In an exercise from the Purdue Online Writing Lab, learners can review 11 rules for comma usage. They then either label 21 sample sentences C for correct as is, or they identify which rule of comma usage is being broken. Though the...

Whether you are planning a unit on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, or simply want to improve your pupils' descriptive writing, this lesson could be a good addition to your class. Using the Six-Trait Writing process, pupils...

ASL is fun to learn and now so easy! This is lesson 15 in a series of 30+ lessons of learning or teaching ASL in a comprehensible and strategic way. Use this lesson to reinforce identifying community helpers and conducting an interview....

Interactive SMART Board activities provide young grammarians with practice changing singular nouns to plural nouns. Learners then create collages on which they inscribe the singular and plural form of the noun label.

Riddle me this! What do kennings, caesura, and alliteration have to do with the Nowell Codex? Introduce class members to Anglo-Saxon poetry and prepare readers for a study of Beowulf with a series of activities that...

Students examine the concept of freedom of speech as it applies to music. They watch and discuss the video, "VH1 Storytellers: Pearl Jam," participate in a class discussion about free speech, conduct research, and conduct a debate.

This PowerPoint features information about adverb and adjective clauses. Several examples of sentences that include adjective clauses are provided along with explanations of their functions in the sentences. Some slides contain practice...

In this business worksheet, students fill in the graphic organizer with the appropriate word from the word bank and make connections from one part of the bubble map to another.

Students input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created....

Third graders demonstrate knowledge of adjectives, and use this knowledge to color-code parts of speech of a sentence.

In this adverbs of manner worksheet, students will fill in a table of adverbs and adjectives; then select a word (either an adverb or an adjective) to complete the given sentence.

In this adverbs learning exercise, students read 25 sentences and insert an adverb of frequency into each one. There is a word bank of adverbs to choose from.

In this prepositions of time instructional activity, learners put a preposition of time in front of days of the week, months, holidays, times of day, and more. Students complete 70 problems.

In this past tense instructional activity, students choose the correct verb in the past tense to complete the sentences. Students complete 19 sentences.

Once and for all, discern when to use the pronoun "I" and when to use "me." Clear definitions and examples are given for each category of possessive, subjective, and objective pronouns. In easy-to-understand language, the most helpful...

¡Vamos a practicar! Your beginning Spanish speakers need this well-organized, interactive PowerPoint to learn how to conjugate regular -ar verbs in the present tense. This resource provides scaffolding, and the slides build on one...

Hola Marta! Start by reading the short letter to Marta. Then, using the adjectives and nouns in parentheses, complete the 10 blank spaces in the paragraph. Make sure the adjectives match their nouns! Consider using this short activity as...

Compile a packet of practice worksheets for your beginning Spanish speakers learning about expressing actions in the past tense and using preterite verbs. Simply search more worksheets for preterite and imperfect tenses to add resources!

Using sentences from the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, this presentation explores the use of correct grammar. It starts out by giving examples of complete and incomplete sentences, and then moves on to nouns, verbs, and...

Introduce your beginning Spanish class to regular verbs. The three-page packet contains a verb chart and three translation activities. The final page offers an extension activity which has learners search for the conjugation of irregular...

Scritch, scratch, scritch. It's the sound of pupils writing poetry! Focus on sensory language and onomatopoeia with a writing lesson. After listening to some sounds, learners examine a couple of poems that include sound words and then...

As a review of persuasive techniques, groups develop a one-sentence slogan designed to entice others to purchase a produce or adopt a point of view. The group then craft a storyboard for a commercial for their product.

In this foreign language worksheet, students fill in the blanks for ten sentences. Each sentence present a quote that a person might hear. They write an interpretation of the intent of the speaker.

In this foreign language worksheet, students read a quoted sentence. They fill in the blank on an interpretive sentence to describe the meaning of the quote.