The grammar teachers activity a day

CONTENTS CONTENTS How to Use this Book • xv Section One Grammar • 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 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 15. the coordinating conjunction 16. the correlative conjunction 17. the subordinating conjunction 18. combining ideas with the subordinating conjunction 19. the interjection 20. parts-of-speech review (part one) 21. parts-of-speech review (part two) 22. parts-of-speech parade 23. filling in the parts of speech 24. What’s missing? (parts-of-speech review) 25. fun with literary titles (parts-of-speech review) 26. parts-of-speech matching x www.ATIBOOK.ir Section Two Usage • 29 27. complete and simple subjects 28. complete and simple predicates 29. compound subject and compound predicate 30. the direct object 31. the indirect object 32. the object of the preposition 33. objects and 8–7–5 34. subject complements— predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives 35. Predicate nominative, predicate adjective, or neither? 36. introducing phrases 37. the verb phrase 38. the prepositional phrase 39. the adjective phrase 40. the adverb phrase 41. adjective and adverb phrases review 42. prepositional phrases review 43. the appositive 44. Appositive, verb, or prepositional phrase? 45. the participle and participial phrase 46. Participial phrase or not? 47. the gerund and gerund phrase 48. Gerund or not? 49. the infinitive and infinitive phrase 50. the many uses of the infinitive phrase 51. verbal phrase review 52. matching the phrases in context 53. showing what you know about phrases 54. happy in ten different ways 55. writing with variety 56. phrases finale 57. introducing clauses 58. the adverb clause 59. nailing down the adverb clause 60. the adjective clause 61. recognizing adjective clauses 62. the noun clause 63. the many uses of the noun clause 64. adjective, adverb, and noun clauses 65. identifying phrases and clauses 66. Do you know your phrases and clauses? Contents xi www.ATIBOOK.ir 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. xii 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 86. showing what you know about pronouns and their antecedents 87. indefinite pronouns 88. indefinite pronouns and agreement 89. writing with indefinite pronouns 90. compound subjects (part one) 91. compound subjects (part two) 92. working with compound subjects 93. subject-verb agreement situations 94. more subject-verb agreement situations 95. making the wrong right 96. knowing your subject-verb agreement 97. subject-verb agreement parade 98. practicing agreement 99. How well do you know agreement? 100. regular verb tenses 101. selecting the correct verb tense 102. irregular verbs (part one) 103. working with irregular verbs from part one 104. irregular verbs (part two) Contents www.ATIBOOK.ir 105. working with irregular verbs from part two 106. irregular verbs in context 107. Correct or incorrect? 108. helping out with irregular verbs 109. the verb ‘‘be’’ 110. busy with the verb ‘‘be’’ 111. the nominative case 112. the objective case 113. the possessive case 114. the possessive case and pronouns 115. indefinite pronouns and the possessive case 116. using the possessive case 117. confusing usage words (part one) 118. confusing usage words (part two) 119. confusing usage words (part three) 120. confusing usage words (part four) 121. confusing usage words (part five) 122. confusing usage words (part six) 123. confusing usage words (part seven) 124. confusing usage words (part eight) 125. matching up the confusing words 126. Which is the correct word? 127. select the correct word 128. double negatives 129. misplaced and dangling modifiers 130. revising sentences that have misplaced and dangling modifiers 131. transitive and intransitive verbs 132. Do you know your transitive and intransitive verbs? 133. active and passive voices 134. sound-alike words (part one) 135. sound-alike words (part two) 136. sound-alike words (part three) 137. sound-alike words (part four) 138. making your mark with sound-alike words 139. regular comparison of adjectives and adverbs 140. irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs Section Three Mechanics • 145 141. periods, question marks, and exclamation marks 142. working with periods, question marks, and exclamation marks Contents xiii www.ATIBOOK.ir 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 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) Section Four Show What You Know • 177 171. Where did all the letters go? 172. grammar and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 173. grammar, mechanics, and Alice in Wonderland 174. phrases, clauses, and sentences found in ‘‘One Thousand Dollars’’ 175. find the mistake 176. five questions in five minutes (parts of speech, prepositional phrases, and clauses) xiv 159. quotation marks (part three) 160. italics, hyphens, and brackets 161. parentheses, ellipsis marks, and dashes 162. all sorts of punctuation problems 163. All the punctuation is missing! 164. first capitalization list 165. second capitalization list 166. using capital letters 167. capitalize these (part one) 168. capitalize these (part two) 169. challenging spelling words 170. spell it right—and win the battle 177. five questions in five minutes (sentences and usage) 178. five questions in five minutes (mechanics) 179. five questions in five minutes (verbals and subject complements) 180. five questions in five minutes (confusing and sound-alike words) Answer Key 188 Contents www.ATIBOOK.ir HOW HOWTO TOUSE USETHIS THISBOOK BOOK The Grammar Teacher’s Activity-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Teach Grammar and Usage is divided into four sections of reproducible grammar, usage, and mechanics pages. The first section, Grammar, features 26 lessons and activities that cover the eight parts of speech in detail. Usage, the second section, includes 114 lessons and activities. Here students will study important topics including sentence parts, phrases, clauses, sentence design and purpose, agreement, cases, and confusing and sound-alike words. The 30 lessons and activities in the last major section, Mechanics, focus on punctuation, capitalization, and spelling, three essential elements of effective writing. Show What You Know, the short, final section, serves as a check on what the students have studied. These 10 activities allow students to display their knowledge of all the topics covered within the book’s pages. Each of the 180 reproducible lessons and activities will take up only a few minutes of time in the already crowded curriculum that you and your students will cover during the year. If the pages inspire greater interest and discussion, go with it, for that is the desired teachable moment. Use these pages as needed. They do not have to be done sequentially. So, if you need a lesson or an activity on commas, use the Table of Contents to select your specific need. Simply flip to the page(s), and you are ready to go. You can use these pages for introduction, warm-up, review, reinforcement, remediation, or assessment. They are appropriate for whole class, small-group, or individualized instruction. Select what is most appropriate and beneficial for your students. An added plus is the Answer Key that will save you valuable time, a teacher’s dream! xv www.ATIBOOK.ir