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The Scoop on Summer
Third graders write a noun that names a place they spent their summer vacation, a verb telling one activity they did, and use those words to write a complete sentence. Finally, they use an ice cream cone graphic organizer as a guide to...
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Appetizing Adverbs
Have your class construct an adverb wheel. Learners brainstorm adverbs to modify the verbs they use to describe how they will eat a doughnut hole. They then use the wheel to help them write creative sentences.
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What's Going On? -- Present Progressive in Photos
Magazine photos of people in action provide opportunities for beginning and intermediate English learners to employ the present progressive (continuous) verb tense. Partners describe what people are doing and share their sentences with...
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Dialogue Tags
Use a presentation on dialogue tags in a narrative writing unit or a literature lesson. The first two pages of the resource detail the information and examples in the following slide show, making it a good reference page for your...
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Verbage!
Students play a game wherein they act out verbs and adverbs in a sentence. They read a sentence, define the verb to a partner and move from one end of the play area to the other doing the action in the sentence. They grab another...
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The Imperfect
Students practice the concept of the other past tense, the imperfect via the provided worksheet and the suggested web site.
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How Characters Get What They Want
Sixth graders analyze the primary force that drives a character's actions in a character analysis lesson. In this character analysis lesson, 6th graders analyze how characters present their actions and participate in a group activity...
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Present Continuous
In this present continuous worksheet, students view examples of how to put the subject of their sentences into present continuous form with the form to be and ing. Click on "Continue with Exercise" at the bottom of the page to see actual...
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Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice
In this active voice and passive voice practice worksheet, pupils read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 5 questions that require them to identify the voice the sentences are written in and rewrite them in the opposite voice.
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Reading Fiction: Analyzing Sentences
Students investigate sentence construction in fiction. In this sentence construction instructional activity, students examine examples of fiction work and discover why sentences are a certain length. Students create their own passages...
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States of Being
Use this with your English language learners or your English grammar classes. Bring your class to the computer lab, and access this website. First they read about the states of being and some common mistakes. Then they complete a short...
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Picture Perfect Parts of Speech
Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech instructional activity, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech.
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Adverbs
Fifth graders complete a worksheet where they must fill in the blanks with the correct adverb. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders learn all about adverbs and when and where to use them. Students cut action pictures out of a...
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Show! Don't Tell!
Young scholars write a descriptive paragraph. For this writing lesson, students define elaboration and discuss the characteristics of an elaborate paragraph. Young scholars write a paragraph that contains vivid adjectives, strong verbs...
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Comic Book Project
Students write a fictional story into a comic book format. In this creative writing instructional activity, students analyze example comics and discuss the format. Students create a comic book using imaginary characters that find a...
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Learning About Sentence Structure
What does a sentence need? A subject and a verb, and some adverbs and adjectives to make it more interesting! After examining sentence structure together, class members can practice adding adverbs and adjectives to short sentences...
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Parts of Speech Museum
Young scholars apply their knowledge of the basic parts of speech while studying them. They create display boards that show visual and written examples of the different parts of speech. The museum consists of project boards with pictures...
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Adverbs and Adverb Phrases
Fourth graders explore adverbs and adverb phrases. They practice writing adverb phrases describing the action in a selected sports picture. Students discuss the definition of adverbs and adverb phrases. They practice writing several...
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The Preterite vs. the Imperfect
High schoolers write their own original studenT story in the past in Spanish using the imperfect and the preterite after watching the teacher present the provided Power Point presentation on the differences in the uses of the two.
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
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Spelling Words Puzzle II
Young scholars receive instruction using examples to find missing letters in their spelling words. They fill in the blanks of each spelling word choosing from a list of animal names provided.
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Irish Eyes: Taking a Look at Local Landscape
Young scholars create landscape flyers of local landscapes using digital photography, educational software, and examples of Irish landscapes. This creative-project lesson lasts two weeks, including class time spent collecting photographs...
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Aggravating Adverbs Too
Fourth graders explore how to use the correct forms of adverbs to compare actions.
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Lesson Two: Writing Letters in Code
Combine your friendly letter instructional activity, grammar instructional activity, and technology instructional activity with this fun activity! Young writers compose letters to friends, and then convert the text to Webdings font....