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Included here are six different handouts covering a total of 10 different grammar concepts; in addition, each handout has at least 10 accompanying practice problems. In addition to that, there is a full 60 question test that you can use a diagnostic or an end-of-unit assessment. Lots of great stuff here that will save time! Note: answer key IS included.

100 Pages of lesson plans, activities, assessments, supplemental readings, and guides, all packed into a single accessible document. This Ultimate guide provides you with creative, learning-centered tools to enhance your literature experience. Customize at will.

11 pages of parallelism handouts, practice problems, sentence creating, quizzes and tests. There's a nice mix of multiple choice questions and interpretive questions, including a rhetorical analysis quiz that is a great reading strategies activity.

Here's some resources for misplaced and dangling modifier issues, both of which appeear on the ACT English portion. Inside, you'll find two handouts, 20 practice problems and a quiz. FYI: as with all my downloads, I don't necessarily give instructions; feel free to modify and alter my resources at will.

This document contains dozens of ideas to develop lesson plans: bellringers/sponges, direct instruction techniques, group activity descriptions, closure exercises. Will inspire you during unit/lesson planning and save you lots of time! This is the one document I consistently return to, both for secondary and postsecondary teaching situations.

A host of resources for teaching semicolons (and a colons). Includes handouts, practice problems, quizzes in both multiple choice and editing-in-context formats, as well as a couple of lessons involving constructing thesis statements using semicolons.

Save yourself the time and trouble of developing a participation assessment device with this handy tool! I usually give the students a copy so they know what I'm looking for; when I factor in the grade, I just circle the criteria and give them back a copy of this rubric.

Contains worksheet, practice problems and quiz for a common grammatical error!

Using lit theory in class can be challenging; however, the rewards of letting students see outside their own perspective are immense. Here, I've given a simple sheet with questions I've used--with sophomores!--to get them to understand how gender, particularly women, is constructed in fiction. I've used it with everyting from Scarlet Letter to Lord of the Flies!

What we've got here is perfect for your poetry unit needs: an essay assignment focusing on the skills of definition and analysis--three different response options, all asking for complex responses. The prompts are broad and not poem-specific; design your own unit and use these prompt options to achieve your goals.

Make correct commas choices with restrictive and nonrestrictive elements are among the most difficult grammar concepts for high school English students. Included here is a clear handout, along with practice problems and quizzes.

Handy, graphic-filled comma packet that works particularly well with freshman and sophomores. The major comma rules are explained clearly and are followed with practice exercises.

I use the following outline form when my sophomores are prepping for their essays on Julius Caesar, but it can easily be adapted to any thesis-driven argumentative assignment. The form provides a clear thesis format (if you purchase this and want the accompanying powerpoint template, email me at mrcawn@hotmail.com and I'll send it to you) and asks students to move to the specifics of their topic, particularly the "so what?" element we want all students to grapple with. Perfect for any book!

14 pages of pronoun antecedent madness: problems; quizzes; and a nifty, effective handout to help high school students through it.

handout, practice, two types of quizzes

Simple handout explains how to decide between who/whom, and includes problems to practice with.

Features a response assignment w/three options, key dialogue from the film, some review/summary material, and my question/notes that I use with teh class. This is great as a pre-reading tool for the Great Gatsby!

This is a great writing assignment that's quick and perfect for the start of school or the semester before you launch into a themed unit or work of study. The kids enjoy writing it a great deal, and you'll get some early insight into their interests and abilities

This is a Word template to create bookmarks for your students--fill out the form with your reading assignments and give these out the first day of teaching a text...it's a great way for kids to keep track of their reading and always know what their assignments are.