Even students who have had a lot of experience writing often complain that they have nothing to write about! But what they need isn't topics, but the ability to organize and clarify their thoughts around a topic and develop that content into sentences, and those sentences into paragraphs. All the help your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum is in this book.
Milliken's Essential English series for grades 1-8 is designed to enable students to use the English language in both written and oral communications effectively and with ease and confidence. Grade 7/8 includes 55 pages with a variety of activities including lessons on types of sentences, direct and indirect objects, independent and subordinate clauses, simple, compound and complex sentences, troublesome words, corrective and correlative conjunctions, gerunds, infinitives, and more. Answer keys are included.
Use the creative ideas in this book to put back the fun in language fundamentals! Your students will enjoy the humorous approach the author takes with topics such as: punctuation, nouns, homonyms, alliteration, sentences, vocabulary building and more. They'll learn how to put words and sentences in sequence in a variety of ways; follow directions; look for and correct mistakes in spelling, punctuation and word usage and they'll discover new words in which they can add to their expanding vocabulary!
Author Judy Steiner-Williams concentrates on helping you apply the basic principles so you can avoid making the most common mistakes. Learn about the different parts of speech, possessive rules, and the difference between writing vs. spelling numbers.
Topics include: Why does grammar matter?, Diagramming sentences, Understanding, pronouns, Working with adjectives and adverbs, Making sentences parallel, Deciding when to use active and passive voice, Using commas correctly, Practicing grammar rules
