Curated OER
Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #3
In this online interactive grammar and usage worksheet, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Grammar and Usage: Section 2, #4
In this online interactive grammar and usage learning exercise, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Grammar and Usage: Section 1
In this online interactive grammar and usage instructional activity, students examine 10 sentences, select the appropriate revision for each sentences, and submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Sayings Quiz: Mixed 4
Comprehend English sayings! Elementary schoolers read familiar sayings in isolation and in context in order to determine their usage. They choose 10 multiple choice answers and use the buttons to check their answers.
Education World
Every-day Edit: Rubber Duck Voyagers
Learners correct errors in spelling and usage in a quick, six-line proofreading exercise. Makes a nice warm-up and reinforces editing skills. I've seen work like this called Daily Oral Language (D.O.L) practice; the class reviews the...
Education World
Every-Day Edit - Harriet Tubman
Young editors use this half-sheet paragraph about Harriet Tubman to practice proofreading skills. Errors needing correction include spelling, quotation marks, commas, there/their usage, and capitalization.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Ida B. Wells
Practice language convention usage with this brief proofreading exercise. Together your class can verbally correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Ida B. Wells. Then individual learners can rewrite it or mark the hard...
Curated OER
Participles
In this recognizing participles in sentences worksheet, students read definitions and examples of participle usage, read statements, identify one or two participles, and write the noun or pronoun they modify. Students write 34 answers.
Curated OER
Vocabulary in Sentences
With a vocabulary usage instructional activity, readers use context clues to determine the correct choices of vocabulary words to complete sentences. They complete 12 questions, most of which are based on gerunds and infinitives.
Curated OER
Commonly Confused Words Exercise
Accept or except? Advice or advise? Eminent or imminent? Which is which witch? In order to select the correct word to complete 20 sentences, learners get out their dictionaries and check the meaning and usage of the commonly confused pairs.
Curated OER
My School Trip to the Aquarium
Second graders correct verb usage in context, fill in the blanks to complete sentences, and use the writing prompt to write about a school trip to an aquarium or a zoo. They write 20 answers.
Curated OER
Verb Forms
Targeting some commonly misused verbs, this worksheet could help students avoid language-related errors. While just a short review of verbs, it could be a way to introduce the importance of proper word usage.
Curated OER
Latin Roots fin, sed, fer: True/False quiz
An interactive online quiz checks mastery of the Latin roots fin, sed/sid/sess, and fer with 12 true/false items. Pupils agree or disagree with the usage of intermediate level vocabulary in context. Part of MyVocabulary.com which offers...
Curated OER
Pronoun Practice
Pronouns, pronouns, pronouns! There are so many different types, and understanding their usage can be quite tricky. A chart at the top of the first page gives examples of subject pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronouns, and...
Incentive Publications
Building Proofreading Skills
Designed to build proofreading skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and language usage, as well as proofreading for clarity, transition, and order, this workbook is packed with activities for all kinds of writing.
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com
Adjectives: Comparative or Superlative?
When do you use a comparative adjective instead of a superlative adjective? Review grammar usage with a activity about comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, in which readers use context clues to select the correct answer.
Prestwick House
Ten Days to A+ Grammar: Verbs
What are you doing today? What have you done this week? What will you be doing next month? Focus on verb usage with a series of fill-in-the-black exercises on basic tenses, inappropriate shifts in tense, and active and passive voice.
Curated OER
Word Order for Adjectives Exercise
In this grammar activity, learners explore the usage of adjectives. Students have fourteen sentences where they are to order the words correctly.
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.1
Despite English grammar rules, in the e-world the plural of mouse is mouses. lol. Standard American English is constantly evolving. Introduce your class members to a variety of terms that describe different usage changes (economy,...
Curated OER
English Exercises: Using What in an Exclamation
For this using 'what' in an exclamation worksheet, 5th graders interactively fill in 10 exclamatory sentences with the correct form of what, with immediate online feedback.
Curated OER
English Exercises: Advanced Adverbs
In this advanced adverbs activity, 8th graders interactively select the sentence that fits the meaning given, based on the placement of the adverb, for 20 sentences, with immediate online feedback.
Curated OER
English Exercises: Present Continuous For Beginners
In this present continuous for beginners worksheet, 4th graders interactively select the correct word to complete 21 sentences with animated illustrations and immediate online feedback.
Curated OER
English Exercises: Idioms about Garfield, Cool Cat
In this English exercises: idioms about Garfield, cool cat learning exercise, 6th graders watch the video, interactively unscramble 4 lines to the song, fill in 10 more word in the lyrics, match 10 cat idioms with their meaning, then...
Curated OER
CTBS Usage Practice #2
For this CTBS practice worksheet, students identify topic sentences, simple subject, and simple predicate. They also combine multiple sentences and identify sentences that do not belong in a paragraph. Students answer nineteen...