Students explore the benefits and joys of reading. They review the reading comprehension strategy cross-checking. They then are introduced to the library and are encouraged to check out an independent book they would independently...

Students practice reading different materials to increase their fluency. Individually, they are given a race car and they move their car forward depending how well they have read different excerpts. To end the lesson, they take time...

First graders discover where penguins live, what they look like, what kinds of food they eat, and other interesting facts. They communicate statements of information through the composition of a one paragraph summary about a penguin.

In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders practice using verbs and choose the past progressive form. This is very effective for test preparation.

Students discuss and analyze the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms from a clear context and develop the skill of noticing word stress, weak forms of auxiliaries.

A twelve-slide presentation explaining run-on sentences and comma splices and providing five solutions to correcting these sentence errors.

An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.

A practice exercise with ten questions. Each question has three sentences and students are asked to choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked when finished, and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.

A ten-question practice exercise where students look at a set of three sentences and then choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.

A variety of presentation formats including notes, a PowerPoint presentation, activities, and a video [4:52] defining run-on sentences and comma splices and explaining different ways of correcting them.

An exercise with ten sentences to help students identify and correct run-on sentences. Students read the sentence and then click on the answer choice that corrects any errors in the sentence. After making their choice, students can see...

Clear up the confusion of troublesome verbs with this interactive Language Arts skill-building site. Students' engage in quizzes that tackle grammar usage and the confusing verbs. Students' select the correct verb for each sentence. (is,...

This website presents a series of conversations where each sentence has a grammar usage drop down menu. You pick the correct word for that sentence. If you are incorrect you are given a second chance to correct your mistake!

This reading game offers young readers the opportunity to correct a sentence and clean up trash on the seashore. They are to click and drag words in the correct order into a sentence so that it makes sense. Then they are to drag a piece...

Students will choose which, if any, of a list of sentences is punctuated correctly or incorrectly. When students select an answer, a pop-up box appears with feedback including the answer and explanation. Java is required.

Notice spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and usage errors in the underlined portion of twenty-five sentences, and choose the answer that corrects any mistakes. A percentage score is kept throughout the exercise and displayed at the...

Students engaging in these 14 word choice exercises will improve their word usage skills. Topics include spelling mistakes, sound alike words and word confusion. Select the correct word usage for each sentence.

A lesson plan using a word processor to correct common grammar mistakes.

This page focuses on correcting mistakes in parallel structure when using the word "than" in a comparison. It also covers how to correct the parallelism.