Grammar Lesson Plans

Fifth graders will be able to read a chapter of Indian in the Cupboard and pick out excerpts that contain incorrect grammar and punctuation. They will be able to write the excerpts the way they are in the book and then make them more complete on their paper.

Students create games for a grammar review carnival.  In this grammar review lesson, students work in groups to create a grammar game on a particular grammar skill.  Students must create a game that engages the players and reinforces the skill assigned.  Students then play the games for small prizes at a grammar carnival.

Explore the different symbols of grammar in this grammar instructional activity. Middle schoolers write two sentences using different symbols, including asterisks, apostrophes, and ellipses. They read and answer guided questions.

Students, in groups, focus on their grammar. They practice voicing their opinion, disagreeing and giving explanations.

Learners take pictures of people, places, and things around the school and glue pictures onto the correct noun categories. In this noun lesson plan, students put together a "grammar shots" portfolio identifying pictures with the correct noun category and write sentences about the pictures.

Students create an ABC book. In this letter recognition instructional activity, students take digital pictures of items that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Students use these pictures to make an alphabet book. Students combine their pictures to make a class slideshow. Students may use this activity to make a grammar book as well.

Students create digital stories to demonstrate knowledge of grammar, literature and technology. In this grammar lesson incorporates sentence writing, grammar, literature, creating storyboards and producing a slide show.

Students analyze English by completing a handout regarding grammar rules. In this verb lesson, students identify what a verb does, where to use it in a sentence and what a verb fragment is. Students complete a worksheet based on subject and verb connections in which the singular or plural verb is used.

Students find 5 examples of incorrect grammar in sentence structure, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling in newspaper headlines, magazines, or signs. They submit their finding to the teacher for approval and correct the grammar in their findings.

Students review the rules of grammar. They create their own grid and fill it in with given grammatical principles. Students use their grid for a bingo card and play grammar bingo. Students read their notes and verify them for accuracy and understanding.