Pupils 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.

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...

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...

Students 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. Students use a postcard template and...

This entry focuses on nouns and their functions as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, subjective complements, objective complements, and appositives.

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.

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...

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...

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach appositives with explicit instruction, systematic instruction, practice and feedback.

We use appositives to redefine or clarify a noun phrase; test your knowledge in this exercise!

Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.

[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....

An explanation appositives with examples and punctuation rules.

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...

This tutorial provides rules, explanations, and examples for noun phrases, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, absolute phrases, gerund phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Also includes an interactive quiz....

This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.

This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.

This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.

This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.

The first half of this tutorial on clauses and phrases covers topics such as independent clauses, dependent clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, noun clauses, essential clauses, and nonessential clauses. The second part discusses...

The Purdue University Writing Lab explains appositives and their punctuation. Example sentences followed by a ten-sentence exercise. Answer key supplied.

A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, texts, websites, images, and a quiz on appositives.

This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.

This is a 10-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Noun Functions.