explore persuasive writing using the city life and the country life as focus topics. In this persuasion lesson plan, 7th graders read "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" in an attempt to determine the pros and cons of...
Curated OER
Yes, No, Maybe So!
Students view various pictures and identify those that show action verbs. They write sentences to summarize the actions shown in the pictures.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
Identify when to use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
This article outlines a lesson for teaching comparative and superlative adjectives including defining and providing examples for each and a basic lesson plan for teaching them.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives
Excellent lesson on irregular comparatives and superlatives, which include mejor, peor, mayor, and menor. The lesson is thorough and easy to understand, with ample examples. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Double Comparatives and Superlatives
This page focuses on forming comparatives and superlatives and the misuse of double comparisons and superlatives such as "most fastest."
Get It Write
Get It Write: Comparatives and Superlatives
Learn the difference between the comparative and superlative degress of adjectives and how to use them. Take the brief quiz to check your understanding.
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning: Adjectives and Adverbs Comparative and Superlative Forms
This is an English style guide article focusing on comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. It explains how to form these adjectives and adverbs, how to use them, and provides examples.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Adjectives
This entry focuses on adjectives including their functions, questions they answer, and comparative and superlative forms. Each is accompanied by an explanation and examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives 2
This lesson focuses on adjectives and the rules for changing them to comparative and superlative forms. It offers textual information about adjectives and practice adding them to sentences. It also provides two YouTube videos: the first...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Adjectives: Regular Comparatives and Superlatives
A helpful site concerning the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Includes definitions and practice exercises.
Other
Efl: Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
Designed for EFL students, this tutorial also provides a good opportunity for anyone to test understanding of comparatives and superlatives.
Other
Spanish Comparatives and Superlative Sentences
Side by side English to Spanish translations of comparatives and/or superlatives of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs. Other English expressions that may be confused with Spanish comparatives are also translated. Excellent reference...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Adjectives: Superlative Adjectives
An explanation of comparative adjectives with links to additional information on the formation and use of superlative adjectives.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Adjectives
A clear, concise explanation of adjectives, including some tricky usages, how to order adjectives in a sentence, and some idiomatic uses of prepositions with -ed participles. The emphasis is on HOW adjectives are used more than on WHY...
English Club
English Club: Irregular Adjectives
This is a reference page about irregular adjectives when forming the comparative and superlative forms (such as good, better, best); it offers an explanation and examples.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Adjectives and Adverbs
This is a non-graded practice identifying adjectives and adverbs and listing comparatives.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Hyphen in Compound Adjective With Comparatives/superlatives
Rules and examples for creating the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives with or without hyphens.