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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Superheroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, SuperHero ABC, a book written by Bob McLeod, and Meanwhile, a book by Jules Feiffer, are used as mentor texts. Students will work in groups and create lists of unique superhero powers that start with different letters of...
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English Zone

English Zone: The Amazing Vocabulary Machine!: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This vocabulary building resource provides a practice quiz on changing adjectives to adverbs. It offers a 40 word list and instant feedback after each answer.
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Better English Lessons

Better English: Adverbs and Adjectives Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose the right word using an adjective or adverb from a provided drop down list. Check your answers by clicking on the box at the bottom of the page.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...
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Better English Lessons

Better English: Adjectives With Ing and Ed

For Students 9th - 10th
A quiz on adjectives with -ing and -ed endings is to be found at this site. Choose the right word from the drop down list provided. Check your answers by clicking on the box at the bottom of the page.
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University of Calgary

Univ. Of Calgary: Parts of Speech: Personal, Possessive & Indefinite Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Defines and lists indefinite pronouns. Distinquishes between indefinite pronouns and indefinite adjectives.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on the rules for capitalizing proper nouns. It defines proper nouns and lists rules for capitalizing family relationships, names, titles, derivatives of proper nouns, months, holidays, countries, and languages.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech using 6 slideshow presentations. The first lists the 8 parts of speech and their functions; the next five discuss nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions individually. These...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plan for Kids

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This article explains what adjectives do, the questions they answer, and provides examples. It also provides a list of links to websites where adjective lesson plans, worksheets, and activities can be found.
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Language Guide

Language Guide: Los Adjetivos Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This grammar tutorial is more hands-on practice and less explanation than part I. The introductory page has a large list of new adjective vocabulary with audio, and links to practice quizzes. The quizzes are self-tests where students...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Adjective or Adverb Exercise #1

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of exercises to help you learn when to use an adjective and when to use an adverb.
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word of the Day

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Links to seventeen different word lists under the following categories: common words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and interjections.
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Organization for Community Networks

Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow young scholars to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Fantastic Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Students have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.
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Other

Sil: Glossary of Linguistic Terms: Predicate Noun

For Students 9th - 10th
This site briefly defines the predicate noun, provides an example, and lists several sources.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Qualifiers: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow define qualifiers (absolute and relative) and provides examples of how they establish levels of increased, decreased intensity or value. This lesson is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Qualifiers."
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Using Hyphens

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Do you know when to use hyphens? Here's a resource that lists when to use hyphens in adjectives, in compound numbers, after prefixes, and in between line breaks with examples of each.
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Other

Maria Ortega Garcia: Describing Personality

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will learn Spanish terms associated with personality. Maria Ortega Garcia, a Spanish teacher, provides a video tutorial [05:15] with explanations that highlight Spanish adjectives. A comprehensive list of Spanish adjectives is...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Danger! Shark!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will learn the story of young Brook Watson who lost his leg to a shark attack. By re-enacting the stances and feelings of his rescuers, they will come up with a list of adjectives to create a class definition of a hero/heroine....
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Relative Clause

For Students 9th - 10th
The section of this site dedicated to the relative clause provides the user with skills to be able to recognize relative clauses through a list of relative pronouns and relative adjectives along with sample sentences and examples.
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Lingolex

Lingolex.com: Free Resources for Learning Spanish

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete guide to Spanish which contains mostly lists of vocabulary words and phrases covering topics such as Christmas vocabulary, adjectives that describe personality, prepositions of location, common proverbs and more.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Kindergarten Opposites Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.