The Grammar Teacher's Activity-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Teach Grammar and Usage

by Jack Umstatter (Cold Spring Harbor School District in Long Island, New York)

• ISBN13: 9780470609408
• ISBN10: 0470609400
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780470543153
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Quick, daily classroom lessons for improving students' grammar and writing skillsThis must-have resource features 180 practical, ready-to-use grammar and usage lessons and activitiesone for each day of the school year. The activities included help students in grades 5-12 to acquire, improve, and expand their grammar skills, and become more adept and confident writers. Veteran educator and best-selling author Jack Umstatter helps teachers to familiarize students with the type of grammar-related content found on standardized local, state, national, and college admissions tests. Includes ready-to-use, yet comprehensive and authoritative activities for use as sponge activities, extra homework, or regular daily lessons Reproducible lessons are designed to be non-intimidating and clear for students Other titles by Umstatter include Grammar Grabbers!, 201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom, Brain Games!, and Got Grammar?Tips for educators on how to best utilize each specific topic or lesson are included for easy classroom instruction.

Table of Contents

How to Use this Book

Grammar

the noun

types of nouns

the pronoun

personal pronouns

Do you know your personal pronouns?

reflexive, demonstrative, and interrogative pronouns

singular and plural nouns and pronouns

the adjective

the noun-adjective-pronoun question

the verb

Is it an action, linking, or helping verb?

the adverb

the preposition

compound prepositions and the preposition-adverb question

the coordinating conjunction

the correlative conjunction

the subordinating conjunction

combining ideas with the subordinating conjunction

the interjection

parts-of-speech review (part one)

parts-of-speech review (part two)

parts-of-speech parade

filling in the parts of speech

What's missing? (parts-of-speech review)

fun with literary titles (parts-of-speech review)

parts-of-speech matching

Usage

complete and simple subjects

complete and simple predicates

compound subject and compound predicate

the direct object

the indirect object

the object of the preposition

objects and 8-7-5

subject complements- predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives

Predicate nominative, predicate adjective, or neither?

introducing phrases

the verb phrase

the prepositional phrase

the adjective phrase

the adverb phrase

adjective and adverb phrases review

prepositional phrases review

the appositive

Appositive, verb, or prepositional phrase?

the participle and participial phrase

Participial phrase or not?

the gerund and gerund phrase

Gerund or not?

the infinitive and infinitive phrase

the many uses of the infinitive phrase

verbal phrase review

matching the phrases in context

showing what you know about phrases

happy in ten different ways

writing with variety

phrases finale

introducing clauses

the adverb clause

nailing down the adverb clause

the adjective clause

recognizing adjective clauses

the noun clause

the many uses of the noun clause

adjective, adverb, and noun clauses

identifying phrases and clauses

Do you know your phrases and clauses?

putting clauses into action

what good writers do

starting the sentence

it's all about form

sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences

What's what? sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences

making sense (and sentences)

types of sentences by purpose

''purposeful'' sentences

sentences by design (or construction)

simple and compound sentences

complex sentences

compound-complex sentences

Know the sentence's structure?

subject and verb agreement

agreement involving prepositional phrases

knowing your prepositional phrases and agreement

pronouns and their antecedents

agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

showing what you know about pronouns and their antecedents

indefinite pronouns

indefinite pronouns and agreement

writing with indefinite pronouns

compound subjects (part one)

compound subjects (part two)

working with compound subjects

subject-verb agreement situations

more subject-verb agreement situations

making the wrong right

knowing your subject-verb agreement

subject-verb agreement parade

practicing agreement

How well do you know agreement?

regular verb tenses

selecting the correct verb tense

irregular verbs (part one)

working with irregular verbs from part one

irregular verbs (part two)

working with irregular verbs from part two

irregular verbs in context

Correct or incorrect?

Helping out with irregular verbs

The verb ''be''

Busy with the verb ''be''

The nominative case

The objective case

The possessive case

The possessive case and pronouns

Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case

Using the possessive case

Confusing usage words (part one)

Confusing usage words (part two)

Confusing usage words (part three)

Confusing usage words (part four)

Confusing usage words (part five)

Confusing usage words (part six)

Confusing usage words (part seven)

Confusing usage words (part eight)

Matching up the confusing words

Which is the correct word?

Select the correct word

Double negatives

Misplaced and dangling modifiers

Revising sentences that have misplaced and dangling modifiers

Transitive and intransitive verbs

Do you know your transitive and intransitive verbs?

Active and passive voices

Sound-alike words (part one)

Sound-alike words (part two)

Sound-alike words (part three)

Sound-alike words (part four)

Making your mark with sound-alike words

Regular comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Mechanics

Periods, question marks, and exclamation marks

Working with periods, question marks, and exclamation marks

Commas (part one)

Commas (part two)

Commas (part three)

Commas (part four)

Commas (part five)

Commas in action

Some more commas in action

Comma matching contest

The apostrophe

More apostrophe situations

Working with apostrophes

The colon

The semicolon

Colons and semicolons in context

Quotation marks (part one)

Quotation marks (part two)

Quotation marks (part three)

Italics, hyphens, and brackets

Parentheses, ellipsis marks, and dashes

All sorts of punctuation problems

All the punctuation is missing!

First capitalization list

Second capitalization list

Using capital letters

Capitalize these (part one)

Capitalize these (part two)

Challenging spelling words

Spell it right-and win the battle

Show What You Know

Where did all the letters go?

Grammar and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Grammar, mechanics, and Alice in Wonderland

Phrases, clauses, and sentences found in ''One Thousand Dollars''

Find the mistake

Five questions in five minutes (parts of speech, prepositional phrases, and clauses)

Five questions in five minutes (sentences and usage)

Five questions in five minutes (mechanics)

Five questions in five minutes (verbals and subject complements)

Five questions in five minutes (confusing and sound-alike words)

Answer Key

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