Creative teacher ideas and activities to teach grammar.
Don’t get tangled up in grammar! Here is a second grade plural nouns game that is sure to light up your day. This Shining Plurals activity is a simple “blam” or “bang” card game with a Christmas light twist. Print it now so that when your students are hopped up on Christmas spirit and counting down …
Leaves are changing color. Fall is here! It’s time to break out the fall and Thanksgiving learning tools. Here is a fantastic resource list of 54 things to help with lesson planning. You’ll find math freebies, language arts free downloads plus fun and fast ideas like how to make a Thanksgiving retell bracelet. There’s no shortage …
Shake it up long after Easter is over by using Easter Eggs for lots of lesson plans. Here are 9 ways you can use those eggs on sale to work on math and reading. You’ll love this hack to keep your hard work in tact if you’re going to write on Easter eggs. Keep students engaged …
If you love to get kids up and moving, you’ll love this prefix write the room activity. Work on grammar prefixes with this hidden set of cards placed around the room. Second grade students complete sentences with prefixes on a worksheet as they find the hidden cards. Prefixes Write the Room Worksheet Hide 12 cards with …
Ready to incorporate more “active” activities into your day? Here are 7 unique ways to teach using hopscotch or sidewalk chalk. Get students moving and learning and ditch the worksheets! This collection of activities draw out learning activities with sidewalk chalk is perfect for the end of the year when students have a little extra energy to burn …
Have you read your class the (affiliate) book, Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes? This clever story is a great tie in to your grammar work on suffixes. Here is a free printable sorting suffixes activity that is a perfect extension of the book and your classroom word work. Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes Designed for …
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Sorting different types of sentences for students in upper elementary. Here are declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences to sort into categories. Use these free, printable 17 sentence cards and category tags to make a quick reading workshop activity. Add your own sentences or have students create some to add to the activity. Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative …
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Teach grammar with a fun noun game. Here is a free, printable noun game in the “scoot” style format which gets kids up and moving. Students will review proper nouns, plural forms of nouns, possessive nouns and pronouns. With 30 cards there’s plenty to accommodate even a large class size. Printable Scoot Noun Game Designed …
In kindergarten, students must know the name of basic punctuation marks. Here is a free printable download to help students identify when to use a period and a question mark as well as name them. Students can determine whether the sentence is a telling statement or an asking question. Finishing off the sentence with the …
Free plural nouns worksheet. Help students spell plural nouns properly with this free download worksheet with nouns that end in y and s. First, second and third grade students learn to spell common plural nouns but it can be tricky knowing what ending is correct. With words like baby, party and puppy this free printable …
Create a suffix reading center with free printables. Here is a set of free downloads to practice suffixes for third grade. The common core standards based posters and center activity uses houses to help students identify and know the meaning of the most common suffixes. Posters with suffixes on houses in a row are great …
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Avoid teaching grammar in isolation. Here is a set of 5 free printable parts of speech bookmarks for second grade and up. Bookmarks are a clever way to build in grammar during reading time and making it handy! Have students identify adverbs, adjectives, common/proper nouns as well as verbs using a simple bookmark template. Parts of …
Bring a camping theme into your classroom and review proofreading skills. Here is a fun way to encourage reading and practice proofreading skills at the end of the year. Add any camping gear you may own to set up a fun, themed area in the classroom! Camping Proofreading Download and Ideas This primary printable is …
Its that time again – I’m featuring my teaching ideas to use this week from last Tuesday’s linky party. I hope you find something fantastic that you’d like to make or teach this week, I know you’re going to love this creative set of teacher tips and ideas! These are just the top 3 teaching ideas …
