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Synonyms and Antonyms
In this grammar instructional activity, students learn about synonyms and antonyms. They then use what they learned to answer 30 questions. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Advertising Adjectives
Students create advertisements using comparative adjectives. In this grammar instructional activity, students brainstorm various products for which they would like to create an advertising campaign. Students use comparative adjectives in...
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Pendemonium Unnatural Selection: Quotation Marks
Students practice the correct use of quotation marks. In this grammar lesson, students watch and then discuss a video on the use of quotation marks. Students find examples of quotation marks in books and periodicals and then convert...
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Colons
Clarify colon misconceptions with this explanatory handout. Get into the nitty-gritty of grammar with multiple examples of the proper use of the colon. While this isn't an interactive handout, it could be used as a grammar guide for your...
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The Participial Phrase
Need a review practice exercise for participial phrases? The assumption here is that young grammarians are already familiar with the grammar principles and terms and are ready to show their understanding of participial phrases, and for...
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Sentence Structure: Avoiding Choppy, Run-on, and Stringy Sentences
Use this as a reference sheet for peer- or self-editing, or as a guide when teaching sentence structure. Defines and gives examples of choppy, run-on, and stringy sentences, and provides corrected versions of each. Check revised examples...
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Eliminating Wordiness
Why use 50 words when 15 gets the same point across? Use an online interactive webpage to fine tune the writing skills of your middle schoolers. As they read 10 sentences, they eliminate as many words as possible...
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Review of Mechanics: On-line Quiz
In this language mechanics worksheet, middle schoolers complete a nine question multiple choice on-line quiz. Included are questions on capitalization, grammar, punctuation and word use.
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Less vs. Fewer
When should you use less, and when should you use fewer? Straighten out this dilemma with a helpful resource about using less vs. fewer based on sentence context clues. After reading detailed instructions and examples, young learners...
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Worksheet 2: Lay vs. Lie
Review some commonly confused words with your middle schoolers. With this two-page worksheet, they review lay and lie. With each sentence provided, they must choose which one of the target words would best complete the sentence. Then,...
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Excessive Nominalizations
Eliminate unnecessary nominalizations from your middle schoolers' writing! After reviewing a reference page for the -tion ending (and when it can be excessive in writing), students rewrite eight sentences to change nominalizations to a...
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Sequence of Tense
For this grammar worksheet, students read about the six basic tenses. The tenses include simple present, present perfect, simple past, past perfect, future, and future perfect.
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Correct Uses of the Verb "Be"
Useful for an intermediate to advanced ESL class, as well as a standard Language Arts class, this grammar presentation guides learners through the forms of "be." Slides detailing the present tense singular and plural, as well as past...
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Diagramming sentences
In an orderly fashion, go through diagramming sentences with your class. Beginning with a simple sentence and the placement of subject and verb, subsequent slides slowly add on more branches and lines with explanations of sentence types...
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Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements
What sets this activity apart are the clear, concise explanations for some rather complex grammatical terms. Object complements, subject complements, transitive and intransitive verbs, and direct and indirect objects are all carefully...
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Sentence Fragments
As middle and high schoolers experiment with their writing styles, it's easy to slip in a few accidental sentence fragments. After reading a full-page of information regarding how to identify and avoid sentence fragments, learners...
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Active and Passive Voice Worksheet 2
How are active and passive sentences constructed? After introducing your intermediate writers to each and providing examples, complete this two-page worksheet. Your writers take the sentences written and transform them from active to...
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Strong Verbs
Add interest to your class's writing by having them focus on strong verbs. Using this worksheet, first have them identify all of the main verbs in each sentence. Then, have them rewrite each sentence using a stronger verb. Practice often...
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Parallelism Worksheet #2
Parallel structure is tricky, even for many adults! Give your class extra practice with this two-page resource. For each of 16 sentences, they rewrite it using parallel structure. Do an example or two with them to give them confidence...
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Word Order
In this online grammar instructional activity, students practice words order. Students read the words in the examples and correct the word order to make complete sentences.
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Count and Non-Count Nouns
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students compose sentences by selecting words or phrases from multiple suggestions in 4 columns. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Already/Yet
In this already and yet worksheet, students complete the sentences with the correct grammar usage of phrases with already and yet about expecting a baby. Students complete 10 sentences.
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What's in a Sentence? Getting to Know the Parts of Speech
What a kick! After examining the definitions and looking at examples of the different parts of speech, partners work together on a retelling of a famous nursery rhyme. For each sentence, they must select a word that matches the part of...
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Parallelism, Including Correlative Conjunctions and Comparisons
After reading the first reference page about parallel structure using correlative conjunctions, young learners rewrite nine sentences with errors in parallelism. Even the strongest writers in your language arts class could benefit from...
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