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Title:
| Grammar: Interactive Writing Activities |
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Description:
| These sites feature interactive grammar and writing sites that are fun to use with SMARTboards. The online games and quizzes cover topics such as nouns, verbs, sentences, proofreading, capitalization, punctuation, plurals, and more. There are links to an eThemes Resource on writing prompts and to the eThemes index that leads to many more resources on grammar and writing topics. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Harcourt School: Grammar Practice Court
Play these interactive games for third- through fifth-grade students. The grammar topics include nouns, verbs, subjects, and sentences.
Harcourt School: Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Choose a grade level, then click on a word for a definition and a link to more examples. Includes audio.
Harcourt School: Proofreading Makes Perfect
This online activity for third grade has lessons on capitalization and punctuation, spelling and usage. Correct the sentences and then check the answers.
Harcourt School: Go for Grammar Gold
This page has many fun practice quizzes for first through fifth grade.
Harcourt School: Writing Prompts
Show these pictures to students to inspire them to write a story.
Fun Brain: Grammar Gorillas
This interactive quiz has an beginner and advanced level that have questions about the parts of speech. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Fun Brain: The Plural Girls
Choose a difficulty level and then try to create the plural form of the given words.
Fun Brain: Word Confusion
This game has players choose the correct homonym to complete the sentence.
Fun Brain: SpellaRoo
Choose a difficulty level and then identify which word is misspelled.
Fun Brain: Spell Checker
This online spelling game has players identify the incorrect word and then use the correct spelling to rewrite it.
Fun Brain: Wacky Tales
Click on a story and fill in the blanks with examples of different parts of speech. The site will then use your words to create a wacky tale.
Quia: Is This Sentence Correct?
This online game has players identify if a sentence has errors.
Exercise in Noun Definition
Look at the painting and then try naming all the singular, plural, and collective nouns. Click on "Grammar's List" for the answers. NOTE: There is a link to a message board.
BBC: Putting Sentences Together
In this online quiz, students choose the best connecting words to put compound sentences together. NOTE: The "Communicate" link at the top leads to message boards.
Quia: Punctuate!
Here are four games about punctuation marks.
Subjector!
Identify the subject in these sentences. Includes the answers.
Scholastic: Building Language for Literacy
This game for younger students has them identify objects, rhyming words, and letters. Each of the characters leads to a different type of game.
eThemes Resource: Writing Prompts
These sites have a variety of writing prompts to help students develop stories. Includes some handouts and PowerPoint presentations. There is a link to an eThemes Resource on paragraphs.
eThemes Resource: Index
Click on "G" for more grammar exercises or "W" for more writing exercises.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 10.4, 12
MO Standards:
1.6, 1.10, 1, 6
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