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English Grammar Worksheets (Middle & High School)

June 12th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2013 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Fox Valley Technical College: ABE English – Intro to Grammar

Age Range: 12-18 (about Middle & High School, with parental supervision)

A Maryland ClickScholar suggested this website, sponsored by Fox Valley Technical College that provides free English grammar worksheets and answer sheets. The study aids are provided for students who score low on college English entrance exams and are required to enroll in an Adult Basic Education English class.

There are no bells or whistles here, just great printable worksheets for learning, practicing, and remediating English grammar including:

  • Nouns & Prepositions
  • Plurals & Possessives
  • Verbs
  • Pronouns
  • Adjectives & Adverbs
  • Comparatives & Superlatives
  • Parts of Sentences
  • Subject & Verb Agreement
  • Commas
  • Quotes, Caps, & Apostrophes
  • End Punctuation

When you get to the site, just select the topics you want to study, download the pdf, print out the worksheets, and practice offline.

 

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Free Grammar & Writing Lessons!

January 9th, 2013

It’s Wednesday, January 9, 2013 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Age Range: 8-17 (with parental supervision)

This ad-free website, designed by an English professor for students with a wide range of ability levels, provides free lessons in grammar and writing.

When you get to the site you will see a menu of topics with search buttons below them. Click on the “arrow down” on any search button and you will see a drop-down menu of the amazing range of topics covered in that category as follows:

•Words and Sentences — adjectives, adverbs, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, etc.

•Paragraphs — paragraph development, sentence variety, sentence combining, etc.

•Essays & Research Papers — principles of composition, outlining, organization, structure, tone, formatting, plagiarism, etc.

•Quizzes — Take interactive quizzes to test your knowledge of grammar.

•Powerpoint Presentations — instructions, suggestions, resources, and demos for powerpoint presentations.

Click on any topic in the drop-down menu and a new page opens with instructions delivered through text and illustration. Clear examples of the correct and incorrect forms are provided as well. Interactive quizzes at the end of each lesson allow the student to self-test their knowledge of the subject matter.

This site is equivalent to having a complete English textbook online for free. The interactive element of the quizzes makes this rather dry material much more appealing to students.

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Free Writing & Grammar Video Lessons For K-12!

September 10th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Wednesday, August 29, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Discovery Education: English Homework Help

Age Range: 5-18 (grades K-12)

This website offers free video lessons to help students in grades K-12 improve their writing composition, mechanics, and grammar skills.  The videos are animations provide instruction through simple stories designed to engage students.

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of video lessons divided into three sections – Writing, Mechanics, and Grammar. Each section is further divded by grade levels including:

K-2 – Watch videos that introduce writing and story-telling, as well as punctuation, capitalization, and parts of speech to young children.

3-5 – Receive video instruction on sentence structure, the placement of punctuation, and an introduction to conjunctions and predicate adjectives.

6-8 – Lean to revise written work. Create compound and complex sentence.  Find out how to use a colon and semicolon, and learn all about apostrophes and double negatives.

9-12 – Watch videos that explain persuasive writing and how to do research to write a paper. Learn the mechanics of complex sentences, along with writing style, structure, and tone.

Just click on the video topic of interest to enjoy the presentation. (Depending on your computer speed it may take a minute or two to download the video.)  When you’re through watching the videos you can check out the other learning resources at this site (covering a variety of subjects). You’ll find a free lesson plan library and additional web resources to explore.

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Fun Grammar Lessons, Videos, & Activities!

July 18th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Wednesday, July 18, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Grammaropolis

Age Range:  7 and up (approximately, with parental supervision)

This commercial website provides really entertaining videos, e-books, and interactive games designed to help kids learn the parts of speech and grammar. While access to all of the programs on the site are available for a subscription fee, there is plenty of free content that your children will enjoy as well.

When you get to the site, you’ll see a changing/sliding welcome message and below it some links to explanations about the program, followed by a menu where you can explore samples of the books, videos, quizzes, and games that are included in the “Grammaropolis” program.

The easiest way to explore the free grammar content is to use the horizontal menu buttons at the top of the home page.  Place your cursor over each button to see what topic it covers including:

*Nouns – Learn about common nouns, proper nouns, concrete nouns, and abstract, compound, and collective nouns.

*Verbs – Discover action verbs along with transitive, intransitive, and linking verbs.

*Adjectives – Find out about possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, comparative, and superlative adjectives. Learn about articles, too!

*Adverbs – Explore adverbs, adverb clauses, and comparative and superlative adverbs.

*Pronouns – Learn about subjective and objective personal pronouns.  Study possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, intensive, reflexive, and relative pronouns.

*Conjunctions  – Find out how conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence. Learn about coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions.

Learn how to identify and use prepositions and interjections, too!

Click on any topic and a new screen opens where you can take an animated mini-tutorial. Just click on the arrows to scroll to each new page.

This multimedia resource, developed by a classroom teacher, appeals to a variety of learning styles. The free content here is a great way to introduce parts of speech or review them.

 

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Free, Fun “Parts of Speech” Tutorial & More!

May 23rd, 2012

Hi! It’s Wednesday, May 23, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Sheppard Software: Parts of Speech Tutorial

Age Range: 7-10 (approximately, with parental supervision)

This fun “Parts of Speech Tutorial” is comprised of a series of animated games that help kids identify and use nouns, adjectives, verbs, commas, and capitals.  It’s part of the massive, ad-supported Sheppard Software website that offers hundreds of free learning games for children in language arts, math, science, history and more.

When you get to the website you’ll see a picture of a stage. Click on the word “Play” on the stage curtain to cre ate a character using nouns, adjectives, and verbs. If you’re uncertain of those parts of speech, then look at the menu on the left side of the page to find educational games that include:

*Noun Explorer – Learn the definition of a noun and use it to feed fish in the animated game.

*Adjective Adventure – Select fly adjectives and use them to feed the spiders. (My personal fave. :)

*Verbs in Space – Use verbs to hammer robot aliens in space.

*Comma Chameleon – Select punctuation marks and help the chameleon place them in a sentence correctly .

*Magical Capital – Help a fairy capitalize words in sentences.

Once you play those games, go back to the main page to build your character for the stage. This is an engaging way to help kids learn and practice parts of speech.

When you’ re finished, be sure to click on the words “Sheppard Software” at the top of the screen to explore all of the learning games offered at this site.  You’ll want to bookmark it to return often.

 

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Reading, Writing, Spelling, & Grammar Games!

May 16th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Wednesday, May 16, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
BBC: Skillswise

Age Range: 11 and up (with parental preview and supervision)

This BBC website offers free interactive games that teach practical literacy skills. Although designed for adults, students (about 11 and up) can use this resource as well. Instead of playing young “kiddie games” that are sometimes too elementary, slow-moving, or annoyingly “cutesy,” students can practice basic reading, writing, grammar and spelling with games that use more sophisticated vocabulary and topics (although some of the games are still very simple with young-ish animations). 

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of English skills including:

*Reading – Learn phonics, letter and word recognition, reading comprehension and more.

*Writing – This section covers handwriting, typing, filling in a form, writing a paragraph or letter, and proofreading.

*Spelling – Discover root words, prefixes and suffixes, letter patterns, and more.

*Word Grammar – Find out about verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

*Sentence Grammar – Practice sentence structure, tenses, and punctuation.

Click on any topic and a new page opens. Watch a short video, play some games to reinforce learning, and take some short quizzes.

IMPORTANT: In all of the games I sampled for this review, I didn’t find any objectionable content. However, I did not sample everything. Because Skillswise was designed for adults, PARENTS SHOULD PREVIEW AND SUPERVISE ALL USE.

 

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