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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 4: The Renaissance

For Teachers 5th Standards
The Renaissance is the theme of a five-week unit designed to boost reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and expository writing skills. Scholars listen to and discuss daily readings and engage in skills practice activities...
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Printables
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BW Walch

Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Preposition House

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Identify and use prepositions to describe how objects relate to one another. Each child draws a house and then draws items in, around, on, and under the house to demonstrate different prepositions. Written descriptions accompany their...
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Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

Say It with Style: Syntax and Parallel Structure

For Teachers 9th Standards
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech provides the text for a lesson that introduces scholars to the significance of syntax. After examining several types of clauses, phrases, and structures, class members use the...
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Writing
Perfection Learning

In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Activity Book

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Moving to a new country isn't easy, as Shirley Temple Wong learns in In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord. A series of language arts activities carry readers through the novel, addressing the story's themes,...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Add a Prepositional Phrase to an Adjective Phrase

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Don't just rely on adjectives to describe the nouns in your sentence! Use a handy worksheet to review prepositional and adjective phrases. Learners read eight sentences and add prepositional phrases as adjectives after either the subject...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Challenge young grammarians with a activity on prepositional phrases. Given ten sentences, learners must decide which ones include prepositional phrases that function as adjectives to the nouns in the sentence.
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

My Little Kitty

For Students 1st Standards
Can the small cat catch the rat? Find out in a short passage designed for first graders, complete with four comprehension questions that address details from the text.
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PPT
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Curated OER

Phrases and Clauses

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Clarify the different types of phrases and clauses that young writers can use to vary their sentence structure. A helpful slideshow presentation encourages your class to fix sentences by adding more interesting phrases and clauses,...
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Worksheet
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McGraw Hill

Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers everything from sentence...
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Worksheet
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K12 Reader

Prepositional Phrases II

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Hidden within these sentences are prepositions; think your students can find them? After first reading a brief explanation of this part of speech, young grammarians are asked to examine eight sentences, underlining the prepositional...
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Workbook
Longman

Grammar Practice for Elementary Students

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Designed for elementary students, this 178-page practice booklet covers all the basic elements of grammar instruction.
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Workbook
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McGraw Hill

Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Subject-Verb Agreement

For Students 7th - 8th
Perfect for a middle school classroom, this two-page reference guide introduces subject-verb agreement and gives 10 specific explanations and examples. Then, independently, attempt the 15 sentences that follow. Learners must select the...
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Activity
Collaborative Learning Project

Simple to Complex Sentences

For Students 4th - 9th
Such a creative game idea, this activity might actually make grammar fun! Learners play a modified game of connect-four by identifying the grammatical name for different words and phrases and then working them into simple sentences to...
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PPT
Curated OER

Clauses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Look at the basic parts of a sentence with your class. Definitions of the subject, verb, and various clauses are all included. Clear, succinct examples are given in this thorough presentation. A great way to start off grammar with your...
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PPT
Curated OER

Sentence Combination: Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Start by defining preposition. The presentation shows a friendly looking pug as he sits on, inside, and beside objects. Then, look at prepositional phrases and how to use them to combine multiple sentences. A short practice opportunity...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What is a Preposition?

For Students 7th - 9th
Where and when should you use prepositions? A handy worksheet provides examples and instructions about prepositions and prepositional phrases, as well as eight practice sentences. Learners underline the prepositional phrases and circle...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Prepositions Anyone? -- Learning to Use Prepositions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this prepositions worksheet, students read 9 sentences and underline the preposition in each one. Students write 4 original sentences using prepositions to show location, direction, time and a relationship. Students fill in 6 blanks...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry: Metaphor

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the uses of metaphor in poetry. They construct poems demonstrating the correct usage of metaphors.
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Prepositions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a one-page PDF of a list of 48 of the most common prepositions.
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Handout
University of Texas at Austin

Ser and Estar One More Explanation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the tricky grammatical option of the two "to be" verbs, ser and estar. The following situations are discussed: joining two nouns, adjective phrases, and prepositional phrases.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.