Lessons tagged with "grammar"
Use Commas to Separate Items in a Series
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using commas to separate items in a series. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify a series of items in a sentence and insert commas. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Words in a Sentence
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing words in a sentence. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify proper nouns, months and days of the year, and the first word of a sentence to capitalize. 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.
Form and Use Irregular Plural Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This grammar lesson covers the use of irregular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to form irregular plurals using patterns, such as –an to –en, -y to –ies, -f to –ves, and no change.
Capitalize Holidays, Product Names, & Geographic Names
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This grammar lesson covers the capitalization of holidays, product names, and geographic names. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify words that should be capitalized and then recognize which of the three sentences is correct.
Identify Regular Plural Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying regular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students change singluar nouns to plural nouns based on the spelling rules. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Irregular Plural Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying irregular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students change nouns to irregular plural nouns based on the spelling pattern. 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.
Distinguish Between Complete and Incomplete Sentences
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on distinguishing between complete and incomplete sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify verbs and subjects within a sentence and determine if the sentence in complete or incomplete. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Holidays and Special Events
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing holidays and special events. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify holidays and special events in sentences and mark the letters to be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Produce Simple Sentences
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This grammar lesson covers the production of simple sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify the subject and verb as well as phrases that tell where and how. They will create and write new sentences that match pictures and words from a word bank.
Punctuate Dates, Cities, and States
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on punctuating dates, cities, and states correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students insert commas to correctly punctuate dates, cities, and states. 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 Adjectives
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying and using adjectives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and use words that describe a noun. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Subjects and Predicates
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying subjects and predicates. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and label the subject and predicate in a sentence and cross out any sentences that are not complete. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Produce Complete Sentences (Subject and Predicate)
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using subjects and verbs to write complete sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the verb that describes the action of a character in a picture. Then, writes a complete sentence using the verb and the subject shown in the picture. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Abstract Nouns
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers the use of abstract nouns in a sentence or paragraph. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. The nouns are grade-specific, and cover general, academic, and domain-specific words and phrases. Students should be reminded that abstract nouns cannot be experienced using the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste).
Identify and Use Adjectives
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying and using adjectives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and use words that describe a noun. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Ensure Subject-Verb Agreement
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers the subject-verb agreement. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to identify and ensure correct subject-verb agreement in sentences and paragraphs.
Identify Types of Simple Sentences
- Grade:
- 3
- 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 label subject and verbs in sentences and identify the type of simple sentence (SV, SSV, SVV, SSVV). In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Subordinating Conjunctions
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers subordinating conjunctions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using subordinating conjunctions in sentences and paragraphs. It will be helpful if students are already familiar with complete simple and compound sentences prior to this lesson.
Capitalize Geographical Names and Historical Periods
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing geographical names and historical events. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify historical events and geographical names in sentences and mark the letters to be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Complex Sentences
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Language lesson focuses on having students identify complex sentences. Students will be asked to identify the clauses and determine the structure of the sentence based on the subordinating conjunction. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.
Write Sentences with Reciprocal Pronouns
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers the use of reciprocal pronouns (each other and one another). The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn when to use "each other" versus when to use "one another".
Identify Subjects and Predicates
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying subjects and predicates. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and label the subject and predicate in a sentence and cross out any sentences that are not complete. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Coordinating Conjunctions
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers coordinating conjunctions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using conjunctions to join words based on the relationship between words. It will be helpful if students are already familiar with complete simple and compound sentences prior to this lesson.
Identify Regular & Irregular Verbs
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying regular and irregular verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read both present and past tense verbs and identify the change. Then students determine the type and use both verbs correctly in a sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Commas and Quotation Marks in Dialogue
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers the proper use of commas and quotation marks. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice the correct placement of quotation marks and commas with dialogue.
Use Regular and Irregular Verbs
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers regular and irregular verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Use Simple Sentences
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using simple sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students select a subject and a verb from the word bank and write a simple sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Punctuate Compound Sentences Correctly
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on correctly punctuating compound sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences, identify the relationship of the clauses, if any, 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.
Use Commas in Direct Quotations
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using commas in direct quotations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences with quotation marks and identify the speaker. Then, they punctuate the sentence by adding the comma in the correct place. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Order Adjectives Within Sentences
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Language lesson has students put adjectives in their correct order when describing nouns. Students will order adjectives within isolated sentences and within brief texts. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.
Correctly Use Verbs that are Often Misused
- 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.
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.
Combine Sentences with Participial Phrases
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on combining sentences with participial phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students combine sentences by inserting a participial phrase and comma in the correct place. 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.
Use Quotations Marks Around Titles
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using quotation marks around titles. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read each sentence, looking for a title. Then, they insert quotation marks around the title of the work, if needed. Finally, they select the correctly punctuated sentence from four choices. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Independent & Dependent Clauses in Sentences
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying independent and dependent clauses. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the independent clause, if any, by labeling SV and underlining. Then, they identify the dependent clause, if any, by labeling cSV and double underlining. Common subordinating conjunctions are provided for reference. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Use Effective Subordination to Write a Complex Sentence
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using effective subordination to write a complex sentence. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the relationship between sentences (time, cause and effect, opposition, condition, and place) to determine the correct subordinating conjunction. Then, they combine the sentences by linking them with the subordinating conjunction. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Explain the Function of Adverbial Phrases
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers how to explain the function of adverbial phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the adverbial phrase, and then determine what information it gives about the bolded verb (such as how, when, where, and why).
Express Ideas with Precise Verbs
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson covers how to express ideas with precise verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a sentence and instructions for a more specific verb that is needed in the sentence. Then, they choose the most precise verb from a list of possibilities.
Correct Dangling & Misplaced Modifiers
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Common Core language lesson covers misplaced and dangling modifiers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to identify the unclear modifier, determine if it’s dangling or misplaced, and then rewrite the sentence to correct the problem. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Analyze Compound Sentences
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on analyzing compound sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the relationship between two independent clauses (addition, cause, difference, result, choice). Then, they write the correct coordinating conjunction for the compound sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Complex Sentences
- Grade:
- 7
- 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 dependent clause, labeling the conjunction and punctuation. then, Identify the independent clause and if it is a complex sentence, students identify what type (cSV, SV, or SV cSV). Finally, they 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.
Identify Compound Sentences with Transitions
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying compound sentences with transitions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify independent clauses, if any. Then, they identify the transition word or phrase and determine if it is a compound sentence. Finally, if it is a compound sentence, they write how the clauses are related. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Identify Compound Sentences
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying compound sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentences and identify independent clauses, if any. Then, they label the subject, verb, and coordinating conjunction, if any. If it is a compound sentence, they write the relationship between the two clauses. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Explain the Function of Verbals
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson explains the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn to identify the different types of verbals as well as their part of speech.
Use Verbs in the Active and Passive Voice
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Language lesson focuses on having students correct the use of the passive voice. Students will identify the actors and recipients of the action in a sentnece and rewrite the sentence to use the active voice. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.
Capitalize the First Word of a Sentence
- Grade:
- K
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing the first word of a sentence 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 the first word 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.
Identify and Use Adjectives
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying and using adjectives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and use words that describe a noun. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.