Core Knowledge Foundation
Unit 4: The Renaissance
The Renaissance is the theme of a five-week unit designed to boost reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and expository writing skills. Scholars listen to and discuss daily readings and engage in skills practice activities...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Unit 2: Early American Civilizations
Fifth graders explore early American civilizations in a four-week ELA unit. Every lesson offers an opportunity to read and discuss a selected passage followed by word work that covers vocabulary, grammar, and morphology. Learners write...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
BW Walch
Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
Curated OER
Was - Were - Wasn't - Weren't
Check out this cute online interactive worksheet. Pupils fill in the blank for each of the 10 sentences with one of four helping or linking verbs. Verbs focused on include was, were, wasn't, and weren't.
Curated OER
Business English at Work: Verb Tense, Voice and Mood-Verbals
Demonstrate the various tenses of irregular and regular verbs. The verbs be, do, and have are charted out for the present tense, past tense, and past and present participles. Likewise, many regular verbs are conjugated into present,...
Curated OER
State of Being Verbs
Have your class engage in this excellent language arts presentation on verbs. The focus is on the differences between action verbs and state of being verbs. Students choose the state of being verbs on one slide, and move on when they are...
K12 Reader
Predicate Adjective or Not?
Defining the parts of a sentence is just like real estate—it's all about location! Learners read eight sentences and decide whether the describing words are predicate adjectives or not, based on their position in the sentence.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)
Provide extra support with a unit that follows a teach, blend, guided practice, and practice/apply routine to reinforce reading, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills. Reading and writing lessons include supporting details, story...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Practice Book: The Boy Who Saved Baseball
An array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...
Pearson
The Present of Be: Statements and Yes/No Questions
To be or not to be? That's not the question in this presentation, but it features ways to use the forms of to be in other questions. A great addition to your grammar unit.
Curated OER
Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
Curated OER
The Verb
How are linking verbs and action verbs different? First, study the definitions and examples of each (at the top of the first page). Then, assess the comprehension skills of your class by having them complete the 20-question practice...
Curated OER
Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements
What sets this activity apart are the clear, concise explanations for some rather complex grammatical terms. Object complements, subject complements, transitive and intransitive verbs, and direct and indirect objects are all carefully...
Curated OER
Linking Verb or Action Verb?
Part of exploring parts of speech is being able to distinguish between linking verbs and action verbs. One implies a stat of being, and one expresses an action. After reviewing the definition briefly, provide your middle schoolers with...
Curated OER
Verb Issues I
See the variety of verbs spelled out in these slides. From infinitives to intransitives, each verb is defined and shown with examples. Relationships of verbs to other parts of a sentence are clearly explained. This complex subject is...
Curated OER
Verbos: Verbos de acción y verbos conectores
Have your Spanish language learners brainstorm a list of action verbs and another list of auxiliary/ linking verbs. Depending on your class, you might want to provide a list of verbs for them to organize into these categories.
Curated OER
The Parts of Speech
Identify action verbs and decide whether they are transitive or intransitive. After labeling fourteen sentences and their verbs, learners move on to distinguish action verbs from linking verbs in twenty additional sentences. The...
Curated OER
Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs
Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward instructional activity on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the...
Curated OER
Hillbilly Feud:Language Arts Game
English language learners or native elementary schoolers will enjoy practicing their parts of speech with this interactive grammar game. Set deep in the backwoods of Tennessee, the class splits in two to join either the Hartfields or...
Curated OER
The Verb
"Are," "Is," and, "Am" are the three verb phrases used in this grammar learning exercise. Leaners fill in one of these words in 10 different sentences. A good, basic grammar rules learning exercise.
Curated OER
Predicate Noun/ Predicate Adjective Recognition Practice
In this subject and predicate worksheet, students learn how to identify the subject, verb and predicate noun or adjective. Students make 3 columns on a piece of paper and for ten sentences, identify the subject, verb, and predicate noun...
Curated OER
Linked For Life! Linking Verbs and Predicate Nouns
In this predicate noun worksheet, students identify predicate nouns in sentences. In this word/predicate noun recognition worksheet, students draw lines under the nine answers.