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Grammar ebooks
Lessons 16-17: The Absolute Phrase
We had a well-known author come and give a talk at my school about his newest novel. All the students had read it for their English class. As I led him to the gymnasium, I said to him, "I noticed you really like the absolute phrase.""What's that?" he asked.I grabbed my copy of the book, flipped it open to a random page, and immediately found an example. "Look, right here, there's one.""Oh, yes," he replied. "I do like those. What did you call them again?""Absolute phrases," I replied.Ever since
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Summer Camp Bundle Worksheets in Spanish
Welcome to Lingualcoach Summer Camp!In this Spanish worksheet bundle, we want to invite students to have some fun in the sun! These summer bundles would make a great activity packet to send kids home with or take on family vacation! ☀️The different topics covered include: Days & Months, Colors & Seasons, Time and Family. Plus a Vocabulary Bonus with audio.What’s included in each worksheet: - Fill-In-The-Blanks - Unscramble words- Match the column - Find the pairs- Word Search (w/ Answer
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Lesson 18: The Adjective Cluster
Yes, we really do need more examples of Adjective Clusters. It's sometimes hard for students (and authors, I guess) to get the hang of them, but again, they happen outside the main clause, where they have the freedom to elaborate upon the nucleus in a fashion they simply could not achieve in the main clause. What grade level would this be best for? When is it time to drop all those one-word adjectives that are stuffed into the main clause, in favor of the flow and imagery of the lower levels? Th
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 10-12: Commas, Goofs, and the end of Passive Voice
As in the previous lessons, the past participle often suffers from commas and misplaced modifiers. But the rules are pretty much the same, and should be easy to master after these few lessons.Again, making up silly sentences will lead to accurate ones. Combine the two units to go on a treasure hunt to find examples in the books they are reading. Have them even take a look at books in other classes, especially History or Science. Our Teacher's Guide also has some fun suggestions.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lesson 4—Present Participial Phrase
Now that we have learned how to place the free modifiers after, before, and within the main clause, we move to the most common free modifier, the present participle. Students will learn where to place it in the sentence, and how to get the most out of its usefulness. See how many they can put in one sentence (see the Harper Lee example!) and have them pick up any book in the library and time themselves how long it takes to find one. They can then submit their findings to the whole class, and hav
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lesson 9: Past Participial Phrase
The past participial phrase is not as frequent as its predecessor, referring, as its name implies, to the past rather than the present. But it has strength and purpose, and its relationship with the rest of the sentence is often vital to the action in a novel or the reasoning in an essay.It's a fun challenge to the students to find ways to put past participial phrases in their writing. Thinking in terms of the Levels is often a useful approach. Also, sentences that are built upon phrases contain
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Essay Introductions + Vocabulary Triangle
Teach your class how to make the introduction to the essay look like an authentic photograph of the moment, culminating in a roadmap that sets up the entire essay. The topic here explored is Charlemagne, but it could be any person, place, thing, or idea that you want the class to tackle. Again, it becomes a template that is flexible and whose design inspires specific details to support the presentation. A recipe for confidence and success.The "Vocabulary Triangle" is not so much a writing trick
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Semicolons + Correlative Conjunctions
What percentage of your students screw up semicolons? Let's put an end to it, and have a hysterical time doing it. We've got the pattern, so it's simple. And as I say in the video, mastering the semicolon will bring better grades and better college application essays.As for Correlative Conjunctions, they are a favorite of all kinds of fill-in-the-dots-with-your-number-2-pencil tests. The little rule you see on the image of the page shows the simple answer about getting it right. Again, practice.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Lessons 2-3: Free Modifiers Before and Within
So, now we have seen free modifiers doing their thing—making the writing more detailed, flowing, and satisfying. I hope you are thinking about how you can apply these lessons to the books that you teach. It is far more appealing when the students are alert as they read, and pretend it's a treasure hunt for new features that they can add to their next writing assignment.After having studied Lessons 1-3, which were touched on in the "Free Product" offer, the students are asked to write out the le
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 23-24: The Adverb Clause
The adverb clause is so much easier to teach and understand than the adjective clause. Take a sentence, slap a coordinating conjunction on the front of it, and you're done. A fun exercise in class is to pair up. One person says a sentence, the other person adds the conjunction. Maybe do it in circles of six or eight, depending on the number of students. And maybe have them, before you begin, select a simple sentence (no free modifiers) from a book they are reading, and that will be the one they
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 19-20: The Adjective Clause
Lesson 19 covers the adjective clause when applied to humans (who, whose, whom), and Lesson 20 presents the adjective clause for non-humans (which, that).There are many topics that pop up, such as when to use them, how to use them, and where to put them, but you'll find it all covered here. One interesting classroom technique appears with Exercise A. It involves merging two sentences by turning one of them into an adjective clause. What is to be removed? What replaces it? Where should you put it
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lesson 13: Noun Phrase
We know about appositives, but they can feel like a pair of handcuffs, locking the writer into a brief brush stroke of simplified information. "His brother, a magician," "The mayor, an immigrant." Feeble.In this lesson, a whole new world awaits. Noun phrases have a noun, a nucleus, which attracts its own colorful, descriptive elements of richness that give depth and satisfaction to the reader. The samples that you see here testify to the opportunities that invite, as multiple noun phrases become
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 14-15: The secret of the indefinite pronoun
"I have something in my pocket." That's a magnificent conversation starter, as people want to know what that thing is. They want details, specifics, answers.The secret is the indefinite pronoun: something. And I have made a nice little chart to show them all. Just choose one and put it into the Level 1, then move to one or more Level 2s to describe the object using beautiful, powerful noun phrases. When students hear that they can be rewarded for being vague, they get all excited. The exercises
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lessons 21-22: Master those Commas
These lessons are brief, but they explain the differences of meaning when commas are incorrectly added to or omitted from a sentence. There can be ambiguity, silly modifying, or even valid lawsuits. Perhaps the best way to reinforce these rules is to be playful with it. Have the students make up ambiguous or silly sentences, or threatening ones. By intentionally making mistakes, they become aware and cautious.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Lesson 25: Seldom Free
Our last batch of Free Modifiers consists of the infinitive phrase, the adverb, and the prepositional phrase. We see them all the time, but mostly as bound modifiers in the Level 1.But they do occasionally get free. That opening infinitive sequence, from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, exhibits wonderful charm and vividness, delightful for the child or adult.The gracefulness of movement, with an adverbial arrangement that builds with flowing grace, displays Hemingway at his astute best.And the obse
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
Does Your Flamingo Flamenco? Best Little Dictionary of Confusing Words
Does Your Flamingo Flamenco? The Best Little Dictionary of Confusing Words and Malapropisms contains over 250 confusing word pairs and groups, as well as a collection of malapropisms. Definitions and examples are given for each. The table of contents lists every entry with handy cross-references. Included in this book:
Lay and Lie
Affect and Effect
Discrete and Discreet
Butt Naked or Buck Naked?
Past and Passed
Ensure, Assure, and Insure
and a whole lot more!
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Not Grade Specific
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Grammar: Parts of Speech eBook (Distance Learning)
This is an EPUB File designed to be opened and shared via Airdrop using iPads using the Book Creator App. It is includes the Parts of Speech:1) Nouns2) Verbs3) Adjectives4) Adverbs5) Pronouns6) Prepositions7) Conjunctions8) InterjectionsThere are 10 pages included in this eBook.This is an Inquiry-Based Approach where students can complete activities and research independently whilst familiarising themselves with ICT applications. It is hands-on, enabling children to easily tap on text boxes and
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2nd - 10th
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Grammar Teaching Slides - Parts of Speech
Grammar Slides. (epub file)Each slide has examples and then sentences for practice. A great addition to grammar lessons to support other teaching activities.- Conjunctions (coordinating & subordinating)- Main Clause- Subordinate Clause- Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence, Complex Sentence- Common Noun- Proper Noun- Collective Noun- Abstract Noun- Pronoun- Adjectives- Action Verb- Auxiliary Verb- Adverb- 2 sentences to identify the parts of speech (practice)
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4th - 6th
Conditional sentences - type 2
This is a complete set of instructions and activities designed for use on the iPad, through the Book Creator application, where children can open the epub file, fill in the answers (through the "add text" option) and when the book is done, the final product can be exported into iBooks for review later on.
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3rd - 6th
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First Conditional
This is a complete set of instructions and activities designed for use on the iPad, through the Book Creator application, where children can open the epub file, fill in the answers (through the "add text" option) and when the book is done, the final product can be exported into iBooks for review later on.
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3rd - 6th
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Reported Speech
This is a complete set of instructions and activities designed for use on the iPad, through the Book Creator application, where children can open the epub file, fill in the answers (through the "add text" option) and when the book is done, the final product can be exported into iBooks for review later on.
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3rd - 6th
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The Present Perfect Tense
This is a complete set of instructions and activities designed for use on the iPad, through the Book Creator application, where children can open the epub file, fill in the answers (through the "add text" option) and when the book is done, the final product can be exported into iBooks for review later on.
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3rd - 6th
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Six Free Lessons
When we want to learn how to improve our tennis serve, we watch videos of Serena Williams. When we want to learn how to shred the guitar, we listen to Jimi Hendrix. And when it comes to learning how to ride a bicycle, we turn to Mom or Dad. We go to the experts. And when we walk around the classroom discussing great literature, we are holding hands with an expert. Maybe it’s J. K. Rowling, or John Steinbeck, or Tara Westover, or Elie Wiesel. My favorite was Jack London, and the book was The Call
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: The Complete Sentences Course
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Sentence Diagramming & Building
Help students see the relationships between words, phrases, and clauses by having them break down sentences into visual diagrams. Or, help them understand sentence structure by giving them a set of words or phrases and having them construct grammatically correct sentences.
Grammar Word Search
Use word search puzzles to have students locate words that relate to a specific grammar concept (for example, you could have students search for adjectives).
Grammar Bingo
This is a great way to engage the whole class and reinforce a grammar concept your students are learning. Simply call out various grammar rules, sentence examples, or parts of speech, and have students mark the corresponding grammar rule (or error!).
Escape Rooms
Using an escape room-style activity, students can solve grammar puzzles to "escape" within a given time limit. They’re also great for providing children with the opportunity to showcase everything they've learned with a competitive element.
Grammar Quizzes
Regular quizzes can reinforce learning, test students’ mastery of grammar, and help track their progress over time.
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