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Using Connectors: Too and Either
In this using connectors: too and either learning exercise, students read the explanations and examples of the two words, then interactively complete 20 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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English Exercises: Schoolhouse Rock
"Conjunction, junction, what's your function?" The lyrics to the classic Schoolhouse Rock episode "Conjunction Junction" accompany what was once a link to the video. Video has been "removed by the user," but it would be a snap to find...
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Narrative Writing Unit
Each one of the learners in your class has a story to tell, so help them learn the most efficient and organized way to tell their tale. A thorough unit on narrative writing addresses the writing process, grammar, story structure,...
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Sentence Styles: Lesson Ten
For a basic overview of phrases (prepositional, absolute, appositive, and participial), use this presentation in your grammar unit. Each slide contains a short explanation and an example, concluding with a slide about relative clauses....
Road to Grammar
Shopping
Talk about what you bought last weekend with plenty of activities centered around the theme of shopping. English language learners have the opportunity to listen, speak, write, and read over the course of these exercises. The resource...
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Cause-Effect Facts and Predictions
In this cause and effect worksheet, students choose the correct words to complete the sentences about facts and predictions of cause and effect relationships. Students complete 21 sentences.
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And so/too: shortening a repeated verb in a joined clause
In this and so, and too, and but activity, students complete sentences with phrases beginning with and so, and too, and but. Students complete 20 sentences total.
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Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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Extra Practice--Reductions
This learning exercise provides an explanation of how to reduce or shorten time adverb clauses, cause/effect adverb clauses, and adjective clauses. After the explanation, students have an opportunity to practice reducing each type of...
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Because Phrases
In this because clauses activity, students choose the best way to shorten a because clause from the options provided. Students complete 10 sentences.
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"So" phrases
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete sentences with phrases with the word "so" in them. Students complete 20 sentences.
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So that/ such that: emphasizing qualities and characteristics
In this qualities and characteristics worksheet, students complete sentences with phrases starting with so that or such that while expressing qualities and characteristics. Students complete 10 problems.
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Reducing Adjective Clauses Part 2
In this reducing adjective clauses part 2 worksheet, students read the explanation for shortening a relative (adjective) clause with an active voice verb, then interactively completes 10 sentences by reducing the modifying clause to a...
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Spanish Punctuation & Capitalization
Grammar rules in all languages, but that doesn't mean it's the same from English to Spanish. This informational webpage describes the similarities and differences between English and Spanish for the following: periods, commas, question...
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Sentence Variety and Modifier Placement
In this sentence variety instructional activity, students learn that modifier placement can make sentences more interesting. Students read 10 sentences and add an initial, mid-sentence or terminal modifier as directed. This is an on-line...
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Reduction of Adverb Clauses of Time
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about reducing adverb clauses to adverbial phrases. They then rewrite 4 sentences using what they just learned.
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Review Table: Azar: Understanding and Using English Grammar, Chapters 17, 19
In this grammar review activity, students read through a review table that explains adverb clause words, transitions, connecting words and prepositions.
Mr. Ambrose
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...
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Reduction of Adverbs Clauses of Reason and Contrast: Worksheet #2
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about reducing adverb clauses to adverbial phrases. They then rewrite 3 sentences on their own using the information they learned.
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Joining Phrases and Clauses
In this interactive punctuation worksheet, students select the best word that joins together the ten given sentences. There is an answer sheet with this online worksheet.
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Sentence Problems
Writing is tough to perfect. Help your class improve their writing skills by studying different sentence problems. This reference guide covers sentence fragments, run-ons, and misplaced modifiers, but that's just to start! There's a...
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A Mini lesson on Semicolons
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" serves as an exemplar for a mini-lesson on semicolons. Working alone or in small groups, class members first circle all the semicolons in the letter, and then consider how this...
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Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced modifiers can alter the meaning of a sentence, and take away from a writer's intended message. Use the reference sheet and activity to show middle schoolers how to edit confusing sentences with misplaced modifiers. A great...