4th Nine Weeks
3rd Nine Weeks
Writing SOL Skill Review
Practice Typing 1
Practice Typing 2
1) Revising and Editing Sentences
11) Using the writing process to create an essay 12) and much, much more
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Practice Typing 2
1) Revising and Editing Sentences
- Sentence Errors
- Choosing the Better Sentence
- Improving Sentences
- Miss Maggie
- Revision Game – Pick your level! (Rated E for Everyone)
- Academic Cup Champions - various grammar skills
- Play Space Rider
- Pronoun Jeopardy
- Verb Viper (you will need to search for this game)
- Online Quiz #1
- Online Quiz #2
- Mini Interactive Quiz
- Good, better, best
- Cram Up (pick, choose and complete all)
- Sentence Monkey
- Quiz
- Transition Words and Phrases – A Complete List
- Transitional Words and Phrases Study List
- Digital Flashcards
- The Transition Game: “Drag and Drop”
- Scholastic Practice
11) Using the writing process to create an essay 12) and much, much more
- Teacher Fling (Punctuation)
- Parts of Speech – Test Your Knowledge!
- Toon University (more parts of speech)
- Drag and Drop Charlotte’s Web (parts of speech, again)
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2nd Nine Weeks
Author's purpose and tone
Claims and Evidence
Planning and Organizing Writing:
Determine the Main Idea
Organize Writing by Main Idea
Adjectives and Adverbs (SOL 8.8e):
Form and use adjectives and adverbs
Good, better, best, bad, worse, worst
Zoo animals
Quotations and Dialogue:
Quotations and Dialgoue
Commas:
Commas in a series, dates, and places - 8th
Commas in compound and complex sentences - 8th
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters - 8th
Commas with coordinate adjectives - 8th
Commas Review - 8th
Commas with a series
Commas with compound and complex sentences
Commas with introductory words and phrases
Commas with coordinate adjectives
Commas Quiz/Review
Claims and Evidence
- Distinguish facts from opinions
- Identify thesis statements
- Choose evidence to support a claim
- Identify supporting details in informational texts
- Identify supporting details in literary texts
- Classify logical fallacies
Planning and Organizing Writing:
Determine the Main Idea
Organize Writing by Main Idea
Adjectives and Adverbs (SOL 8.8e):
Form and use adjectives and adverbs
Good, better, best, bad, worse, worst
Zoo animals
Quotations and Dialogue:
Quotations and Dialgoue
Commas:
Commas in a series, dates, and places - 8th
Commas in compound and complex sentences - 8th
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters - 8th
Commas with coordinate adjectives - 8th
Commas Review - 8th
Commas with a series
Commas with compound and complex sentences
Commas with introductory words and phrases
Commas with coordinate adjectives
Commas Quiz/Review
1st Nine Weeks
Homophones (Spelling):Use the correct homophone
Chomp Chomp Grammar Exercises: Irregular Verbs, Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Case, Pronoun Reference, Subject-Verb Agreement, Word Choice
Supporting Details:
Quiz
Verbs (8.8d)
Chomp Chomp Grammar Exercises: Irregular Verbs, Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Case, Pronoun Reference, Subject-Verb Agreement, Word Choice
Supporting Details:
Quiz
Verbs (8.8d)
- Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
- Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- Correct the verb with compound subjects
- Identify and correct inappropriate verb tense shifts
- Perfect verb tense
- Progressive verb tense
- Irregular Past Tense
- Simple past, present and future review
- Identifying Verbs
- Irregular Verbs #2
- Irregular Verbs #3
- Verb Notes/Review
- Consistent Verb Tense
- Verb Tense Battleship
- Verb Tense Treasure Hunt
- Verb Tense Consistency
- Identifying pronouns and its antecedents
- Pronoun and Antecedent Usage
- Compound subjects and objects
- Subject-Object Pronouns
- Subjects and Objects - I and me
- Reflexive Pronouns
- Personal and Reflexive Pronouns
- Relative Pronouns
- Another Pronoun Quiz
- Balloon Pronouns Game
- Grammar Bytes!
- Pronoun Clubhouse
- A Pronoun Puzzle
- Goodgame Empire