Curated OER
Don't Let Your Modifers Dangle in Polite Society
Set your class straight when it comes to dangling modifiers. No one likes a vague sentence! Pupils can learn all about dangling modifiers by reading the information included here. Several examples are included, along with a series of...
Curated OER
Other Pronoun Rules
In this pronoun rules worksheet, students learn information about pronouns and then identify the correct pronoun from two options in a sentence. Students also identify incorrect pronouns, correct sentences with the wrong pronoun, and...
Curated OER
Class Vacation Book
Students, utilizing technology and its avenues, create, produce and publish a variety of works. They generate a bubble map to brainstorm words that describe a specific vacation spot as well as create a pattern book with graphics about...
Curated OER
Dependent Clauses and Types of Sentences
In this dependent clause/sentence types instructional activity, students complete 10 multiple choice questions. Answers are included, labeled as a quiz, but may be used as practice.
Curated OER
Zulu King, Zulu King
Students listen to story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, brainstorm everything they know about Mardi Gras, create pages relating to Mardi Gras for class book, type information on computer, play slide show, and take turns reading their books.
Curated OER
My Name is.....
Students utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
Curated OER
Postcards to the Troops
Pupils write postcards to the troops in Iraq. After listening to letters written by troops in Iraq, students discuss ways the troops are helping America and how they should show their support. Pupils use a postcard template and include a...
Curated OER
Writing with Style: Six Traits of Good Writers
Fourth graders listen as the teacher reads a picture book that emphasized word choice. They discuss words and how word choice impacts a piece of writing. Students view various passages on the overhead, and highlight adjectives and verbs...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appositives
This lesson focuses on appositives including the definition and the two purposes: to rename a noun or to add extra description. It provides 5 practice sentences for students to identify the appositives with answers and explanation to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Accentuating the Appositive
This slideshow lesson focuses on appositives; it defines them, explains how to identify them, and shows how to punctuate them. It also explains that appositives cannot stand alone and can be removed from the sentence without affecting...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Appositives in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach appositives with explicit instruction, systematic instruction, practice and feedback.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appositive Phrases & Adverbial & Adjectival Phrases and Clauses
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson discusses the building blocks of phrases and clauses. Notice how the building blocks of phrases follow the parts of speech-nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Appositives
We use appositives to redefine or clarify a noun phrase; test your knowledge in this exercise!
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Appositives
An explanation appositives with examples and punctuation rules.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Nouns and Their Functions
This entry focuses on nouns and their functions as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, subjective complements, objective complements, and appositives.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Noun Functions Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Noun Functions Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Noun Functions Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Noun Functions Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Appositive Exercise
The Purdue University Writing Lab explains appositives and their punctuation. Example sentences followed by a ten-sentence exercise. Answer key supplied.
TES Global
Blendspace: Appositives
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, texts, websites, images, and a quiz on appositives.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Noun Functions Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.