Novelinks
The View From Saturday: Concept/Vocabulary Analysis
Design your unit on The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg with a concept and vocabulary analysis resource. It outlines the plot, literary elements, vocabulary issues, and any possible considerations for planning a differentiated...
Office of Migrant Education
Poetry: Form, Syllables, Mood, and Tone
Looking for a resource to introduce homeschoolers and other out-of-class learners to the elements of poetry? Check out this packet that defines and illustrates important poetry terms.
Curated OER
My Antonia: Concept Analysis
Use this analysis of My Antonia to help inform your instruction and prepare your pupils for the project and enrichment ideas listed at the end of the resource. The analysis covers big questions related to the text, themes, plot elements,...
Novelinks
The Winter’s Tale: Concept Analysis
A comedy? A romance? A little of both? Shakespeare's The Winter Tale is the focus of an overview appropriate for those who are considering using the play for the first time.
Novelinks
The Wednesday Wars: Concept Analysis
The Wednesday Wars is the focus of this resource designed for first-time teachers of Gary Schmidt's Newbery Award winning novel.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Periods
An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abbreviations
A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Progressive Form of Verbs
Information and examples of progressive, stative, and dynamic verb usage in the English language.
University College London
University College London: Survey of English Usage: Verbs Tense & Aspect
This site has information on the tense and aspect of verbs. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
University College London
University College London: Noun Overview and Rules
Overview of nouns and rules for use. Contains information on forming plurals, count and noncount, pronouns, numerals as nouns, and gender. Exercises interspersed in material.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Parentheses and Rules for Use
This site contains information regarding the correct usage of parentheses in original material and in quoted material. Examples are included for all points discussed.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Reference
Site provides links to a wide variety of reference tools, including encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, quotation books, and guides to English usage. L.11-12.1b Usage issues
University College London
University College London: Subject and Predicate
The Survey of English Usage provides explanations and examples for the subject and the predicate.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Bad or Badly
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "bad" and "badly" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Errors in English: Good or Well
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the difference in usage between "good" and "well" in sentences. Numerous examples are provided in this resource.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Adjectives and Adverbs
This is a basic explanation of adjectives & adverbs, with examples of each. This resource explains how to change adjectives into adverbs through interactive exercises (with hints and answers).
University College London
University College London: Attributive and Predicative Adjectives
This University College London site provides an advanced grammar lesson on adjectives (attributive, postpositive, and predicate adjectives), and includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Standard English Conventions
On the SAT Writing & Language Test, you will encounter questions that will ask you to interact with and revise passages in different ways. Standard English Conventions questions ask you to make sentences consistent with standard...
Other
Center for Communication Practices: Polytechnic Institute: Article Usage [Pdf]
The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute provides this detailed handout, with exercises included, to help non-native speakers of English sort out the proper use of articles. The site includes study and learning hints,...
Other
Using English: English Language Quizzes
Over 200 short self-quizzes for English learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Quizzes span topics including spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
Other
Georgia Perimeter College: Learning and Tutoring Center: Communications Handouts
This index provides links to educational resources on various English topics. Some topics included are related to punctuation, parts of speech, usage, different types of writing, and analytical questions for various genres of literature.
English Plus+
English Plus: Grammar Slammar!
An easy-to-use grammar resource containing rules for style, usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, and letter writing. This site also includes a glossary of common grammatical mistakes.