Grammar
Parts of Speech Party – Gift
How many different ways can we use the word "gift" in a single paragraph? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party – Care
How many different ways can we use the word "care"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party – Fruit
How many different ways can we use the word "fruit"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party – Change
How many different ways can we use the word "change"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party: Introduction (Check)
How many ways can we use "check" in a paragraph? And can your students spot when it's a verb, or a noun, or an adjective?
Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages
Let's go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?
Analyze Suffixes: -en
Students will note the effects of adding a suffix to a word and then look for counter-examples to those patterns.
Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful
What exactly does adding -less do to a word?
Parts of Speech Tournament
Which part of speech is most useful? Interesting? Strange?
Changing Coordinating Conjunctions
What happens when we switch out a "but" with a "so"? An "and" with a "for"? How can such tiny words make such big differences?
Plurals: An Inductive Spelling Lesson
Plural nouns in English are deliciously fascinating. Yet most plural lessons are so dull! In this experience, students are given a pile of plurals and then inductively create groups and pull out rules and patterns.
Concept Attainment: Transitive or Intransitive Verbs
Can the concept attainment model make transitive and intransitive verbs interesting? In my experience, it sure can!
Simile or Metaphor – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these types of figurative language - without any instruction!?
Simple or Compound Sentences – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these two types of sentences - without any instruction!?
Run On or Not? – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these sentences - without any instruction!?
Complex or Compound – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the difference between these two types of sentences without any instruction!?
Progressive or Simple Tenses – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences between these two tenses - without any instruction!?
Past Progressive or Simple Past Tenses – Concept Attainment
Can students figure out the differences between sentences with past progressive and simple past tenses using the concept attainment model?
Parts of Speech Party – Well
How many different ways can we use the word "well"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party – Thanks
How many different ways can we use the word "thanks"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party – Limit
How many different ways can we use the word "limit"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Unclear Pronouns: Too Many Antecedents
What happens when a pronoun could refer to more than one noun? Big problems!
“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s
Let's spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between "its" and "it's" by asking students to write a children's story about the adventures of a critter named It.