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...

Ten questions engage students in thinking about what they have read. They are quizzed on basic concepts related to the nomination process and primary elections.

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...

The process of nominating and confirming federal judges can sound like a lot of bureaucratic hoops, but a resource breaks down the steps of the Supreme Court nominations in a simpler manner. Learners participate in four activities that...

Also known as -e stem nouns, the fifth declension nouns in Latin almost all end in ies. Have scholars use this chart to identify the nominative and genitive form for different nouns you provide. 

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....

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.

Most of your students probably think a car or college is the first big expense their parents could help them with, but as it turns out these kids have been costing their parents for their whole lives. Have they ever considered how much...

In this personal health worksheet, young scholars research biographies of famous people using the Internet or library in order to nominate someone for an empathy award. They fill out the nomination form for this fictitious award by...

Here is resource that offers a very clear explanation for how economists measure economic growth by comparing real GDP over time. There is also an additional worksheet that details the expenditure method and four components for...

Have your class take a look at the macroeconomy. Learners answer several questions using sound economic reasoning to support their responses. Students then graph information.

Examine the nation's economic health using this GDP and CPI worksheet, which features helpful graphic depictions of complex concepts. The first 2 pages include 17 short-answer questions intended to guide reading from a text (not...

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...

Use this worksheet on interest to help your class practice important skills. Learners fill in the blanks for questions relating to interest, plot supply and demand schedules on a graph, complete a table, and solve problems.

In this grammar instructional activity, learners identify the type of noun underlined in twenty sentences as a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition or as a predicate nominative.

In this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined word in twenty sentences as a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition or as a predicate nominative.

In this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined word in twenty sentences as a direct object, predicate nominative, indirect object or an object of the preposition.

In this grammar worksheet, students read about grammar rules and then complete questions. Grammar rules covered are possessive, nominative, and objective case, linking verbs. invisible verbs, and pronoun use. This is an advanced grammar...

In this gerunds and gerund phrases worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify the gerunds or gerund phrases in 10 sentences. Students read 8 more sentences and identify each gerund or gerund phrase as a subject,...

In this What Is a Fair Tax worksheet, students read about different types of taxes, solve problems, and answer questions (including those requiring an opinion with facts).

Nearly every president has had the opportunity to name a nominee to the United States Supreme Court. But what makes someone an ideal candidate to become a Supreme Court justice? High schoolers test their prior knowledge about the...