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Other

Learn That Word: Root Words & Prefixes: Quick Reference

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent reference tool listing prefixes and roots together alphabetically along with definitions and examples.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
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Towson University

Towson University: Verb Tense Consistency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
After reviewing verb tenses, this online writing support shows how to maintain verb tense consistency within in sentences, withing paragraphs, and within entire essays.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on verbs. Included are a video about why identifying verbs is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Check this brief explanation of how to tell the difference between lay, a transitive verb, and lie an intransitive verb, and use them properly in English grammar.
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Grammar Tips

Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.