Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parts of Speech
On this site a learner can click through a slide presentation for the definition and examples of each of the eight parts of speech, and read a poem to increase memory and understanding. Then view a series of video lessons on nouns...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives
This screencast lesson focuses on adjectives including definition, what they do in a sentence, why they are important, and examples. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Articles
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 52 secs] introducing articles and their proper usage and providing examples of articles functioning within sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives 2
This lesson focuses on adjectives and the rules for changing them to comparative and superlative forms. It offers textual information about adjectives and practice adding them to sentences. It also provides two YouTube videos: the first...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clauses
This slideshow lesson focuses on clauses; it defines the term and the two main types: independent and dependent. It lists the two types of dependent clauses: adjective and adverb; it provides examples of each, explains how to identify...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinate Conjunctions
This video lesson focuses on subordinate conjunctions; it defines them and related terms such as dependent and independent clauses, provides a list of common subordinate conjunctions, and examples of their use. It also covers how to...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Adjectives Part I
This first lesson on Spanish adjectives explains the concept of adjectives and introduces noun-adjective agreement for adjectives that end in "o", "e", or a consonant. The explanation is thorough and easy to understand, with ample...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Participle
This is an excellent grammar lesson on the past participle for regular and irregular verbs, including a few compound verbs. It also explains how the participle can play the role of the passive voice and the adjective. The tutorial...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas and Non Restrictive Elements
This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas and Non Restrictive Elements: Thumbs Up Work
This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs
This lesson goes over the difference between adjectives and adverbs. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Other
Daily Grammar: Glossary of Grammar Terms
A succinct overview of basic grammar terms with links to lessons; written by a high school English teacher.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Variety: Sentence Structure
This slideshow lesson discusses how to use variation in sentence structure to produce more effective writing.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Adjectives and Adverbs
This lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs including their functions, differences, and common mistakes. It provides six videos to aid understanding, several short practice activities, and a self-check.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Unnecessay Modifiers
This slideshow lesson focuses on identifying unnecessary modifiers and removing them from your writing. Rule of thumb: if the adjective does not tell the reader something the noun absolutely cannot, eliminate it. It provides student...
Other
Abrams Books: Picture Day Perfection: A Common Core State Standards Aligned
This activity and discussion guide uses the book "Picture Day Perfect" to teach multiple common core state standards for language arts. Included in this lesson are discussion questions, a craft project, printable worksheets, and an...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems With Basic Parts of Speech
Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Articles, Determiners and Quantifiers
Have you ever wondered about the purpose of such small words as a, this, the and the like? These words are articles, determiners and quantifiers that precede and modify nouns.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
TES Global
Blendspace: Copy of Parts of Speech
A learning module with thirteen links to videos and activities to use while learning the eight parts of speech.
TES Global
Blendspace: Adjectives
A nine-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while learning about adjectives.
TES Global
Blendspace: Adjectives
An eight-part learning module with links to images and videos about adjectives.
TES Global
Blendspace: Ordering Adjectives
A learning module with twenty-four links to images, videos, and web sites to help students learn how to put adjectives in the proper order within sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.