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     Lesson Plans
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives  3-5, 6-8
Use this exercise to help your students understand the function of the three basic kinds of adjectives. (PDF) Source: Great Grammar Lessons That Work

Flag Day  K-2
Create a pocket chart for activities that deal with June events like the advent of summer. (PDF) Source: Month-by-Month Pocket Charts

Native American Activities  K-2
Check out these multidisciplinary activities that explore Native American themes. (PDF) Source: Fresh & Fun: November

Sentence Fragments  K-2
Play a guess-hidden word game to identify fragment sentences and complete a fun maze to test sentence structure completion. Source: Punctuation, Puzzles, and Mazes

Spotlight Strong Verbs on Word Walls  3-5, 6-8
Use books that use strong verbs and build a word wall to show how to use strong verbs in writing. (PDF) Source: Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students' Writing

Unit Plan: Letter Writing  6-8
Compose letters to book authors, officials of organizations, and other people.

Unit Plan: Outlining and Delivering an Oral Presentation  6-8
Learn how to outline a piece of expository reading material, such as an article, and use it to deliver a speech.

Walk the Walk Charades  3-5, 6-8
In this variation of charades, a player walks in the style of an adverb so that teammates can guess the adverb. (PDF) Source: Noun Hounds and Other Great Grammar Games

Word Splash  3-5
Dive in to learning with these fun, dynamic and easy-to-use lessons that build vocabulary and writing skills.

     Online Activities Teacher Guides
Go For the Gold Teacher's Guide  K-23-5, 6-8
Allow your students to learn about the Olympic games from Ancient Greece to today, while developing several different skill sets.

Maggie's Earth Adventures Teacher's Guide 
Target specific skill development in English grammar, Math, Science and Spanish through fun, educational and involved games.

     Reproducibles
Arrange the Words  3-5
Students must distinguish verbs from adjectives with this word-grouping activity.

Assessing Reading Growth with Running Records  K-23-5
This plan will help you to use Running Records to track students' levels of reading competence. (PDF) Source: Taking Running Records: A Step-By-Step Guide

Comic Strip Grammar  3-5
A comic strip makes learning about sentence subjects fun. (PDF) Source: Comic Strip Grammar

Noun Hunt  3-5, 6-8
Try this fun word search puzzle and teach nouns. (PDF) Source: Grammar Puzzles & Games Kids Can't Resist!

Nouns  K-23-5
Learn about nouns by reading a poem and writing original poetry. (PDF) Source: 25 Great Grammar Poems With Activities

Puzzle in the Past  3-5
Use the past tense of verbs to complete a crossword puzzle. (PDF) Source: Ready-to-Go Reproducibles: Great Grammar Skill Builders

Sense and Nonsense  3-5
These silly sentences do not make sense -- but you can fix that.

Subjects Meet Predicates  6-8
Practice subjects and predicates with this reproducible. (PDF) Source: Ready-to-Go Reproducibles: Great Grammar Skill Builders

Write It Right  K-2
Identify and correct misspelled words and punctuation errors.