Curriculum Corner
“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear learning...
Curated OER
Grammatical Person: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Person
In this grammatical person: first, second, and third person learning exercise, students determine the speaker/participants relationship. Students use a chart to identify grammatical person in seventeen sentences.
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Grammatical Items
In this grammatical items learning exercise, students write a short sentence for each of the twenty terms listed and underline the particular grammatical item in each sentence.
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Creative Writing
Students determine what grammar is and how they have learned it. In this creative writing lesson, students read "Style' Gets New Elements," and respond to the discussion questions. Students then present grammatical rules to one another...
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Students read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
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Wacky Web Tales
Students study the parts of speech and then review them. They identify each part of speech and place them on a tree map. Then they visit a website to create a "Wacky Web Tale" using information from the tree map. They print their tales...
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Prefixes, Un-, Re-, and, Dis-
Third graders identify prefixes and use prefixes correctly in sentences. They edit and change sentences containing prefixes.
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Personal Indentification For Travel
Students identify and describe the various documents they will need when traveling in the United Stans. They complete forms needed to acquire documentation needed for travel. Students write a description of a travel experience outside...
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Publishing: A Persuasive Essay
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Other
Possessives
This article contains rules about the correct way to incorporate possessives into college writing. A link with downloadable practice exercises is included at the end of the lesson.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer's Apostrophes Showing Possession
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession and examples are provided. Note that links are provided at the bottom of the page for other specific uses of the apostrophe.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Possessive
Learn to use apostrophes to indicate possession, or ownership -- and when not to use them.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Plural Possessives
This site focuses on teaching plural possessive nouns and pronouns including what they are and methods of teaching them including using flashcards, and plural possessive Bingo, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Cases of Nouns and Pronouns
In this writing and grammar tutorial, learn how to distinguish and use nouns and pronouns in English and whether they are subjective, nominative, possessive, or objective.
University College London
Internet Grammar of English: Pronouns
Grammar tutorial on the correct use pronouns. Includes a follow-up exercise on the identification of pronoun types.
Other
Adele's Esl Corner: Possessive Pronouns
Replace the possessive nouns in each sentence with the appropriate possessive pronoun.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Pronouns and Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This tutorial-quiz for pronoun usage features many examples of where pronouns fit in a sentence to achieve proper antecedent agreement.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Possessive Pronoun and Apostrophe
This Purdue Online Writing Lab article explains the three uses of the apostrophe.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Self Teaching Units: Apostrophes
This module explains how to use apostrophes to form possessive nouns and pronouns, provides links to exercises for each new idea, and a link to a post lesson quiz.
University College London
University College London: Types of Pronouns
This site from the Internet Grammar of English from the University College of London provides a table with examples of several types of pronouns. For each type, example pronouns and a usage example are given. Includes practice problems.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Apostrophes
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Noun and Pronoun Grammar Blast
Discover more about nouns and pronouns when you visit this "Grammar Blast," activity. Students have an opportunity to play a game while improving their grammar skills.