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Independent and Subordinate Clauses
Middle schoolers identify independent and subordinate clauses and differentiate between the two. They discuss sentences, complete a practice worksheet, write independent clauses, and identify independent and subordinate clauses in the...
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
Have learners identify the main clause, subordinate clause, and relative clause within a sentence. One page of definitions and examples accompanies a page of exercises for scholars to practice finding the various clauses.
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Understanding Predicates
High schoolers identify predicates in a sentence. In this grammar instructional activity, students highlight the subject and predicate in various sentences. High schoolers examine the various types of predicates and practice identifying...
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Parts of Speech Review
Students need to know how to correctly use words in their writing and speaking. By reviewing parts of speech with hands-on activities, students retain and enjoy studying sentence structure.
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The Fanboys
Pupils explore coordinating conjunctions in order to explore how to properly use them in compound sentences. The differences in structure between simple and compound sentences are analyzed.
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Subject and Predicates, Oh My!
Sixth graders practice using simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in speaking and writing activities. Handouts and worksheets are included in the lesson.
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Back to School: Style Analysis
Jump back into expository writing and analysis at the start of a new school year! Start with a review of an authors' stylistic choices in diction, syntax, treatment of subject matter, and figurative language. Writers choose a text to...
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Six Types of Reactions
In this types of chemical reactions worksheet, learners fill in 5 blanks with the proper type of chemical reaction described in the sentence. Students balance 5 equations and identify the type of chemical reaction for each equation.
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Georgia CRCT - 7th Grade Language Arts Quiz
Writing conventions are the focus of this standardized practice test. Designed for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), these fifteen questions address grammar (capitalization, parts of speech, homonyms) and writing...
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Parts! Parts! Who Has the Matching Part?
Fifth graders identify the subject part of a sentence. They receive randomly distributed teacher-made sentence parts. They have either a subject part of a sentence or the remainder of the sentence.
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Communicating about Our World through Informal Writing
Fifth graders review their writing for repetition of words at the beginning of the sentence. In this informal writing instructional activity, 5th graders share examples of sentence beginnings. Students use a thesaurus to find antonyms...
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Standard 4-Photosynthesis, Diseases and the Immune System
In this photosynthesis, disease and Immune System worksheet, students fill in the blanks with key terms to complete sentences about the transfer of energy from the sun to plants, enzymes as catalysts in reactions, homeostasis, the immune...
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Conjunctions
In this ESL activity, students complete 11 sentences by filling in the correct conjunction. For example, "I come to College...I want to improve my literacy."
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Roll Out the Run-ons
Students participate in activities in order to investigate the concept of run-on sentences. They identify a complete sentence and the correct characteristics that it possesses.
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Say It with Style: Syntax and Parallel Structure
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech provides the text for a lesson plan that introduces scholars to the significance of syntax. After examining several types of clauses, phrases, and structures, class members use the...
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Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice
In this active voice and passive voice practice worksheet, pupils read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 5 questions that require them to identify the voice the sentences are written in and rewrite them in the opposite voice.
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Parts of Speech Review
Students practice the parts of speech using index cards to label words in a sentence.
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Nouns
Students recognize common nouns and proper nouns and use them in proper paragraph form. They get the opportunity to play noun bingo. In addition, diagramming simple and compound noun sentences are undertaken within this lesson.
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What About Health?
Students examine the concepts of healthy and unhealthy drugs. They read and discuss excerpts from the book "The Human Body," develop a list of healthy and unhealthy drugs, and write sentences relating to safety about medicines and other...
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Forget Fragments
Students identify and correct fragments in writings. Students perform activities to write incorrect and correct fragments. They create puzzle pieces from fragments. Students participate in fragment activities.
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Using Suffixes -er, -or, -ar To Make Nouns
In these grammar worksheets, students will circle nouns and verbs, fill in blanks with suitable verbs, add -er and -or to verbs to create nouns, write silly sentences using nouns that end in -ar, add the correct suffix to change verbs...
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The Verb and Adverb Connection
Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.
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Requesting Information
Students create a letter requesting information from a local vocational agency using word processing software. They send the finished letter to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.