University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Forms of Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives
Basic information and a follow-up exercise about possessive pronouns and adjectives. Color-coded examples are provided for easy understanding.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Inferences Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about making inferences. Worksheets are provided to reinforce the skill of making inferences. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
Other
Rhl School: Reading Comprehension: Using Inference
A good warm-up/introduction activity for a unit on inferences. This is a simple exercise to help teachers assess prior knowledge.
Other
Carson Newman Univ.: Punctuating Titles: Italics, Underlining, Quotation Marks
Learn the rules for punctuating and capitalizing different types of titles in this PowerPoint.
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum: Feathered Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Root Words [Pdf]
Go to page 7 of this teacher's guide to find dinosaur root words. These can be used to make flashcards. Many of these roots are found in English words. Choose some of these root words and identify at least one corresponding English word.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Commas After Introductions Exercise 3
This resource provides practice with writing and punctuating sentences with introductory elements.
Other
Boggle's World: Creative Writing Worksheets
A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Punctuating With Parentheses
Here's a great tutorial that explains when to put commas inside or outside the parentheses. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Personal Pronouns
In this learning module, students read about the difference between the subject and object form of personal pronouns and test their knowledge in practice exercises.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Noun/pronoun Agreement: Exercise 1
Students select the correct pronoun to match the given noun in a 20-question exercise.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: How to Listen Better
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
Other
Grammar Book: Parentheses and Brackets
Included on this site are three rules for correct usage of parentheses, along with examples for all of the rules, and a quiz.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Explaining Relationships
An interactive activity that practices determining relationships between events and concepts.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini Lesson
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to apply Freytag's Pyramid (also known as Freytag's Triangle) to pieces of writing, oral storytelling, and television shows. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
PBS
Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Training for the Presidency [Pdf]
"Training for the Presidency" is a one-page, fictional, reading passage about Abraham Lincoln as a child. He does chores for a farmer because the book he had borrowed from him had gotten wet when rain came through the cabin walls. It is...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Using Commas in a Series
In this learning module, students read about the rules for using commas to divide nouns, verbs, and adjectives when the words are written in a series. They insert commas in a practice exercise with 25 questions and receive immediate...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Figurative Language With Casey at Bat
In this lesson, 5th graders learn how to analyze figurative language in the poem, "Casey At The Bat."
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Lesson: Reading Outside of Class
For this lesson, a teacher describes the steps being taken to encourage students to become independent readers outside class time.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Lesson: Compare and Contrast
In this instructional activity, 5th graders are asked to compare the similarities and differences between two fables, "The Three Questions" and "Fu Finds the Way." Examples of students' Venn diagrams are provided.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Lesson: A Picture Says a Thousand Words
The objective of this lesson plan is for students to understand how an author uses language and illustrations to influence the way readers think and feel about characters and events in a story. Students are asked to evaluate the...
Other
Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]
A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...