Curated OER
This Land is Your Land
Students use a popular American song to learn the past and present continuous tenses. They complete a web quest about the song "This Land is Your Land" and discuss it.
Curated OER
Pizzazz!...Basket Stories
Students discuss the use of connectors and sequence words. They discuss common story endings and beginnings. Students brainstorm ideas for a creative story and compose a story for the rest of the class.
Curated OER
Nate the Great: Write Your Own Mystery
In this Nate the Great writing activity worksheet, students fill in the 26 blanks in "The Case of the Missing Book" with noun, adjective, and adverbs to create their own mystery.
Curated OER
ABC Book of Tongue Twisters
Students construct sentences using alliteration. In this phonemic awareness lesson, students listen to a read aloud such as Some Smug Slug and identify alliteration. Students write their own sentences using alliteration.
Curated OER
Worksheet: Azar: Understanding and Using English Grammar, Chart 11-8
In this past or present participial worksheet, students use the present or past participial form of the word given in parentheses depending on the meaning of the ten sentence.
Curated OER
Parts of Speech: Nouns
Second graders discuss nouns. In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders discuss nouns and pronouns. Students identify various types of nouns on a worksheet. Students play "Popcorn" Nouns.
Curated OER
Students Get Animated: Make Existing Lessons Move and Motivate Students
Students study the chemical elements in a computer generated cartoon format. In this computer animation and chemistry lesson, students learn how to animate using computer programs. Students use animation to learn about the Periodic Table...
Curated OER
Martha, My Dear: A Lesson About Imperatives
In this song lesson activity, learners learn about the song Martha, My Dear by The Beatles. Teachers explain the song background and the grammar in the song. The class answers 6 questions while listening to the song and after listening...
Curated OER
Prepositions of Time--For, During, While
In this prepositions of time worksheet, students discover the rules for using the prepositions "for," "during," and "while."
Curated OER
Understanding Predicates
High schoolers identify predicates in a sentence. In this grammar activity, students highlight the subject and predicate in various sentences. High schoolers examine the various types of predicates and practice identifying them in a...
Curated OER
Present Progressive
Students use the present progressive to describe what they're doing at a specific moment in time.
Curated OER
Understanding Simple and Complete Predicates
Students study simple and complete predicates. They explore the simple and complete predicates in a variety of sentences. Students identify both simple and complete predicates. They use simple and complete predicates correctly in their...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Action Verb
Notes and examples of action verbs and how they are used within a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Uses of Verbs
This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Action Words Are Verbs
This activity challenges students to identify action words as verbs. The students will go on a verb scavenger hunt and play charades using action words. They will also utilize the Internet to reinforce what they have learned by playing...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verbs: Action Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students describe what is happening in each image and write a corresponding verb on the board under the image.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbs
This entry focuses on types of verbs and their functions including action, auxiliary, linking, regular and irregular, transitive and intransitive, and indicative, imperative, and subjunctive mood. It explains and provides examples of each.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Compound Verb
This site shows how a sentence can have more than one verb. The examples begin with one verb and then builds until the sentence has seven verbs.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite Tense Regular Verbs
Excellent examples of the preterite tense for regular verbs. You can also generate a quiz where you can select 10 to 25 sample questions to help test your knowledge of regular verb conjugations in the preterite tense.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Zoo Sentences
In this lesson, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verbs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will define the terms verb, linking verb, action verb, helping verb, being verb, irregular verb, and verb tense and provide examples of each type of verb. They also will identify and classify...
Other
Preterito Imperfecto
A detailed look at the conditions of when to use the preterite versus the imperfect. Outstanding explanations, even though some may prove too detailed for many high school students. Excellent examples compare the use of the preterite and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences
In this lesson plan, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson plan. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson plan. Students will develop...