Grammar resources

The focus of this resource is the use of simple conjunctions. Students decide which conjunction to use to combine two ideas to make one sentence.

Students are required to identify the verbs in a short story about a boy jumping off a diving board.

Students explain what an adjective is and identify adjectives in some sentences.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

This task assesses students' ability to provide examples of different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) in the context of writing two four-word alliteration poems.

Students are required to identify the nouns and proper nouns in a short story about a class trip to the zoo.

Students make choices about which adjectives to use to create a poem about a school of fish. A video clip provides the stimulus for this task.

The context of this cloze task is a story about a hungry weasel. Students generate appropriate words to create well-formed sentences.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on Inuit carving.

Students are assessed on their comprehension of text by completing a cloze exercise about albatross.

Students create well-formed sentences as they complete a cloze exercise on the ruins of Ko Bakong.

Students complete a cloze passage and use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

An account of a fishing adventure in a lagoon provides the content for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage on how forests prevent erosion. They add words to create well-formed sentences.

A montage of ideas about body piercing is the stimulus for questions that require students to unpack synonyms, colloquial language, and referring words.

Students complete a cloze passage with 25 blanks on octopuses. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

Students complete a cloze passage with 24 blanks on insects. A scoring guide with replacement words/synonyms and guidelines for interpretation are included.

The traditional fable of 'Hare and Tortoise' is presented as a cloze article in this resource. Students draw on their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to create well-formed sentences.

Students complete a cloze passage about a type of beetle to create well-formed sentences.

This resource comprises a report on the control of traffic in the Holland Tunnel in New York presented as a cloze exercise. Students use comprehension skills to complete the gaps with their own vocabulary.

Students use a video clip as the stimulus for completing a poem. Scaffolds are provided for this process.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

A tale about a character who resolves a problem creatively provides the context for this cloze exercise. Students use their vocabulary and knowledge of grammar to fill in the missing words.

Using a picture as stimulus, students use nouns and verbs to create well-formed sentences.