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Grammar-Quizzes.com: Adjective Clauses and Comma Usage
An online interactive quiz provides grammarians a chance to check their expertise with adjective clauses and comma usage. Many of the 15 examples deal with correct usage to avoid clauses that end in a preposition. Select the answer you...
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Using Commas: Interactive Practice
Learners read an overview of comma usage rules and then take an online interactive quiz. First they answer 10 multiple choice questions in which they identify the sentence with incorrect usage. On the next page, they retype a given...
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Sentence Tanglers
Correctly writing sentences can be made easier when learners are given a list of common pitfalls. This presentation about subject/verb agreement, word usage, and irregular verbs could help students cement their grammar skills. There are...
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Articles and Article Check-Up
Help your learners practice proper article usage with this informational handout and brief exercise. After reading information about articles and their uses, including details about when to omit articles, scholars complete fourteen...
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Analyzing Verb Use: Part 2
With the Wordle ap in one hand, and their favorite writing piece in the other, 3rd graders analyze their verb usage. They select a piece they have written, type it into Wordle, then analyze their word choices and alter them using synonyms.
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a worksheet that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
Portland Public Schools
Opinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction
Opinion, audience, purpose. Fourth graders are introduced to the three characteristics of persuasive writing in the third unit of a year-long writing program. The 98-page packet is complete with plans, model essays, graphic organizers,...
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Verbs in Context
In this online/interactive verb usage worksheet, students fill in the blanks with verbs from multiple choice answers. Students choose 20 answers.
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Prepositions in Sentences
In this preposition usage learning exercise, students read illustrated interrogative sentences and write the answers in statements which include prepositions. Students create five sentences.
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Grammar and Usage
Seventh graders gain practice in writing sentences according to a specific purpose: declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory. This lesson includes a very thorough worksheet and assessment.
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Grammar and Usage: Fill in the Blanks
In this online interactive worksheet, students read sentences with numbered blanks and choose the word or group of words that complete the sentences. Students select 10 multiple choice answers.
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Grammar and Usage: Editing Practice
In this editing learning exercise, students read 10 sentences and decide whether the underlined portion is correct as it is or choose the correction that should be made.
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Grammar Usage: Editing
in this editing worksheet, learners correct the underlined portion of 10 sentences for grammar mistakes. Some sentences have no grammar mistakes.
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CVC Words
Practice simple sight words. Focusing on words such as bat, run, and sun, learners explore reading and spelling skills. It is a quick and easy way to review this topic. A teacher could add words to the presentation to make it a richer...
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Homophones
Help your class understand homophones using this presentation. Learners discuss the difference between common homophones, such as son and sun, road and rode, and sea and see. This would be a great way to kick off a lesson on homophones.
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Homophones
Use this presentation to practice homophones in your classroom. Learners identify and discuss the meanings of words such as pair and pear, weak and week, cell and sell. This is a quick and easy way to review this concept.
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Using the Word Ending -ous
Help your class practice spelling and vocabulary skills using this resource. This presentation leads learners on an exploration of words ending in -ous. Using words, such as famous, generous, and dangerous, they discuss meanings and...
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Diminutives
Help your class understand the use of diminutives. This comprehensive presentation leads learners through an exploration of diminutives used with words such as pig and cow, and prefixes and suffixes. It is a great tool to use to...
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Don't Use Said
What an interesting presentation! Learners discuss alternatives to the use of the word said in their writing. The suggestions include the words bellowed, demanded, laughed, and mumbled. This is a creative approach to this topic. Use this...
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Say What You See!
Challenge your class with this innovative method for discussing sayings. Using the rebus format, learners identify the sayings referred to in a series of slides. The examples include such things as the word hand with a smaller version of...
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Spelling Plurals
Walk your class through the rules relating to writing plurals using this presentation. In an easy-to-understand format, this resource explores the ways to change a singular word to a plural. There are a number of examples and pictures to...
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There, Their, and They're
Clear up the confusion between the homophones, there, their, and they're. A definition of each word is provided along with an example sentence. Learners fill in the blank in a series of sentences with the correct there, they're, or...
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Read and Spell Tricky Words
Use this clever strategy for practicing the spelling of tricky words. The presentation focuses on the words many, laughed, because, different, day, and any. They use a look, say, cover, write, and check system for practicing these words.
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Semicolons and Commas Review
Young grammarians review the proper usage of colons and semicolons in writing. Given a list of sentences, they determine which are direct characterizations and which are indirect characterizations. They also decide where the punctuation...