Ms. Grady's Classroom Resources

This product contains an introductory lesson on Syntax and a re-teach of subject, verb, and object. Within the lesson are examples typical subject, verb, object sentences as well as interactive prompts. Plus examples of inverted sentences from Shakespeare! Also included is a single-page worksheet reinforcing recognition of subject, verb, and object. This is a fantastic lesson and practice to introduce syntax, reteach basic sentence structure, or prime students for a Shakespearean unit!

These bell ringers are a perfect 5-10 minute activity to start each class and give students practice at decoding idioms! Simply show a new slide each day and have your students write down what they believe the idiom means. Every even-numbered slide contains a new idiom put into context and every odd-numbered slide contains the explanation of the idiom’s meaning. There is a mix of well-known idioms and some that are a little less common to provide a challenge! Once everybody has their guess, yo

A quick, 8-slide presentation introducing connotation and denotation with a few examples.

This product contains an introductory lesson on Syntax and a re-teach of subject, verb, and object. Within the lesson are examples typical subject, verb, object sentences as well as interactive prompts. Plus examples of inverted sentences from Shakespeare! This is a fantastic lesson to introduce syntax, reteach basic sentence structure, or prime students for a Shakespearean unit!

A short presentation designed to introduce morphology to middle/high students. Included are explanations of the following terms: morphology, morpheme, affix, suffix, and prefix. The last two slides include opportunities for whole-classroom practice of combining morphemes to create words.