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Second graders complete a spelling activity to learn how to spell plural words. In this plural words lesson, 2nd graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then a worksheet to spell plural words.
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Adjectives in Dialogue
Ninth graders use adjectives to depict setting and reveal character and incorporate adjectives into dialogue appropriate for setting.
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Prepositions Song
Students memorize a list of prepositions and are encouraged to use them in their writing.
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Adjectives in Poetry
Students read selected poems from the book Beast Feast, by Douglas Florian. They identify at least two to three keyword facts about each beast highlighted in the poems.
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Mix and Match Poetry
Third graders compare boring and vivid words: adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. They list them and come up with 10 vivid words on cards. They shuffle all the cards and use 10 to write "vivid" poetry.
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Amazing Adjectives
Fourth graders compose sentences that use descriptive adjectives to describe a specific food and day that they both like and dislike. They should really enjoy coming up with words that describe their favorite and least favorite foods!
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Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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Using Prepositions #1
Students practice using prepositions in written and verbal form. They use a reference sheet to help them. They use the internet to help them create their own short reference list.
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Using Prepositions #2
Students practice using prepositions related to movement in written and verbal form. They use the internet to help them create a reference sheet. They complete a worksheet to end the instructional activity.
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What's Happening?
Pupils participate in a grammar game. They identify verbs, adverbs and phrases. They complete a quiz at the end of the lesson to determine how much practice they still need.
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The Classroom Easter Egg Hunt
Students work cooperatively to discover hidden Easter eggs in the classroom using prepositions of location. They record the location of the eggs on the worksheet found at the included web link but do not move it so others can find it.
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Vivid Verbs
Fifth graders review action verbs by brainstorming a list of them as a class. Using magazines, they pick one picture and use a dictionary or thesaurus to identify verbs that describe the action taking place. Using the new verbs, they...
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Vivid Verbs in Writing
Eighth graders explore how to incorporate vivid verbs in their writing. They review action verbs in sentences and view a Power Point presentation discussing possible verbs and their meanings. They view a website and retell a Greek myth...
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Verbs and Adverbs
Middle schoolers identify the verbs, nouns and pronouns in a groups of sentences . As a class, they discuss the importance of verbs and discover the function of adverbs. To end the lesson, they examine the difference between adjectives...
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Subject Verb Agreement
Seventh graders engage in a lesson 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 take a quiz...
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Adjectives Ending --ible and --able
It is difficult for students to remember when to use the -ible or -able word endings. This 20 question quiz provides a review of this concept using commonly misspelled words.
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Close and Shut
Open and closed - or open and shut? Using context clues in ten multiple choice questions, learners choose whether they should use "closed" or "shut" to fill in the blank. This activity could be great addition to a vocabulary lesson in a...
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Conjunctions
Reinforce your young grammarians' knowledge of conjunctions with this activity, which provides ten questions for students to fill in the blanks based on context clues. Helpful for all learners and particularly English learners, this...
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End & Finish
In this noun/verb worksheet, students choose the appropriate noun, end or finish, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Each and Every
In this adjective/adverb worksheet, students read fourteen sentences and choose the correct word, each or every, that makes each sentence grammatically correct.
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Me and To Me
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the correct pronoun, me or to me, in sixteen sentences that make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Phrasal Verbs -- Sign
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the correct preposition with the verb sign to make each of the ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Articles with Uncountable Nouns
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate articles, adjectives and/or adverbs to make ten sentences grammatically correct.
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All & Every
In this grammar worksheet, learners choose the appropriate word choice in ten sentences that make each one grammatically correct.