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Curated OER

Commas 101: The Basics

For Students 7th - 9th
Clear up common questions about commas with this handy resource! Useful as a reference page as well as a grammar activity, it presents six different rules for comma usage, including fanboys, lists, and parenthetical words and phrases. A...
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Grammar Net

A, An, Some, Any

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Practice a, an, some, and any with a straightforward worksheet. Kids fill in the blanks for 20 sentences, using context clues and their knowledge of each word.
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Grammar Net

Reported Speech

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
What did he say? Learn to report what another person said with a learning exercise focused on reported speech. As kids read 20 short statements, they reply with a sentence frame to report what they have learned from each statement.
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Grammar Net

So v. Such

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
When should you use such and when should you use so? Kids look through 20 sentences and fill in the blanks with so, such, such a, or such an.
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Curated OER

Modals and Their Meaning in Context

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
By focusing on an oil-related theme, learners answer questions using context clues. They assign meaning to each highlighted modal in an example sentence from a word bank of choices. (Examples of meaning choices include impossibility...
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Curated OER

Avoiding Run-On Sentences (I)

For Students 7th - 9th
Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 2: Unit 1, Lesson 11

For Teachers 9th Standards
The capitalization rules are strict and inflexible—until you experience the fluid beauty of an Emily Dickinson poem. Ninth graders test their existing knowledge of language arts conventions with the many bent grammar rules in "I Felt a...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 7

For Teachers 9th Standards
As the unit on research writing draws to a close, class members continue to revise and edit their papers, this time focusing on grammar, spelling, and punctuation (colon and semicolon).
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Nosapo

Pronouns: Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Which do you use: that or this? Which or where? Me or I? Practice pronoun use with a series of activities that focus on personal and demonstrative pronouns.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Tell-Tale Heart

For Students 7th - 12th
Here's the perfect resource for anyone using Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story the "Tell-Tale Heart." The packet includes five worksheets that provide skills practice exercises focusing on spelling with consonant blends, words with...
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Curated OER

Grammar Skills

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table by filling in the correct words. The table is divided into adjective, comparative form, and superlative form.
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Curated OER

Grammar Skills

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table by filling in the correct words. The table is divided into adjective, adverb form, noun form, and verb form.
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Curated OER

Misplaced Modifiers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read 10 sentences that all contain modifiers. If the modifiers are not in the correct position, students re-write the sentences.
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Curated OER

Business English Going to for Future Plans Sentence Guessing Game

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, choose one out of twenty-six sentences to tell their partner and their partner must guess what they are preparing for in the future.
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Curated OER

Be Your Own Chief Editor

For Teachers 9th
The value of this punctuation and grammar lesson plan is in the SMART board presentation, which takes pupils through the proofreading process. It would be a good way to introduce the idea of proofreading in your class before beginning a...
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Curated OER

Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Language Arts Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
Review word choice and grammar skills with this practice test for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Fifteen multiple-choice questions prompt eighth graders to recall writing strategies, grammar skills, and...
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Curated OER

The Final Copy

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Write short stories in which events are presented in logical order, point of view is clear, theme and characters are developed. Middle schoolers also work on sensory language, concrete language and/or dialogue. They establish their...
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Curated OER

You Be the Editor

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Young editors work in teams to find all the errors in a text. They identify grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Use this activity to reinforce correct usage of prominent punctuation symbols, such as apostrophes and ellipses. You...
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Curated OER

War Poetry, Journals and Letters: Viet Nam

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Examine letters written during war-time. In this cross curricular history and English lesson, middle and high school scholars read letters and poems written by soldiers in the Vietnam war. They will examine the perspective and emotions...
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Curated OER

Creative Writing Workshop (Middle, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Bring this lesson into your unit about creative writing and precise language. First, middle schoolers create a piece of writing with the help of their classmates. In the second part of this workshop, they edit their own piece of writing....
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Minnesota Literacy Council

Grapes of Wrath and Pronouns

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Many regard John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as the great American novel. The lesson plan combines a variety of strategies, including partner work, independent practice, creative writing, grammar instruction, and small group...
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Curated OER

Word Structure- Prefix and Suffix

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Identify common prefixes and suffixes used in the English language and categorize the different kinds of information provided in a dictionary entry. Learners will write at least five pieces of information that they learn about a word...
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Curated OER

Definite Article or Zero Article-Geography

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Here is a grammar and geography worksheet! Learners choose the correct sentence or answer for sixteen questions dealing with articles in connection with geography.
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Curated OER

Relative Pronouns--Omission

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar activity, students choose whether to omit or keep the relative pronoun in ten sentences. Students check their answers when completed.

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