Students identify the American language, how it has changed and effected culture, and become familiar with idioms. In this American language lesson, students study the eight parts of speech, identify literal and figurative speech, study...

The final installment of a 22-part American history series examines the many faces that make up the country's story. From Henry Ford to Tulio Serrano, scholars use biographical evidence and Internet research to uncover the people behind...

Students explore vocabulary related to classroom objects and prepositions of place. They label objects in the classroom with self-adhesive labels. They review prepositions of place and create a song involving classroom objects.

This 32-page packet, designed for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on heroes, provides activities and exercises for those learners who need extra support to master the basic concepts in the units.

Students practice writing and speaking using conventional grammar, usage, and sentence structure. Students practice as a whole class and then demonstrate their knowledge in written activities. Handouts and worksheets are imbedded within...

A six-part learning module with links images, websites, slides, and a video on different types of nouns including common, proper, collective, verbal, compound, abstract, concrete, countable, and uncountable.

This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and writing. It focuses on reviewing parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, and properly formating writing assignments using MLA guidelines. The essential questions focus...

This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...

This lesson introduces prepositions and their role. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [2:58] and review questions over the lesson's content.

This lesson introduces pronouns and how they are used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow and provides review questions over the lesson's content.

A seventeen-part learning module including links images, videos, texts, and quizzes on the eight parts of speech.

A learning module with links to eight Grammar Rock videos on the eight parts of speech.

This eleven-part learning module provides a fun review of the seven main parts of speech, as well as, concrete/abstract nouns, collective nouns, comparative/superlative adjectives and adverbs, and collective nouns. These are presented...