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9780470609415

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

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    9780470609415

  • ISBN10:

    0470609419

  • 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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