Grammar · U4-L14
Kinds of Sentences
Four kinds of sentences, four different jobs, and the one case where the punctuation lies to you.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- Four vocabulary cards, each with a check question
- Ten questions, including the command that ends in an exclamation point
Grammar · U4-L14
Writing Good Sentences
Two ways to make an already-correct sentence better: mixing up the types you use, and breaking apart the ones that ramble on too long.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- Three vocabulary cards, each with a check question
- Ten questions on revising sentences, not just naming them
Grammar · U4-L8
Finding the Subject
Most sentences say the subject first, and then a sentence turns around and hides it. Find it anyway.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- A panel that shows each example sentence as you hear it
- Three vocabulary cards, each with a check question
- Eight questions on finding a hidden subject
Grammar · U4-L13
Conjunctions
One small word decides whether the cook makes one bowl or two. And, but, or, and the pairs that hold ideas together even tighter.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- A panel that shows each example sentence as you hear it
- Three vocabulary cards, each with a check question
- Eight questions on choosing and finding conjunctions
Grammar · U4-L16
Fragments and Run-ons
A note on the fridge that leaves Mom with more questions than answers. Finding the missing piece of a fragment, and where a run-on should have stopped.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- A panel that shows each example sentence as you hear it
- Three vocabulary cards, each with a check question
- Eight questions on spotting and fixing fragments and run-ons
Grammar · U4-L9
Forming Compound and Complex Sentences
A campaign speech where every sentence is fine and the whole thing sounds like a robot. Joining short sentences so they sound like a person.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- A panel that shows each example sentence as you hear it
- Four vocabulary cards, each with a check question
- Eight questions on combining sentences
Grammar · U4-L17
Unit 1 Review: The Sentence
A poster about wetlands full of mistakes. Fixing it takes every skill in the unit, one sentence at a time.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- One real poster to proofread, with a checklist
- Questions that each point back to the lesson to reread
Grammar · U4-L1
Kinds of Nouns
A boy from Quincy, Illinois, a homemade radio, and an invention whose name you'll probably guess. Sorting every noun two ways.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- Concrete and abstract nouns, common and proper nouns
- Four vocabulary cards, each with a check question
Grammar · U4-L3
Collective and Compound Nouns
A crowd, a band and a crew watch the fastest ocean liner ever built leave New York. Words for groups, and words made of other words.
- Teacher Notes written for whoever is teaching it
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- Collective nouns, and the three ways compound nouns are written
- Three vocabulary cards, each with a check question
Action and Linking Verbs · U2-C10
Verbs: Action and Being
Every sentence has an engine. Find it with a test that works even when nothing happens.
- Teacher Notes: what to say when a student is stuck
- The lesson read aloud, one line at a time, highlighted as it goes
- A test the student can run alone, not a definition to memorise
- Five worked examples, then a two-part worksheet: find the verb, then name its kind
Grammar · U4-L7
Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates
One word runs the subject and one word runs the predicate. Find them both.
- Teacher Notes with the grade and a reset only the teacher can reach
- A Saturday at a small airfield, read aloud one line at a time
- The same story again with both words marked in color
- Worked examples that say how you could have known
- One part where the words are laid out, and one where they are not
Grammar · U4-L15
Forming Compound Subjects and Predicates
Two sentences that repeat each other can usually become one. Learn the fold.
- Teacher Notes with the grade and a reset only the teacher can reach
- A Saturday morning at a farmers' market, read aloud one line at a time
- The same story again with the joined parts marked in color
- Worked examples that show the two short sentences underneath the long one
- One part where you find both joined words yourself, and one where you say which half got joined
Grammar · U4-L6
Complete Subjects and Predicates
Where does the subject stop and the rest of the sentence start? Draw the line and find out.
- Teacher Notes with the grade and a reset only the teacher can reach
- A hardware store on a Saturday morning, read aloud one line at a time
- Seven sentences where you place the dividing line yourself
- Five more where the work is done and you name the half
- A printable worksheet, black and white, for doing it on paper