Elt-World English Language Teaching Marmara Graduates

Grammar

Cuma, 31 Mart 2006

Grammar and Parts of Speech

Acrostic Poetry
Using newspapers or magazines, students create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.

Adjective and Adverb Taboo
A great way for the class to recognize the role of adverbs and adjectives in sentence construction.

Adverbily
Students act out verbs and adverbs.

Basic Grammar Review using "Jabberwocky"
Designed as a beginning-of-the-year review, this activity helps students identify weaknesses in grammar skills.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Jane Straus generously shares instruction in grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Each page also has practice sentences with answers at the bottom.

Color Coded Parts of Speech
Three kinesthetic small group activities to help students identify parts of speech.

Collective Nouns
A pride of lions, a school of fish: these we all know. How about an audit of bookkeepers? Or a sneak of weasels? Almost all of these collective nouns have been verified by Webster's.

Conjunctions
These charts help students see the types and uses of conjunctions, including conjunctive adverbs. Scroll down for an explanation and chart regarding expletives.

Create Your Own Grammar Exercise
Nine activities designed to help students realize the importance of adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and verbs.

Creative Writing: Teaching Grammar and Writing Principles through the Arts
Students produce original songs, dances, poems, skits or artwork to teach writing and grammar creatively and effectively. This lesson includes an article from the New York Times, journal writing, vocabulary words, questions for discussion, and several extension activities.

Daily Grammar
Sign up for the daily newsletter or browse the archives for lessons on parts of speech, sentence structure, and verbals. Users must login with a username and e-mail address. There is no charge.

Discovering Adjectives
A teaching strategy that mixes competition, learning, and food.

English Grammar
This site provides extensive support for sentence diagramming.

English Plans
These activities related to parts of speech and editing are designed for 5th and 6th graders. My favorite is "Quiet Hour Journals," a clever idea adaptable to all age levels.

Fantastic Pictures!
Students create pictures using an adjective-noun combination. Designed for elementary students.

Gerund, Present Participle, and Infinitive 1 and Gerund, Present Participle, and Infinitive 2
Interactive, self-correcting practice with verbals.

Grammar Bytes! Interactive Grammar Review
An appealing site generous with explanations, handouts, interactive exercises.

Grammar Court
Students bring in print errors that they find. One student acts as judge, others serve as prosecuting and defense attorneys. The rest of the class is the jury, and so the lesson goes.

Grammar Journals
A systematic approach to developing skill with language conventions.

Grammar Review: My Favorite Author
Students write about a favorite author and analyze their writing for specific grammatical concepts.

Grammar Review using Sentence Auction
Students in small groups bid on correct and incorrect sentences. The group which 'buys' the most correct sentences wins. This lesson is designed for ESL students and includes sentences, but anyone could adapt it.

Grammar Zone from English-Zone.com
A variety of resources for both students and teachers.

Grammarcise from Kodak.com
Designed for Grades 7 and 8, this activity has students making slide/tape presentations of the parts of speech.

Hacker Handbook Software from BedfordStMartins.com
Online practice with effective sentences, word choice, grammatical sentences, ESL, punctuation, spelling and mechanics, and grammar.

Irregular Verbs: First Person Crossword Puzzle
A printable copy is available at the site.

Language Arts Poetry/Subordinate Clause
Students write poetry using a model that emphasizes subordinate clauses. Adaptable to other parts of speech, too.

More Grammar Review Using "Jabberwocky"
An innovative activity to have students identify parts of speech.

Parallelism: Lesson, Examples, Quizzes
Links to sites that help students understand parallel structure, including examples from the Gettysburg Address and the King James Bible.

Pardon Me, Your Modifier is Dangling: A Creative Way to Teach Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
Students understand, correct, and illustrate misplaced and dangling modifiers. This lesson includes sentences for practice.

Pretests
Pretests and answer keys for identifying nouns, pronouns, and verbs.

Purdue Online Writing Lab
Includes links to grammar handouts, information on modes of writing, and job-related writing.

Reflexive Pronouns
Explanation, practice sentences, and answer key.

A Shower of Adjectives
This activity is designed for elementary students but could be effective with older students, too.

Sufficient Suffixes: Four in a Row
This game, designed for upper elementary, challenges students to add suffixes to change a word to a different part of speech. It requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or equivalent application for access.

Teaching Adjectives with Lunch, by Denise Fleming
This lesson is designed for grades 1 & 2 and has potential for every student who has to learn adjectives.

Teaching Grammar with Imagination
Students read the poem "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins and work with understanding adjectives.

The Tongue Untied: A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Style
Explanations, worksheets with answer keys, and interactive quizzes. This site is designed for college students but is appropriate for high school and possibly middle school.

Verb-Adverb Charades
Students draw a verb and an adverb from 2 stacks of cards, then act them out.

Verb-Subject Agreement
A game with 3 skill levels.

Vocabulary lesson plans
Five lessons for elementary and middle school students.

Wacky Web Tales
Students review parts of speech using an online format similar to the game MadLibs. Students can submit their own Wacky Web Tale, too. This site is designed for grades 3 and up.

Web Grammar
A reference site about grammar by someone who thinks grammar is fun. Check out the Grammar Tips, the Writing page, and other references.

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Students learn about adjectives by describing a "wild thing" of their own creation. Designed for lower elementary students.

Yummy Adjectives
Students work in pairs to take a taste and touch test. They brainstorm and record their descriptive adjectives used to describe the food and knick-knacks on handout. Scroll to the bottom for handouts, including a rubric.

Mechanics/Conventions

The Apostrophe from Purdue University's OWL
Instruction, examples, and practice. Students can check their own work.

Be the Editor!
Students search for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors in a work sheet about famous African-Americans. Designed for grades 3-8.

Capitalization
This printable poster has examples to help kids remember the rules. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application for access.

Capitalization and Washington, D.C.
In this unit, students learn and practice capitalizing names of cities, states, countries, streets, buildings, bridges, and geographical places around the theme of Washington, D.C. This lesson is designed for grades 3-5 and could be modified for any city.

Conversing with an Object
This lesson from the Smithsonian Museum combines practice in writing dialogue with history and creative writing. It includes a forum for sharing exemplary student work.

End Marks
This interactive site is designed for elementary students. Students practice using end marks. Errors lead to reteaching and another try.

Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons
This lesson, designed for grades 6-8, uses "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and online resources to explore to use of the semicolon. Students also practice with their own writing.

"In Praise of the Humble Comma"
This essay by Pico Iyer celebrates the role of commas. High school and adult learners may appreciate it, as will any teacher who has just marked one comma error too many.

The Language Live Home for Abused Apostrophes
Real-world examples of what we hope our students won't do after they leave our classes.

Using Comic Strips to Teach the Use of Quotation Marks
Students convert speech from bubbles to written sentences. This activity is designed for grades 1-3.

[ Geri Dön ]