Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
Parts of Speech Adverbs: Building Blocks of Grammar
What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb? Encourages scholars to explore the answer to this question while building a foundation of the English language. The lesson comes complete with an attention grabber, notes, and a...
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Theater Lesson: Modify My Action
Young scholars engage in a lesson that is about the meaning of a verb or adverb. They perform sketches with the subject matter of the words. The goal is for the actors to show the meaning of the verb or adverb with an action.
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Circling Adverbs Worksheet
A great way to effectively teach adverbs! Young grammarians circle adverbs in 15 different sentences. Next, they underline the verb that the adverb describes.
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Adjectives, Adverbs and Advertising
Students identify adjectives and adverbs and be able to use them correctly in a Christmas-related creative writing project. They work in pairs to cut out ads from a magazine to classify them as adjectives and adverbs.
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Adverbs and Time Order
In this adverb usage worksheet, students use adverbs to help them write a how-to report. Students complete three activities for adverbs showing time order.
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An Adverb Can Tell When
First, suddenly, always. Adverbs that provide additional information about when an action occurred are the focus of this one-page worksheet.
K12 Reader
Prepositional Phrases II
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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Complex Sentences Made Easy
Take the complexity out of writing complex sentences. Young writers practice taking two ideas and putting them together to make a complex sentence. Create a list of subordinating conjunctions to help each individual make better sentences.
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Transition Words
Translate transition words for your class with this handout and brief exercise. Fairly straightforward and informative, it includes sample sentences and a working link to a more complete list of transition words. There are two different...
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Frequency Adverbs
In this frequency adverbs activity, students review usage, interpret a chart, and rewrite sentences. Students write ten sentence.
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Adverbs
In this adverbs worksheet, students answer short answer questions about adverbs and identify parts of speech in sentences. Students complete 22 problems.
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Conjunctive Adverb Activity
In this conjunctive adverb worksheet, students underline conjunctive adverbs, fill in punctuation for sentences that use conjunctive adverbs, fill in blanks in sentences with conjunctive adverbs and determine whether sentences are...
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Improve Writing
Help your young writers improve their writing skills by showing this great PowerPoint. It includes various tips to improve writing: varying sentence length, beginning with a verb, and lots more! This is a wonderful presentation to show...
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Reduced Time Adverb Clauses
In this grammar learning exercise, students read 5 sentences which show students how to reduce the time adverb clauses. They then read a story and reduce time adverb clauses where possible.
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Adverb Clauses
In this adverb clause worksheet students must fill in the blanks in sentences using the appropriate adverb or adverb clause. Students make their answer selection and receive immediate feedback.
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Collocations--Verbs
In this collocations learning exercise, students choose from a list of twelve adverbs or adverbial phrases to complete twelve sentences grammatically correct.
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Adverb Phrases 1
In this adjective phrase worksheet, students are given sentences with the adverb underlined. Students must determine what type of adverb it is and choose their answer from four possible choices.
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Word BINGO
Practicing sight words is all fun and games with this app! Users hear, read, and spell words off the Dolch Word List. But that's not all! Players also get to create their own avatar, collect BINGO bugs, view their scores, and more within...
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All Right, All Ready...All Together! Grammar Practice
Are you all ready, already? Do your kids confuse all right with alright? All ready with already? All together with altogether? Use this worksheet to clear things up! After defining each term and its homonym, examples are provided that...
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Descriptive Words
Students use descriptive words in writing. In this descriptive words lesson plan, students learn to show instead of tell. Students enter into a discussion of adjectives and adverbs, then add descriptive words to sentences to make vivid...
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Eliminate "To Be" Verbs
Students remove to beverbs from their writing. In this verb usage lesson, students write strategies from eliminating to be verbs, then locate the verbs in their writing and eliminate as many as possible.
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Prepositional Phrases
A thorough grammar activity on prepositional phrases first reviews the definitions and examples of prepositional phrases, adjective phrases, and adverb phrases, before prompting students to apply their knowledge to several different...
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The Verb and Adverb Connection
Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.
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Prepositions
After reviewing the different purposes of prepostions and many examples, the class can practice using them in sentences. While little direction is provided in the plan, this is a fantastic resource for teachers looking for a simple...