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Help your students understand the different ways to indicate a short pause or break in a sentence. This PowerPoint presentation walks your through the use of the comma, the ellipsis, and the dash. There is also a notes page for your students to use to follow along with your presentation. Please make sure to preview the presentation first as it does contain animations. If you like this product, click below to see our other L.8.2 and L.8.2a products: Task Cards for Commas, Ellipses, and D

This flow chart is our take on the RACE writing strategy. Since state tests generally require two pieces of evidence on constructed response answers, we have expanded RACE to RACECES or RACES squared to account for the 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th . . . ) piece of evidence. Our flow chart also includes sentence starters that students can use. Our students' writing showed significant improvement when they applied this strategy! This makes a great handout AND poster!

Reinforce and practice active and passive voice skills with this short daily warm up/entry activity: suitable for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. It is divided into four (Monday-Thursday) daily review activities and includes a Friday quiz all with complete answer keys. You may also like: Active and Passive Voice with Zombies PowerPoint Thanks for looking! Mastering Middle School

This is an extensive review of infinitives, gerunds, and participles. There are 13 pages included. Worksheet 1 - Reviews infinitives, infinitive phrases, and the function of infinitives in sentences Worksheet 2 - Reviews gerunds, gerund phrases, and the function of gerunds in sentences. Worksheet 3 - Review participles, participial phrases, and the function of participles in sentences. Worksheet 4 - This worksheet is a mi

Check your students' understanding of participial phrases with this worksheet. This is a part of our unit that we use to dig deeper into verbals. Included are a worksheet and answer key to help your students achieve mastery. If you like this product, please visit our store for additional participial activities including a PowerPoint that walks your students through the basic participle and then progresses to participial phrases and the function of participles in sentences, Please take a se

Help your students understand how to use ellipses for omission. This PowerPoint presentation walks your students through the usage of ellipses to omit in the beginning, middle, and end of a quote. In addition, this PowerPoint covers how to omit a sentence, sentences, whole paragraphs, and even lines of poetry. There is also a notes page for your students to use to follow along with your presentation. Please make sure to preview the presentation first as it does contain animations. We hope

This bundle contains everything you need to teach participles and their functions. There are multiple activities to help your students practice at a variety of levels until they are able to reach mastery of this challenging standard. This lesson is aligned with the common core standard on verbals. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, PARTICIPLES, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. This bundle includes the following: 1. An instruct

Perfect for assessing the Common Core State Standard L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. This assessment includes a total of 30 questions to assess your students' knowledge of participles. Part 1 - Identify the participle. Part 2 - Identify the participial phrase and the noun or pronoun it is describing.. This is a part of our verbal unit, and we offer related products in our store to help your st

Introduce your students to gerunds and their functions with this instructional PowerPoint. This is part of our unit that we use to dig deeper into verbals. This PowerPoint will walk your students through the world of gerunds. We begin with basic gerund and then progress to gerund phrases and detail the functions of gerunds in sentences, (subject, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of the preposition) Included are 33 slides that incorporate guided and indepen

This worksheet on infinitive functions is part of our unit on verbals. It can be used as a practice activity, a homework assignment, or a quiz. Students will identify the basic "to + verb" infinitive, the infinitive phrase, and the function of the infinitive. Click the links below for our other Infinitive products: Infinitives and Their Functions PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Infinitives and Their Functions Task Cards - Common Core aligned Infinitives - a Common Core verbals worksh

This worksheet on participles is part of our unit on verbals. Use for review, homework, guided practice, etc. An answer key is included. There are fifteen sentences included, and some contain multiple participles. We hope you find this product useful. Thanks for viewing us, and we appreciate all feedback! Mastering Middle School

This verbal worksheet on infinitives can be used as a quick practice activity, review, or quiz. An answer key is included. We developed this as a refresher for our students before proceeding to infinitive phrases and the functions of infinitives. Click the links below for other Infinitive products: Infinitives and Their Functions PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Infinitives and Their Functions Task Cards - Common Core aligned Infinitive Phrases - a Common Core verbals worksheet Infin

Perfect for assessing the Common Core State Standard L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. This assessment includes a total of 30 questions to assess your students' knowledge of gerunds. Part 1 - Identify the gerund. Part 2 - Identify the gerund phrase. Part 3 - Identify the gerund, gerund phrase, and the function of the gerund in the sentence. This is a part of our verbal unit, and we offer

This worksheet on infinitive phrases can be used as a practice activity, review, or quiz. A complete answer key is included. We developed this as part of our unit on verbals to help create a bridge between basic infinitives and infinitive functions. If you wish to purchase other Infinitive products, please follow the links below: Infinitives and Their Functions PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Infinitives and Their Functions Task Cards - Common Core aligned Infinitives - a Common Core