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Parts of Speech Adjectives: Building Blocks of Grammar
How do you describe a jellyfish? Individuals write adjectives for Nomura's jellyfish, take notes, and check understanding with a formative assessment. Notes include the definition for adjectives, guiding questions to help writers...
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Thesaurus Power
Give your class the advantage of Thesaurus Power! They will use a thesaurus to understand word meanings and relationships. They focus on how a thesaurus functions and how it gives the entry word, definition, synonyms, antonyms, and part...
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Color the Christmas Adjectives
'Tis the season to be joyful, merry, beautiful, and red! Test young learners' knowledge of parts of speech with a festive coloring worksheet. As they identify which words are nouns and which words are adjectives, they color each part of...
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Pronouns
Pronouns are a very common part of speech. Young readers are exposed to words such as: he, her, I, we, they, and she. They realize that a pronoun can replace the name of a person, or an object. The last slide challenges pupils to work...
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Change the Predicate Adjectives
Review parts of speech and revise writing for clarity with one activity! Elementary grammarians change ten predicate adjectives to attributive adjectives, combining two choppy sentences into one smooth thought.
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Color the Nouns: Tulips
Colorful tulips fill a learning exercise designed to reinforce parts of speech. Scholars identify and color shapes that contain nouns pink.
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Parts of Speech Staircase
Students are introduced to the various parts of speech. Using construction paper, they make their own parts of speech staircase and use markers to write the different parts of speech on different flaps. To end the lesson, they write the...
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Parts of Speech- Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined words in twenty sentences as one of the following parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, conjunction or preposition.
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Parts of Speech Worksheet 2
For this grammar worksheet, students write the appropriate letter in the space provided that identifies the part of speech of the underlined word in twenty sentences.
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Similes
Similes are a great way to get your writers thinking about descriptive details. They read a brief explanation which covers clichés and the general wording of a simile. Then, learners try a few on their own. First, they complete nine...
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Diagramming sentences
In an orderly fashion, go through diagramming sentences with your class. Beginning with a simple sentence and the placement of subject and verb, subsequent slides slowly add on more branches and lines with explanations of sentence types...
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MLK: Complete the Speech
Take a close look at a few paragraphs of Martin Luther King, Jr.s' famous speech, "I Have a Dream." Class members fill in the missing words using the bank of words provided and then respond to a question about the speech and modern day...
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Adverbs
Run quickly. Walk slowly. Jump high. As part of their study of English parts of speech, language learners engage in a series of activities designed to introduce them to the descriptive power of adverbs.
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Parts of Speech
Review advanced grammar concepts with this standard online interactive multiple choice quiz. Young grammarians must know simple grammar principles such as verbs, prepositions and adverbs as well as higher-level knowledge like passive vs....
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Letter Sound and Letter Combination Accuracy: Sound Matching Adjectives
Kindergartenrs explore English by analyzing images in a picture book. This lesson on the parts of speech calls for young learners to view a picture book in class and describe characters, settings and objects with adjectives. Then, as a...
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Linking Verb or Action Verb?
Part of exploring parts of speech is being able to distinguish between linking verbs and action verbs. One implies a stat of being, and one expresses an action. After reviewing the definition briefly, provide your middle schoolers with...
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Contractions
Are you looking for a good presentation on contractions? This one could be for you. Learners are coached on what contractions are and how they are made. Then, in each slide, pupils must identify contractions, and also turn contractions...
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The Direct Object
What exactly is a direct object? Use this resource to introduce direct objects to your middle and early high school classrooms. The section at the top explains the part of speech, and then there are 20 sentences below for learners to...
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Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
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Parts of Speech Nouns: Building Blocks of Grammar
An engaging PowerPoint presentation helps scholars learn the definition of a noun and provides examples of different types of nouns, such as person, place, abstract, and concrete nouns. Formative assessments within the resource check...
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Parts of Speech: Building Good Sentences
Using technology, 3rd graders will complete a reinforcement project to differentiate between nouns (common and proper), verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. Using the teacher-made template, they will create PowerPoint slides on the...
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Parts of Speech Are Fun to Teach to My Friends
Fifth graders will practice the six parts of speech. They will also create a storyboard about one part of speech. The project will create ownership of the knowledge because of the freedom to do one's own assignment.
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The Parts of Speech: Adjectives
Are your pupils confused by proper adjectives? Provide them with extra practice identifying, not only the proper adjective, but the noun being modified as well.
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The Parts of Speech
Identify action verbs and decide whether they are transitive or intransitive. After labeling fourteen sentences and their verbs, learners move on to distinguish action verbs from linking verbs in twenty additional sentences. The...