Daily Grammar Practice for Middle School

Middle school students LOVE grammar, right?  

With daily practice and continuous positive reinforcement, students will improve their grammar and find confidence in English Language Arts. 

In only 30 minutes 4 times per week, we will help students feel confident in learning and using grammar to communicate. This is an interactive class, student participation is integral to student success.  

Each day will include three segments: a warm-up journal question to practice communication skills, grammar practice, and either a lesson or a game to practice the skill we are focusing on for the week. 

Each week is unique and does not require prior knowledge from previous classes. However, students are expected to have a basic knowledge of parts of speech (nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions), as well as basic punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.  

Week of 5/5 - Run on Sentences
Week of 5/12 - Active vs. Passive Voice
Week of 5/19 - Commas and Complex Sentences
Week of 5/26 - Compound-Complex Sentences
Week of 6/2 - Parts of Speech Review 
Week of 6/9 - Punctuation Review
Week of 6/16 - Subjects, Predicates and Simple Sentences
Week of 6/23 - Direct Objects and Indirect Objects
Week of 6/30 - Commas
Week of 7/7 - Compound Sentences
Week of 7/14 - Complex Sentences
Week of 7/21 - Fragments and Run on Sentences
Week of 7/28 - Semi Colons and Colons
Week of 8/4 - Parentheses and Dashes
Week of 8/11 - Function of Clauses 
Week of 8/18 - Function of Phrases
Week of 8/25 - Sentences, Fragments and Run-ons
Week of 9/1 - Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
Week of 9/8 - Objective, Subjective and Possessive Pronouns
Week of 9/15 - Analogies
Week of 9/22 - Nonrestrictive Clauses  
Week of 9/29 - Connotation and Denotation 
Week of 10/6 - Eliminate Wordiness
Week of 10/13 - Style and Tone
Week of 10/20 - Sentence Variety
Week of 10/27 - Function of Root Words
Week of 11/4 - Simple Sentences
Week of 11/11 - Compound Sentences
Week of 11/18 - Dangling Participles
Week of 11/25 - Coordinate or Cumulative Adjectives
Week of 12/1 - Commas and Apostrophes mini-lesson
Week of 12/8 - Verb Tense and Precise Word Usage
Week of 12/15 - Synonyms, Antonyms and Thesaurus Usage
Week of 12/22 [Winter break]
Week of 12/29 - Figurative Languages: Idioms and Adages
Week of 1/5 - Allusions
Week of 1/12 - Run-on Sentences
Week of 1/19 - Word Meanings
Week of 1/26 - Sentences
Week of 2/2 - Commas and Compound Sentences
Week of 2/9 - Connotation and Denotation
Week of 2/16 - Word Relationships - Analogies
Week of 2/23 - Figurative Language (hyperbole and idioms)
Week of 3/2 - Figurative Language (onomatopoeia and personification) 
Week of 3/9 - Parentheses and Dashes 
Week of 3/16 - Commas
Week of 3/23 - Homonyms and Homophones
Week of 3/30 - Context Clues
Week of 4/6 - Apostrophes
Week of 4/13 - Semi Colons and Colons
Week of 4/20 - Quotation Marks
Week of 4/27 - Similes and Metaphors