ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar: Powerful Verbs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the use of powerful verbs, such as hobbled instead of went, through the cloze procedure.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Verb Activities
This articles discusses the use of grammar games to help students understand verbs; it describes several verb activities and games including verb activities with a word wall, Power Verbs, Nicky Noun and Victor Verb, and Fortune Cookie...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise: The Power of Words
Explore the power of words in this media gallery from American Masters. Using video, discussion questions, and teaching tips, students assess the persuasiveness of Maya Angelou's argument that words have power. Students also perform a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Modal Verbs
The modal verbs of English are really powerful; you can use them to ask for permission, give advice, determine how likely something is, and many other things besides! Test your knowledge of the modals!
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Tense Shift Power Point
Learn about using consistent verb tenses and practice identifying tense shifts in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Verb Forms Power Point
Learn about regular and irregular verbs and practice identifying correct verb usage in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Subject Verb Agreement Power Point
Learn about subject-verb agreement and practice identifying correct agreement in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Other
Windmill Works: The Case of Geronimo's Headress Part 1
A short fill-in-the-blank exercise on identifying the correct modal verb forms. Read a short paragraph about Geronimo's headress and then choose the correct verb in the following paragaph. Hints are available.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Reading Power Bingo!
This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Super Why! read aloud a word. Then students must click on "the opposite" of the word read aloud. Students continue clicking on the opposite of each word read...
Other
French teacher.net: Resources and Lessons
This site maintained by a teacher in North Yorkshire, England, is a veritable treasure trove of resources for French teachers for grades K-12. Includes grammar handouts, lesson plans, and even Power Point presentations to download, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Read about the tense 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that nearly resulted in nuclear war.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
In this 3-lesson unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with romanticism...