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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 4: The Renaissance

For Teachers 5th Standards
The Renaissance is the theme of a five-week unit designed to boost reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and expository writing skills. Scholars listen to and discuss daily readings and engage in skills practice activities...
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Worksheet
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Identifying Subjects and Verbs 1

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar instructional activity, students put parentheses around all prepositional phrases, identify verbs by placing a V over each one and an S over each subject in ten sentences.
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Identifying Subjects and Verbs 2

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students put parentheses around all prepositional phrases, identify verbs by placing a V over each one and place an S over each subject in ten sentences.
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Interactive
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Past Continuous Tense - Questions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, young scholars use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs....
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Preposition Combinations

For Students 5th - 7th
In this prepositions combinations worksheet, students discover the rules governing noun, verb, and adjective plus preposition combinations.  Students are also given three common types of sentence errors which involve prepositions.
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PPT
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8 Parts of Speech

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
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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When/While

For Students 5th - 10th
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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The Paparazzi

For Students 5th - 10th
In this preposition activity, students choose the correct preposition to complete the sentences about the paparazzi. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Lesson Plan
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Giving Verbal Directions/ESOL

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students practice giving verbal directions accurately and employ correct prepositions and prepositional phrases and adverbs when giving those directions. They focus on using correct grammar, imperatives and infinitives when giving those...
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Interactive
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Same...as/As...as

For Students 5th - 8th
In this same...as and as...as activity, students complete sentences with same...as phrases and as...as phrases. Students complete 22 sentences.
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Choosing the Correct Verb

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students circle the subject, x-out confusing words (prepositional phrases) and choose the correct verb that makes five sentences grammatically correct.
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Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers

For Students 4th - 5th
In these grammar errors worksheets, students review the definition of modifiers and an example of a misplaced modifier. Students then complete three pages of activities to help them avoid misplaced modifiers.
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PPT
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Confused and Misused Words and Phases

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This grammar lesson will definitely help your students ace the next skills evaluation. Provided are several examples of words that are commonly misused, confused, or misspelled. Five different strategies are given to help students avoid...
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Until

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students complete eighteen sentences involving the preposition until. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Because Phrases

For Students 4th - 8th
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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Gearing up for Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created....
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PPT
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Hillbilly Feud:Language Arts Game

For Teachers 4th - 7th
English language learners or native elementary schoolers will enjoy practicing their parts of speech with this interactive grammar game. Set deep in the backwoods of Tennessee,  the class splits in two to join either the Hartfields or...
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Worksheet
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Comma Exercises

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Reinforce comma rules with this exercise. Learners add commas to a series of sentences and, using a list of eleven rules, match the rule they followed to each sentence. This worksheet would be best for classes that have had fairly...
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Sentence Problems

For Students 8th - 10th
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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Activity
Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
If you're completely lost on what grammar you should cover for Common Core skill L.9-10.1, look here! You will find some ideas and examples on what to include, making sure your learners can master the skill. The multiple choice quiz is...
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Lesson Plan
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Prepositions Used as Adverbs

For Teachers 6th
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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Now Picture This

For Students 2nd - 4th
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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Subject-verb Agreement 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar instructional activity, students choose the appropriate verb in parentheses in twenty-five sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Using Prepositions with Participial Adjectives

For Students 4th - 5th
For this using prepositions with participial adjectives worksheet, learners read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 12 sentences with the correct preposition with immediate online feedback.