Lessons tagged with "conventions"
Capitalize Names of People
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing names of people. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. This lesson practices using uppercase letters as a rule when writing people's names. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Proper Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing proper nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify specific names of people, places, and things and the letter that should be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Verbs
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify action words in sentences. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Correctly Use Misused Verbs
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on correctly using commonly misused verbs, such as lie/lay, sit/set, teach/learn, and rise/raise. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences, noting the choice of verbs. Then, they underline who or what the verb is affecting, and thus identify the correct verb. Finally, they write a new sentence with the correct verb. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Quotation Marks Around the Exact Words of a Speaker
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using quotation marks around the exact words of a speaker. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the dialog tag. Then, they punctuate the sentence with quotation marks and read the sentence again, paying attention to the quotation marks. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify and Use Modifiers
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying and using modifiers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences, identifying the descriptive word or modifier. Then, they draw an arrow to the word it is modifying, determine whether the modifier is an adjective or adverb, and use the modifier in a sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Combine Sentences with Appositives
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on combining sentences with appositives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the noun in the first sentence and the noun phrase in the second. Then students are asked to combine the sentences with appositives. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine How Complex Sentences are Related
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying complex sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the subject and verb in the independent clause, and the subject, verb, and subordinating conjunction in the dependent clause. Then they identify the type of complex sentence (cSV, SV or SV cSV), and finally write how the clauses are related. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine How Compound Sentences are Related
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying compound sentences with coordinating conjunctions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences, circling the coordinating conjunction and identifying the relationship of the clauses, if any. Then, they label the subject and verb and determine if it is a compound sentence or not. If it is, then they insert the proper comma. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Explain the Function of Conjunctions in Simple Sentences
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying types of simple sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences and label the subject and verb, noting whether there is a compound subject, a compound verb, or neither. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Prepositional Phrases
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying prepositional phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and determine the preposition (based on a given table). Then, they identify the full prepositional phrase and whether the phrases shows position in space or time. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Punctuate Sentences with Appositives
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying appositives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence, looking for noun phrases. Then, they identify if the noun is followed by an appositive, insert a comma to separate the appositive from the rest of the sentence and read it aloud. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Spell Words Correctly
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on spelling words correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice spelling words correctly using six different spelling rules about adding suffixes to the end of words. In addition to the lesson, there are 12 pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Spell Sight Words
- Grade:
- K
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on spelling sight words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice spelling sight words that must be memorized because they usually do not follow any spelling rules. In addition to the lesson, there are nine pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.