Middle School Grammar Activities (by date, oldest first)

Students practice their editing skills and have some fun along the way! They will all connect with how one comma changes the meaning of a sentence in the funniest way.

19 tweets, signs, and one magazine cover are included in this fun-filled student activity that will have your kids thinking about how they write online.

Editing skills they practice through the activity include:

• Commas
• Apostrophes
• Capitalization
• Appositives
• Run on sentences
• Colons and more!

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Learning the Parts of Speech for High School and Middle School - while this might one of those building blocks for lower levels, students still need a refresher.

Why is this important?

• Common Vocabulary - When talking about the structure of a sentence, students and teachers need a common vocabulary.
• Improve student writing - when students see how adverbs and adjectives create vivid sentences, you can prompt them to work them in.
• Structure Matters - when talking about what's wrong with a sentence, we have to examine the elements that go into it.

What's Included:

• Powerpoint Lesson covering the basics
• Guided Student Lecture Notes during the lesson
• In-Class Games
• Anchor Charts for Class & Notebooks
• 3 Pages of Practice
• 2 Student Activities are digital
• 1 Quiz (PDF & Google)
• Gimkit & Kahoot Templates for easy uploading
• Tips for teaching ELLs/EBs

Looking for a fun way to engage your students? Look no further. Our Parts of Speech Escape Room has students going through all 8 parts of speech recognizing definitions, examples, and usage. This is a group activity which provides an excellent review for an exam or simply as a review.

This is a good interactive power point on sentence structure, namely simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. It comes complete with explanations, activities to have the students name the structure, and ends with students making their own sentences.

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Vocabulary building word study lessons for 7th and 8th grade. Students will consolidate previous knowledge of: Parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), synonyms, morphemes (prefixes and suffixes), syllables and heteronyms/homonyms. Everything you need to teach your students the vocabulary building language foundations for reading and writing in a middle school classroom.

This unit is aligned with the new 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum.

This unit includes a Powerpoint presentation (uneditable), a PDF version and student printables formatted for letter size paper.

Lessons are intended to take between 5-15 minutes to complete, plus student work time.

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The Powerpoint file is uneditable and you may need to click "READ ONLY" when opening the file. You will not be provided with a password to allow for editing of the resource.

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Vocabulary building worksheets for 7th and 8th grade.

This resource includes nine individual activities.

Topics covered include:

* parts of speech

* synonyms

* word maps

* syllables

* heteronyms/homonyms

These worksheets are a part of a Vocabulary Builder Word Study unit, working on vocabulary building. You can easily use just these worksheets as part of your English Language Arts programming.

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This back to school bundle will help you start the new school year with ease! This bundles includes presentations, printable resources, and posters.

⭐️ These resources are aligned with the new 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum.⭐️

Bundle Includes:

Reading and Writing Workshop Bundle - 100 pages of lessons to help you successfully set up your reading and writing lesson blocks. PDF and Slidedeck files included.

Digital Media Literacy Lessons - 60 pages of lesson plans, worksheets, templates, rubrics, and printables that you need! 10 total lessons, plus summative task. PDF files.

Word Study for Middle School Students - Vocabulary Builder Lessons/Activities - 55 pages of vocabulary building lessons and activities. PDF and Powerpoint files included. The Word Study resource will continue to grow, as lessons are developed. There will be 5 units in total.

Click on each resource to learn more!

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These are fake Instagram posts that have pictures of activities. One post shows the activity happening in the present and the other post shows the activity either finished or happening in the past. The teacher will need to cut out the Instagram posts and the text boxes. Then the students will need to place the descriptions (inside the text boxes) with the correct Instagram post. The majority of the practice with this activity is focused on past tense, but there is also present and future tense.

**An extension for the activity is to have the students underline and identify the verb that shows the tense of the sentence.**

This can be used for multiple grade levels and would be a great support activity for upper elementary and middle school students who need practice with verb tenses (especially past tense).

I hope you enjoy it. Please rate and review.

Grade 7-10 Vocabulary Unit.

Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing, and oral communication. This unit is scaffolded and includes lots of review to ensure student success. Teaching Duration is 2 + months. Includes teacher instructions.

Includes:

PowerPoint with 40 list words (word of the day) PowerPoint and Google Slides

Antonyms, synonyms, word prediction, sample sentences, connotation/denotation, part of speech and etymology. (word origin)

Word Wall

Student Notes (Google Slides and PDF)

Includes 4 pre quizzes and quizzes with teacher answer sheets PDF and Google Slides.

Unit Test and pre test with teacher answer sheets PDF and Google Slides

4 sets of crosswords with definitions matching and teacher answer sheets

4 spin and review centers with student work sheets

4 Quizlet Links and Final Review Blooket Link

This is a Zip File and includes, PDF's, Google Links, Microsoft PowerPoint and MS Word and links to Quizlets and Blooket Games.

Grade 7-10 Vocabulary Unit 2. Two Months Teaching Duration.

Improves student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication. Zip File with Google Slides Links

Scaffolded with lots of review and interactive learning to ensure student success.

Includes:

40 high level words PowerPoint and Google Slides With grammar and Etymology

4 pre quizzes and 4 quizzes with teacher answer sheet PDF and Google Slides

1 Pre Test and 1 Unit Test with answer sheet PDF and Google Slides

Students Notes PDF and Google Slides

4 Quizlet Games, 1 Blooket Game,

4 Spin and Review Games

Word Wall

Vocabulary for Grades 7-10

Improves Vocabulary, Reading, Writing

10 Higher level words

Connotation, Denotation, Antonyms, Synonyms, Parts of Speech

Hands on and Interactive

Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication.

Includes Unit One Vocabulary

4 Memory Games

Class set of Bingo with matching definitions (30 student cards)

Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication.

Includes Unit One Vocabulary

4 Memory Games

Class set of Bingo with matching definitions (30 student cards)

Description:

• This is a group activity to help students practice using correct punctuation when using quotation marks. It is meant to be printed and each task card cut out. Then each group of students should be given their own copy of the task cards. The students will sort the incorrect cards apart from the correct cards in a set amount of time. This activity assesses not only that the quotation marks are in the correct place but also the following punctuation: question marks, exclamation marks, periods, and commas.

Included:

• 12 task cards (6 incorrect and 6 correct)
• An instruction slide
• Answer key/Guide

Your feedback is appreciated!

Perfect for a quick review!

Categories included:

1. Match the preposition to the correct picture
2. Match the preposition to the correct sentence
3. Use the picture to choose the correct preposition
4. Create a sentence using the picture and preposition in each box
5. Find the preposition in each sentence
6. Find the prepositional phrase in each sentence

There are four exercises included in each category with following answer keys.

Each exercise has four or five practice problems.

Celebrate the first days back to school with these fun Back to School Mad Libs - now with digital version to support distance learning!

No matter the age of your students, everyone loves a good Mad Lib. This resource features a fun Mad Lib about the beginning of the school year and serves as excellent grammar practice for learners of all ages. Your students will have a blast showing off their grammar skills as they settle into the new school year.

Product Includes:

• Back to School Mad Libs Story (appropriate for all ages)
• Blank Mad Libs sheet for students to fill out (2 to a page to save paper during printing)
• Digital Worksheet to support distance learning for use with Google Drive - newly added!
• Detailed instructions for accessing digital resource

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Purchase Mad Libs as part of the Back to School ELA Bundle for Middle School and save 25% off the cover price:

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More resources and activities for the beginning of the school year:

⭐ Back to School ELA Escape Room

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⭐ Back to School Effective Effort Lesson Plan

⭐ Back to School "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover" Activity

⭐ First Day of School Powerpoint

⭐ Study Hall Expectations Powerpoint Presentation

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Can't get enough Mad Libs? Check these out from Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Mother's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Father's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ End of Year Mad Libs

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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM for ELA!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length St. Patrick's Day-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this exciting lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom on St. Patrick's Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks that will teach them about St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick himself, and Irish culture!

• In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about St. Patrick's Day and must identify the incorrectly spelled word in each passage. They must write the correctly spelled word in their student answer booklet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal their first code.
• In the second task, students will read 8 facts about St. Patrick and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the second code.
• In the third task, students will perform a close reading of one of Ireland's most beloved poems, Raglan Road, by Patrick Kavanagh. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem. Letters of the correct answers reveal their third code.
• In the fourth task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the fourth code.
• In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to St. Paddy's Day trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code. Students must act out this word in order to escape.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal on St. Patrick's Day or any time during the month of March.

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⭐ Escape from Dystopia ESCAPE ROOM

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⭐ The Handmaid's Tale ESCAPE ROOM

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⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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Surprise your students (and their moms!) on Mother's Day with these fun Mother's Day Mad Libs!

No matter the age of your students, everyone loves a good Mad Lib. This resource features an original letter to mom and serves as excellent grammar practice for learners of all ages. Your students will have a blast practicing grammar and their mothers will be so appreciative that you remembered them too on this very special day of the year.

Product Includes:

- Mad Libs "Dear Mom" letter (appropriate for all ages)

- Blank Mad Libs sheet for students to fill out (2 to a page to save paper during printing)

- One of my favorite real-life student examples

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Can't get enough Mad Libs? Check these out by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Father's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Valentine's Day Mad Libs

⭐ Back to School Mad Libs

⭐ End of Year Mad Libs

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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Halloween Grammar Escape Room!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Halloween-themed Escape Room about grammar. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are grammar skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your room has been transformed into a haunted house of horrors and your students can only escape by solving 5 challenging grammar skills-based tasks about Halloween!

• Here, Kitty Kitty: In the first task, students will read a passage about black cats and correct incorrectly used homophones.
• Witch Sentence?: In the second task, students must identify each type of scary sentences (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, etc.) in a matching game.
• In Cold Blood: In the third task, students must identify incorrectly used past tense verbs in a passage about vampires then unscramble letters to solve the code.
• Zombie Escape: In the fourth task, students must solve a zombie word maze.
• Sentence Skeleton: In the fifth task, students must identify the parts of speech of words within a Halloween quote in a matching game. Once complete, they must input all codes into a sentence to escape the haunted house!

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print & Set-Up Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Sheet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal during the month of October or any time you want to give your students a fright!

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Enjoy more Halloween resources by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween Poetry ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween ELA Digital Escape Room

⭐ Halloween Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Halloween Figurative Language Practice

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