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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
What is the passive voice? What is the active voice? Which voice is typically preferred in writing? Use this instructional activity to discuss the different voices. Then, have learners rewrite a series of sentences so that they are in...
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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...
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A Nice Story
Explore word choice in writing. Your class listens to a short story entitled "A Nice Day" (included) and discusses how the story could be improved. Pupils replace the word nice throughout the story with various synonyms, then reread the...
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Coordinating Conjunctions Test
This interactive online instructional activity/quiz requires that learners identify the coordinating conjunction in each of 14 sentences. Type them in the box at the end of each sentence. Click a button to get instant feedback. Not much...
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Comparison of Adjectives
Here is a colorful, cute worksheet to provide your emerging readers with practice understanding and using comparative and superlative adjectives. They fill in cartoon train cars with each form for five adjectives, and underline the form...
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Correlative Conjunctions
Learners choose the better of two options to complete 10 sentences; they must choose the singular or plural form of the verb to match the compound subject, whether the nouns are connected by and or by neither/nor. They identify the words...
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Do you say it this way?
Whether your pupils are young native English speakers, or learning English as a second language, subject-verb inconsistencies are common. Twenty slides are provided in this presentation to help explain this grammar issue. The first six...
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English Exercises: Present Simple Exercises
To practice using present simple verb forms, your young grammarians complete 24 sentences using has and have with an online interactive instructional activity. They use a drop down menu in each sentence to choose their answer before...
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Past Simple Tense
A variety of fun little practice exercises using the past tense of both regular and irregular verbs is what you'll find here. Learners type the past form of 10 regular verbs, complete an easy crossword by putting the past form of 10...
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Regular or Irregular: Two Kinds of Verbs
The two kinds of verbs, regular and irregular, are the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a thorough, two-page description of both types, young grammarians fill in the present tense verb given the simple past and past...
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Irregular Verbs
Divided into two 10-question exercises, this worksheet provides practice with irregular verbs in the simple past tense. Ten present-tense, monosyllabic verbs are given in a word bank; learners write the past tense form in a blank in each...
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Irregular and Helping Verbs
Irregular verbs are highlighted in this interactive presentation. In each slide, students are given a verb, such as drive. They must then come up with the present, past, and past participle of the word. In this case, drive, drove, and...
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Singular and Plural Nouns
A grammar PowerPoint presentation lists rules about changing singular nouns into plural nouns. It identifies what to do with regular nouns (-s, -es, -ies, -ves) to make them plural, that some nouns change internally when becoming plural...
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Singular and Plural Nouns
Young writers pen the plural version of 40 nouns on blank lines next to the singular version in a straightforward worksheet. The type and blank lines are small, so I'd enlarge it to make it more friendly to children's small hands. You...
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Grammar: Plurals
Teach your class how to turn a singular noun into a plural noun with this informative PowerPoint. The presentation uses fantastic images to illustrate what a plural noun signifies. It also includes great explanations.
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Subjects and Predicates
Get ready for some laughs with subjects and predicates! These worksheets feature nine sentence frames each, half in need of a subject and half a predicate. A word bank holds phrases students can use to complete these sentences, and there...
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Build a Connection
Learners discuss their personal connections with stories they've read in the past and identify techniques to connect with more stories. They create illustrations, construct task cards, and complete sentence stems based on books they read...
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Rewriting a Dialogue (removing quotes)
This is a great activity! Upper elementary learners read a dialogue-driven passage. Then, they rewrite lines of dialogue by removing the quotation marks and shifting the verb tense to past. Grammar and great writing skills all in one. An...
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What's in Front?
Front and back are common prepositions. Early readers will practice understanding relative positions while using common prepositions by placing a check next to objects in front. Then they draw a cat in front of the house. Tip: Discuss...
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Punctuation: Quotation Marks, Question Marks, and Exclamation Marks
There are four children pictured, each is saying a different phrase. It's up to you and your first graders to complete each phrase by adding proper punctuation. Read the dialogue-driven passage, then read what each child is saying,...
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War Poetry, Journals and Letters: Viet Nam
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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Conjunctions Worksheet
Help your early elementary learners write complex or compound sentences using conjunctions. They use the listed conjunctions to combine five different sentences. They then use the space provided to compose a complex sentence of their own.
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Worksheet 7: Vocabulary Practice
This worksheet, appropriate for upper elementary and middle school, has learners identify the meaning of words in context. They distinguish between different shades of meaning. The worksheet has seven multiple choice questions.
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Checking Grammar: Accuracy
Get young writers in the practice of editing their work using this punctuation and grammar worksheet. They first read eight sentences with grammar issues, rewriting or checking off as correct. The sentence errors involve subject-verb...