Grammar and Parts of Speech

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

Action Verbs
Students add action verbs to sentences.

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
A teacher relates his procedure, including teaching students when passive voice is appropriate.

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.

Adverbs
Students practice with adverbs by playing charades. They apply their understanding of adverbs to a reading of Tillie's Tuba by Maria Fleming. This lesson is designed for 3rd graders and includes a worksheet and quiz.

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.

Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Mini-Lesson
This technology-integrated minilesson explores verb choice in a variety of online resources, then encourages students to draw conclusions about verb use which they can apply to their own writing.

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
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Diagramming Sentences
Sample sentences with explanations, ranging from simple to complex.

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

Eliminate Weak Verb-Adverb Combinations
A teacher shares his approach to encouraging students to use strong verbs.

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.

Enough about I — Let's Talk about Me
In this lesson students learn about common grammar mistakes and then create engaging presentations on grammar and usage rules.

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

Fun with Parts of Speech
Students work in eight small groups to produce a poster about their part of speech.

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 Girl
This series of podcasts provides "quick and dirty tips" for specific writing issues. Since the target audience is the general public, preview to make sure the podcast is appropriate for your classroom.

Grammar Goes Green?
In this lesson, students review what qualifies as a grammatically complete sentence. They then use a Times article about the movie, Hulk, to help them identify interesting and challenging nouns and verbs that they can later mix and match to form new sentences.

Grammar Gorillas
An interactive review of parts of speech for elementary students. Choose "Beginner" (nouns and verbs) or "Advanced" (all parts of speech).

Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar
This research-based article by Patrick Hartwell explores the value of formal grammar instruction.

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 multimedia presentations of the parts of speech.

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