Curated OER
Acadie -- Alive and Well!
Students examine the culture of Acadian through the paintings of Robert Harris. Using the internet, they read examples of Acadian history through primary source documents. As a class, they continue to share stories orally by pretending...
Curated OER
Timelines
First graders examine what a timeline is and how it shows a sequence of events. They look at a timeline of the teacher's life before they design a timeline of their own based on major events in their lives. Finally, they right one event...
Curated OER
If I Were An Ant - Creative Writing
The teacher reads the story "If I Were An Ant" by Amy Moses. The students then each create a page in a classroom book about what a small object would look like if he/she was an ant. The student writes about their chosen object and then...
Curated OER
Take Heed, Scurvy Dogs!
Students examine the use of ghosts in shipping stories. As a class, they assign roles and they act them out in a play. They make it seem as if they are in danger on their voyage and work together to create a script. They ask questions...
Curated OER
Runaways Past and Present
Tenth graders use video and the Internet to compare runaway teenagers of the 1930s with runaways today. The lesson uses the integration of technology in order to build skills and conduct research.
Curated OER
Lost Empires of Asia and Russia
Students view a video on the Russian Revolution of 1917. In this revolution lesson, students research from the perspective of peasants or aristocracy and create a presentation promoting their side. Students refute each others arguments...
Curated OER
Wagons West: Proofreading
Students proofread each others journal entries. In this proofreading instructional activity, students exchange journal entries to proofread according to instructions given by the teacher. Students will read a different journal each...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subject Complement
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subject pronoun in the context of a sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Noun Clauses
This slideshow lesson focuses on noun clauses including defining them, providing a list of words that introduce them, and discussing each of the five roles they can play in sentences with examples. The five roles of noun clauses are...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identifying Subject, Direct Object, and in Direct Object
Learn to identify the subject and direct/indirect objects of sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Nouns and Their Functions
This entry focuses on nouns and their functions as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, subjective complements, objective complements, and appositives.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complements
To identify the different types of complements (subject, object, verb). To show the different ways in which they complete ideas.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects
This slideshow instructional activity focuses on objects: direct objects, indirect objects, and the objects of the preposition; it also discusses objective complements. It defines objects in general and each of the above individually and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Romanticism: Parts of the Sentence
This lesson focuses on parts of a sentence including simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, subject compliments, and complements. It also provides examples of each and a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Objects
This instructional activity focuses on objects and object complements; it defines objects and shows how they are used in sentences. It explains the difference between subjects and objects, and it defines object complements and explains...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Parts of the Sentence
This University of Ottawa site overviews the parts of the sentence and then provides a list of links to the various individual parts including subject and predicate, objects and complements, noun, pronoun, phrase, clause, and a review...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Gerund
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a gerund in the context of a sentence.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: The Parts of a Sentence
This section on sentences includes information on subjects and predicates as well as objects and complements. It provides a brief overview along with several examples of usage and links to parts of the sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gerunds and Infinitives: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces gerunds and infinitives and explains how they are used. This lesson is part 2 of 3 in the series titled "Gerunds and Infinitives."
Other
Sil: Glossary of Linguistic Terms: Predicate Noun
This site briefly defines the predicate noun, provides an example, and lists several sources.
University College London
University College London: Object
Click on appropriate index links to discussions on direct object, indirect object, and objective case. Site by University College London.
Other
Discovery Channel Na Escola (Discovery School Brazil)
This site is divided into three areas: Teachers, Parents, and Students, and complements one-hour educational programs offered by Discovery Channel Brazil. An interactive schedule allows teachers, students, and parents to find activities...