Curated OER
Suffixes Beginning With Vowels - Review
In this suffixes worksheet, students read a sentence and add the correct suffix to the italicized word in each sentence. There are 2 suffixes to choose from at the end of each sentence. There are 10 sentences in total, but the first 2...
Curated OER
Mud Tortillas
First graders read a story entitled, "Mud Tortillas." After reviewing the book, 1st graders predict what will happen. They review methods and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. A Venn diagram is created for students to compare...
Curated OER
Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb instructional activity, learners read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence...
Curated OER
Using Suffixes -er, -or, -ar To Make Nouns
In these grammar worksheets, students will circle nouns and verbs, fill in blanks with suitable verbs, add -er and -or to verbs to create nouns, write silly sentences using nouns that end in -ar, add the correct suffix to change verbs...
Curated OER
The Glossary
In this glossary activity, students read information about a glossary and practice usage referring to the glossary example on the activity. Students answer four questions using a glossary.
Curated OER
Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a activity that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
Calvin Crest Outdoor School
Survival
Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature’s Fury: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)
Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcano eruptions, and more. To enrich their study of nature's big events, kids map tectonic plates and major earthquake locations, identify emergency response agencies, and storyboard a film about volcanos.
Curated OER
Verbs
Ninth graders define the term 'verb', differentiate between action and linking verbs, and distinguish between active and passive voice. Use this lesson plan to examine the effect of passive and active voice in writing.
Curated OER
Diamante Poem
A diamante poem, a form poem, compares two nouns using adjectives and participles. The instructional activity provided by Busy Teacher Café includes the definitions of these parts of speech, a model for the form, and a sample poem....
Curated OER
Bibim Bap For Dinner
Students participate in a literature analysis while reading the children's book "Bibim Bap For Dinner". The teacher performs a guided reading with the students while focusing on the skill of recognizing the main theme of the book....
Road to Grammar
Emphatic Adjectives
Ensure that your learners have a wonderful, fabulous, astonishing, outstanding knowledge of adjectives. This resource focuses in particular on strong adjectives. Included are a few pages of explanation and instruction, two exercises, and...
Curated OER
Improving Sentences
Help your class improve their writing with this handy presentation. Learners discuss how to use adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enhance their work. This is a terrific way to connect grammar to its everyday use.
Curated OER
Participles: Another Verbal to Know and Love
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about past and present participles. They then use what they learned to answer the 13 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
Curated OER
ESOL Obtaining Employment
Students discuss what experience is needed for each job on a list of careers. They discuss skills needed for each job on the same list. They identify verbs in both the past and present tense associated with each skill. They work in...
Curated OER
Diamante Poems
In this language arts worksheet, students are guided in the process of creating diamante poems. Then they create their own from the choices given.
Other
Free Phonics Lessons: Lesson 17 Suffixes Ed, Ing
Practice the suffixes -ed and -ing with this colorful worksheet.
Other
Oxford Dictionaries: Verb Tenses: Adding Ed and Ing
Spelling rules and word lists for adding -ed and -ing endings to verbs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Endings
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to spell regular verb endings s, ed, ing (link to grammar work on tenses).
Quia
Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.
Other
Jump Start: Suffix Search [Pdf]
Students practice making words with -ed, -ing, and -er suffixes. [PDF]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Verbals Are
Verbals are verbs disguised as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Verbals come in three forms: gerunds, infinitives, and participles. Gerunds are verbs that end in "-ing" and function as nouns. Participles end in "-ing," "-ed," "-d," "-t,"...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Inflected Endings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed for students to practice adding -s, -ed, and -ing to words.
Better English Lessons
Better English: Adjectives With Ing and Ed
A quiz on adjectives with -ing and -ed endings is to be found at this site. Choose the right word from the drop down list provided. Check your answers by clicking on the box at the bottom of the page.