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Grade 5, Language Arts Language Mechanics: Identify correctly applied grammar - nouns, pronouns, verbs (action/ being), appropriate tenses (past/ present/ future), and special usage problems (double negatives) (COS 26/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: The Power of Adjectives In this lesson, you'll have your students learn about adjectives by having them use them the exact opposite way they were meant to be used. They'll use positive and flattering words to describe something they dislike, or use negative terms to describe something they like. This will demonstrate how much adjectives can impact the tone of a piece of writing. Lesson Plans from The Teacher's Desk This leads you to several activities that will cover many of the topics in this standard Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Students will understand the function of the three basic kinds of adjectives. Mad Lib: An Interactive Internet Lesson This lesson includes practicing the parts of speech with a mad lib generator.

Resources: Eats, Shoots and Leaves Punctuation Game: Practice correct usage of commas and apostrophes with this game. Sentence Puzzles: Choose the skill you want to work on and play the game. It asks you to register for free, but you can click "maybe later" and skip that step. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students point to words that represent the target parts of speech. (E/B) Students are paired with native English speakers to proof read and discuss writing. (E/B, D) Students repeat and rehearse the target parts of speech after the teacher pronounces them. See also Grammar Helps for free, downloadable Power Point presentations on numerous grammar topics, and Grammar Central for student exercises. (E/B, D, E) Students use picture and read-along books on a daily basis to increase vocabulary and gain better reading skills. (E/B, D, E) Students locate and highlight as many of the target parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.) as possible in a newspaper article or a short reading passage. Intermediate and transition students may then copy the words onto a list and define their meanings. (D) Students work in small groups to create sentences that have subject-verb agreement. (D, E) Students keep a writing log for which the teacher provides sentences that are incorrect which students then correct independently or with peers. (See www.greatsource.com for daily correction exercise resources.)
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