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Punctuation 2: Other than Commas
Thoroughly cover the nuances of apostrophes, quotation marks, dashes, hyphens, colons, and semi-colons. Intended for higher-level English classes, the examples given pertain to tricky rules and formal language. There are no animations or...
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Family and Friends: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit consisting of English language development lessons. Reinforce language proficiency, particularly in family vocabulary, basic needs, feelings, short vowel sounds, blending, reading high frequency...
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Sing your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "Belongings"
Students spell and punctuate singular and plural possessive words.
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Apostrophes - possession
Students examine the use of apostrophes. From a given reading, students locate all words with apostrophes. Using these words as examples, students discuss rules for using apostrophes. Students match a person an an object from a list...
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Noun Book
Seventh graders create a book about the different types of nouns. In this noun book lesson, 7th graders discuss and define plurals, possessives, and proper nouns. Students then make a book or PowerPoint presentation containing examples...
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Surprise!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Cover an array of topics such as where we live, different times of day, shapes, the city and the country, what we do for fun, jobs, and games, all while practicing how to express...
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Kin Bee
In this possessive nouns learning exercise, students pick cards with possessive nouns on them and come up with complete sentences to show family relationships. Players get points for each correct sentence.
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Case Closed... Or Confusing?- a Quick Guide To the Three Cases
In this grammar worksheet, learners read about grammar rules and then complete questions. Grammar rules covered are possessive, nominative, and objective case, linking verbs. invisible verbs, and pronoun use. This is an advanced grammar...
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School-Home Links: Possession and Apostrophes
In this apostrophe activity, learners read through several sentences and choose the correct apostrophe word from the box to write on the line. Parents or guardians must sign the activity.
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Language – Form of Ownership
In this possessive proper nouns worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 6 sentences with the possessive form of the owner's name.
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The Belonging Apostrophe
For this possessive nouns worksheet, students review 10 words and 14 sentences Students add apostrophes where they are needed.
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Apostrophes
Here is some very good, interactive practice for your class regarding when they should, and should not, use apostrophes. Clear examples are given, and learners have ample opportunities to practice the skill. Instant feedback is given for...
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Review: Nouns
In this nouns instructional activity, students write the irregular plural and possessive form of nouns. Students complete 16 problems on this instructional activity.
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Speaker, Speaker: Using Pronouns to Show Person
In this pronouns activity, students fill in 12 blanks completing 7 facts about pronouns, read 8 sentences and determine if the underlined pronoun in each sentence is told in first, second or third person.
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The Driveway Case
Students discover how courts determine property possession using evidence. In this critical analysis lesson, students use provided case studies and evidence to determine legal possession. This lesson would be suitable for group work and...
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Spelling Vocabulary Words with "PH"
In this completing the "ph" words with missing letters worksheet, students read sentences with incomplete words, use the scrambled missing letters and context clues, and fill in the missing letters to complete the words and sentences....
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Commonly Mixed Pairs of Words
In this word meanings worksheet, students practice choosing the correct word for the sentence. Students complete fifteen sentences by choosing the correct word for each sentence.
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Showing Ownership
In this language arts activity, students show ownership clearly by using the correct forms. Students read 5 sentences and write the correct singular or plural pronoun that goes with the italicized words. Then students choose the correct...
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Personal Pronouns: Putting It All Together
In this personal pronouns worksheet, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about personal pronouns and choose which multiple choice pronoun in parentheses correctly completes 8 sentences. Students practice using the pronouns I or...
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Creating a Hyperstudio Slide Show
Students create a HyperStudio slide show. In this technology lesson, students take the report on a hero that they had previously written. They use HyperStudio to create a multimedia slide show to present to their peers.
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 2
In this confused words worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct confusing word. Students complete 20 sentences.
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School-Home Links: Apostrophe Usage
In this showing possession activity, students review the rules and several examples for apostrophe usage to show possession. Students' task is to change the phrases to show possession using an apostrophe.
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What's Wrong With This Picture
In this punctuation activity, middle schoolers examine a picture that contains a sign that is found outside of Norwich Cathedral. They find the error in the sign which deals with the use of an apostrophe in a possessive.
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Spellcheck Outlaws
These outlaws are hard to catch! Spellcheckers do not notice certain grammatical mistakes when they are technically correctly spelled words. For instance, one does not want to say that the colors compliment each other on the slide since...