This lesson explores overusing simple sentences. Simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! This resource includes an activity sheet that allows students to practice varying sentence structures.
Either, nor? Or, neither? Neither! You use correlative conjunctions in connecting two equal grammatical items. If a noun follows "either," then a noun will also follow "or." If a noun follows "neither," then a noun will also follow "nor."
This resource provides students with the opportunity to identify correlative conjunctions.
Sentence fragments can't stand alone, because they do not express a complete thought. Run-ons put two complete sentences together in one sentence without separating them.
This resource allows students to practice identifying run-on sentences, sentence fragments, and complete sentences.
This lesson explores coordinating conjunctions through a short, fun video and activity. Coordinating conjunctions link two complete thoughts. For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. A helpful hit: Remember FANBOYS. This resource includes an activity sheet for students to practice using coordinating conjunctions.
In this lesson, students explore adjectives through a short, fun video and activity. Adjectives modify nouns. When using more than one adjective to describe a noun, we need to make sure they are in the correct order—from general to specific.
This resource provides students with the opportunity to practice identifying correctly ordered adjectives.
Prepositions indicate the location of a thing to another thing across time or space. Prepositional phrases contain a preposition and its object.
This resource allows students to practice identifying prepositional phrases.
In this classroom resource, students will learn how to order adjectives. It is very common to use more than one adjective before a noun in a sentence. Remember, when we use more than one adjective before a noun, we need to put them in the right order, according to their type. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
Verbs have a singular and a plural form. When using a verb in a sentence, pay attention to the subject-verb agreement. This means, that the subject and the verb must agree in number. In this lesson, students will learn about subject-verb agreement. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
Capitalization means using a capital letter at the head of a word. When you capitalize words, you set them apart from other words to highlight a special quality. In this informational resource, students will learn how to follow capitalization rules. Games and worksheets are provided with this resource.
In this classroom resource, students will learn the difference between compound subjects and compound predicates. Sometimes a subject may be more than one thing or person. They have more than one noun or pronoun and are called compound subjects. Sometimes one subject may be doing more than one thing, and thus have more than one verb. These are called compound predicates. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept.
In this classroom resource, students will learn about conjunctions. A conjunction is a word that joins two parts of a sentence. There are two kinds of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept.
In this classroom resource, students will learn how to distinguish between degrees of adjectives. There are three degrees of comparison - positive degree, comparative degree, and superlative degree. You don't need to know these terms, but you need to know how to use each in a sentence. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept.
In this classroom resource, students will learn about fragments. A fragment is only a piece of a complete thought that has been punctuated like a sentence. Fragments can be phrases or dependent clauses or any incomplete word group. We often think in fragments and use them when we speak, but they are not appropriate in formal writing. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept.
The apostrophe has two important jobs: it shows possession or ownership, and it stands in for letters that have been removed from words when a contraction is made. It's important to know how to use the apostrophe correctly. People make mistakes all the time! This classroom resource will teach students when to use an apostrophe. This resource offers informational material, quizzes, videos, and games about the use of apostrophes.
The comma tells us when to pause while reading and helps organize writing. Since commas can be used in a variety of ways, they have a lot of rules. Each one is important and helpful to know. This classroom resource will teach students when to use a comma. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.
The exclamation mark or exclamation point ends a sentence that expresses a strong feeling or an important command. It is also used at the end of short interjections such as "Wow!" or "Ouch!" and to draw attention to a fact or opinion (I am the greatest soccer player in the world!). Since exclamation points show powerful emotions, they should be used sparingly in writing and should be only used one at a time. In this classroom resource, the students will learn where to place an exclamation mark. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.
Punctuation marks are the symbols used in writing. They act as traffic signs in writing. They tell us when to stop, slow down, or even when to pay attention to something. They make reading easier and writing better. It's important to be able to recognize punctuation marks and know how each one works. In this classroom resource, the students will learn where to put a period. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.
The question mark ends an interrogative sentence, which is a sentence that asks something. It shows that a sentence is a question. In this classroom resource, the students will learn where to place a question mark. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.
Quotation marks show us which words are part of a conversation or something that someone has said. They show when someone is talking. Quotation marks work in pairs - they are used at the beginning and the end of a quote to separate it from the rest of the writing. You might hear them go by two other names: quotes or inverted commas. In this classroom resource, the students will learn where to place quotation marks. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.