Eliminate unnecessary nominalizations from your middle schoolers' writing! After reviewing a reference page for the -tion ending (and when it can be excessive in writing), students rewrite eight sentences to change nominalizations to a...

Dave Carpenter, a reporter for the Washington Post, calls excessive nominalization “verbal gunk” or “the cliché-thick murk of corporatespeak.” Give your young grammarians practice thawing verbs frozen in abstract nouns with an exercise...

Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...

Students study what it means to be good citizens. In this government lesson, students nominate a classmate for being a good citizen and write a persuasive letter to the principal persuading the principal to make that person the citizen...

Students distinguish between passive voice and nomialization.

In this nominative and objective pronouns worksheet, learners read the rules for using "who" and "whom". Students read ten sentences and indicate which word is correct for each.

This online multiple choice quiz focuses on upper-level grammar concepts. In addition to covering simple parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, this resource also covers more advanced information, such as transitive vs....

Learners examine the oscars and the nomination process. They practice using new vocabulary words associated with the event. In groups, they match the vocabulary with the definitions.

Follow-up a lesson on nominative and predicate pronouns with a worksheet that provides practice for your young grammarians. Although the worksheet begins with definitions and examples, the explanations might confuse some of your learners...

In this pronouns worksheet, young scholars learn to recognize nominative or objective pronouns. Students read ten sentences and write every pronoun they see in each.

In this expository writing practice worksheet, students explain three reasons why the person they nominate to be placed on a stamp should be selected. Students write 1 expository essay.

Learners research and American author and nominate them for an award. They determine significant accomplishments of their author's career and life. They access the Biography Resource Center and research their author.

5 Broken Cameras, the award-winning documentary nominated for a 2013 Academy Award and winner of the Sundance 2012 Directors Award is the focus of a resource packet that includes a lesson plan, discussion guide, reading lists, background...

Students create a Hall of Fame. They discuss and study established Hall of Fames such as baseball. They participate in mock nominating and voting process for the hall of fame.

Students visit links about Utah's Beehive Award. They investigate which books received nominations and read reviews about them. They explore other sites to participate in various games and activities.

Students review letter writing skills and the use of descriptive language, and practice writing persuasive letters, with help from teacher and peers. Letters are then written to nominate friend for Friend of the Year.

Use the Schoolhouse Rock episode, "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla," to introduce a study of pronouns. Learners consider antecedents, cases (nominative, objective and possessive), as well as types of pronouns, and then craft sentences using...

I or me? Are your middle school grammarians struggling with pronoun case? Try this trick. Instruct your learners to look right before or right after the pronoun choice for the words and, or, nor. Have them cover the conjunction and the...

In this identifying noun clauses worksheet, students identify the type of noun clause in each sentence.  Students decide if the clause is a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, predicate nominative, subject or...

Students study about President Bush's nomination of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court. They compare coverage of the nomination in different sections and articles in The New York Times.

Students study the criteria used to select notable book awards, including the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal. Then they develop their own Class Book Awards to bestow upon favorite books in the classroom library. They decide on...

Students differentiate between positive and negative personal attributes and select a fictional character for nomination who personifies the qualities of a good leader. They use the Internet to learn about the election process and write...

Learners create a class book award. In this book award lesson, students review the book awards already created (Caldecott or Newbery) and look at books that have received these awards. They come up with their own award and nominate new...

Students examine the number of women in the United States Senate. After reading an article, they discover Hillary Clinton's possible bid for the presidential nomination for the Democratic party. In groups, they research the lives and...