While plural nouns often indicate more than one of something with a simple "s" or "es," irregular plural nouns do not. They change the word entirely. Elf becomes elves, the tooth becomes teeth! This is a short, fun video that allows students to explore grammar principles. An activity sheet is included that provides students with an opportunity to practice identifying irregular plural nouns.
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.
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. This lesson specifically talks about personal pronouns. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
In this classroom resource, students will learn about sentence structure. A complete sentence expresses one or more ideas and consists of at least one subject and one verb. Each idea in the sentence is expressed by a clause. Each clause MUST contain a subject and a verb. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
In this classroom resource, students will learn about nouns. Every word is a part of speech and has a role in our language. The biggest "star" of the English language is a noun because it names things. A noun names person, place, thing, feeling, idea, or any concept. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
Adjectives give us more information about nouns (people, places, or things). We sometimes say that they "qualify" or "modify" nouns. They describe the noun or give us information about how many or how much of the noun there is. An adjective can be a single word, or you can have an adjective phrase or clause. In this classroom resource, students learn what are adjectives. This resource also offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
Beach Jeep is an ELA game that offers a choice of skills to work on. Students can drive their jeep along the beach while trying to find signs with the correct plural noun ending, adjective, adverb, or irregular verb. The jeep even comes with a few crazy devices such as the beach ball cannon and punching boxer's glove. Look out for crabs and pirates. They're everywhere!
The classroom resource provides a teaching video on action verbs. The video teaches the students to identify action verbs. Action verbs are words that describe something you can do. This classroom resource includes a worksheet, game, and quiz to help with understanding.
This classroom resource provides a teaching video on adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe nouns by answering what kind, which one, or how many. The video teaches the students to answer questions such as what kind, which one, or how many. This classroom resource includes a worksheet, game, and quiz to help with understanding.
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.
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.
There are two types of personal pronouns: subject pronouns and object pronouns. In this classroom resource, students will learn the difference between subject and object pronouns and when to use personal pronouns. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.
Helping verbs are a special category of verbs. They do not mean anything on their own. They just "help" the main verbs to express their full meanings, and are necessary for the grammatical structure of a sentence. In this classroom resource, students will learn about helping verbs. This resource offers informational material, videos, games, quizzes, and worksheets to help further understand this concept.
Say What?! is a crazy way to help children learn how the English language is structured. These kinds of Mad Libs games have been popular for decades, and now with this online style, children can create their own stories. They'll have to blindly choose from nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and much more. Learning about parts of speech in context is what makes online Mad Libs games so effective.
Kid Heroes Verbs is an online game that makes word usage fun and exciting. To succeed at this game, children must read each sentence carefully in order to determine the correct verb. For every correct answer, kids get to place a hero on the battlefield.
Fun Factory is a great way for kids to practice punctuation and capitalization...and toy-building! Fix the errors in the sentences in order to gain parts for your very own dollhouse, bike, scooter, and more. Can the students build all six toys?
A terrible dragon has attacked the kingdom of Lingua and only a Nouns Master will be able to save it. Will it be you? Put your knowledge of nouns to the test as you venture through Parts of Speech Quest-Nouns!
This teaching guide features discussion questions and writing activities for The Giving Tree; Don’t Bump the Glump!; A Giraffe and a Half; Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back; Where the Sidewalk Ends; and Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? Each story includes classroom discussion and suggested teaching activities.
This classroom resource includes engaging activities to teach basic grammar concepts while developing vocabulary and spelling proficiency. A list of several amusing and informative grammar-themed picture books supply read-aloud examples for a review of nouns and adjectives and an introduction to gerunds. Students themselves refer to the books from the list of materials, plus appropriate dictionaries and glossaries, as they engage in a word-sort activity that provides practice in the spelling changes that can occur when verbs are turned into gerunds. Diamante poems are introduced through handouts and websites, and students compose original, structured poems in this form—first as a class and then independently—using an online interactive tool. Printable handouts and links are included.