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Preposition Practice
Learners learn about prepositions. In this grammar lesson, students define prepositions and learn how they work. Learners study a list of common prepositions and locate them in sentences.
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Because Phrases
In this because clauses activity, students choose the best way to shorten a because clause from the options provided. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Sentence Combining/Sentence Variety
Challenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...
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Using Commas and Five Practice Exercises
In this using commas worksheet, students read about the proper use of commas. They also read about overuse and misuse of commas in their writing. They link to five practice exercise that are listed at the bottom of the page.
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Prepositions of Time
In this prepositions of time worksheet, students complete the phrases about the prepositions of time. Students complete 52 phrases total.
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Prepositions Practice
In this preposition worksheet, students match prepositional phrases with sentence endings, then write them together to form complete sentences.
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Now Picture This
In this grammar worksheet, students solve word puzzles that contain prepositional phrases. An example is given, but puzzles have to be made.
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Prepositions Used as Adverbs
Sixth graders discuss with the teacher what a prepositional phrase when used as an adverb describes. They then understand that adverb phrases will answer the questions: where, when, in what way, or to what extent. They then do student...
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Reading House
Scholars work in pairs to describe their homes and draw a picture of their partner's home. Next, individuals discuss their ideal home in small groups and follow up their discussion with a written description.
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Prepositions of Place
In this prepositions of place, students complete a graphic organizer, completing sentences in column A with prepositional phrases of place from column B.
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Subject Verb Agreement
Seventh graders engage in a instructional activity that investigates the concept of identifying prepositions and their coinciding phrases. They also develop the skill of connecting the right form of a verb with its subject. Then students...
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When/While
In this when and while learning exercise, students choose the correct phrase to complete the sentences starting with either when or while. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Language - Simple Sentence Structure
In this sentence structure activity, students read a selection about sentence structure and draw a red circle around the noun phrase and a blue circle around the verb phrases in 5 sentences. Students also construct 6 simple sentences.
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The Paparazzi
In this preposition activity, students choose the correct preposition to complete the sentences about the paparazzi. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Prepositions Quiz
In this prepositions quiz instructional activity, students select the correct preposition to complete the twelve given sentences. This is an interactive instructional activity.
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8 Parts of Speech
Here is a terrific presentation to use as you are introducing the eight parts of speech to your class. Each of the parts of speech gets a thorough introduction, and many examples are given. There is a strong interactive component to this...
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...
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Comma Usage
Review nine common comma rules with page one of this two-page packet. Then, provide your class the second page for practice. A great resource waits for you here!
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Mad-Libbing Your Way Into Modern Poetry
Use a Mad-Libs like activity to create modern poetry! Writers will identify different words and their parts of speech and study "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Williams Carlos Williams. Then, use the sheets attached to craft your own poem! An...
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Sentence Problems
Writing is tough to perfect. Help your class improve their writing skills by studying different sentence problems. This reference guide covers sentence fragments, run-ons, and misplaced modifiers, but that's just to start! There's a...
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Active and Passive Voice
How are the active and passive voices different, and when should you use each one? The first page of this two-page worksheet contains the rules and several examples. On the second page, your grammarians will be able to put pen to paper...
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Your writing lessons may be all about solid arguments, but in grammar, it's all about agreement! Learners practice identifying proper and improper verb form in a worksheet focused on subject-verb agreement and indefinite pronouns.
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Until
In this grammar activity, students complete eighteen sentences involving the preposition until. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Same...as/As...as
In this same...as and as...as activity, students complete sentences with same...as phrases and as...as phrases. Students complete 22 sentences.