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Grammar Bytes!
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Activity Description
Grammar Bytes has many activities for intermediate and advanced ESL, and ABE students. A contemporary looking site with an Index of Grammar Terms, Interactive Exercises with accompanying Handouts For students, and Grammar Rules. It includes PowerPoint presentations which will cut down on your preparation time and a few YouTube videos. Makes a difficult topic enjoyable.
Preparation
- Preview the site. It includes terms, exercises, handouts, and PowerPoint presentations.
- Decide how it will best meet your students' needs. If you decide to use the Example Document Grammar Bytes worksheet (above), print it or send it digitally to your students.
How-To
- Choose a grammar topic by selecting from those available under Terms or Rules .
- Discuss the topic in class.
- Present the Web site.
- Go over the presentation/handout.
- Do activity as class.
- Make assignment to pair/group. Mix reading levels so all students can participate. Hand out Example Document, Grammar Bytes.
- Have students present their assigned topics to the class.
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
Levels
- Low
- Intermediate
- High
- All Levels
Documents
- Grammar Bytes.docx - Grammar Bytes
Subjects
- Reasoning Through Language Arts
- Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
- Writing
- Basic Sentences
- Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
- Parts of Speech
Tags
adjectives, adverbs, capitalization, chomp chomp, chompchomp, comma splices, coordination and subordination, fragments, fused sentences, grammar bytes, grammarbytes, misplaced modifiers, misused words, parallel structure, parts of speech, prefix, pronoun reference, pronoun shift, pronouns, punctuation, spelling, subject-verb agreement, suffix, tense shifts, verb forms