Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s," but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
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In these two lesson plans, students will learn to identify issues of importance, form their opinions, and support those opinions with evidence and reason. They will also learn how to state their feelings in a persuasive manner.

A collective noun is a word that refers to a group, such as a collection, a herd, a team!
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A relative adverb is a word that talks about a place, time, or reason for something. Remember the three "w's": where, when, and why.
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Pronoun case is determined by how we use the pronoun in a sentence. There are three ways: subjective, when the pronoun does something; objective, when something is done to our pronoun;

Everyone in the Botsford family is excited to attend the Magician's Convention, except for Becky.

Mr. Botsford unknowingly starts the city's latest fashion trend.

Rex, AKA Kid Math, is trying to keep his identity a secret from the kids at school, but he's not doing a very good job.

The Burnham Brothers sing "Reading with Feeling," a song explaining the importance of reading with the feelings ascribed to the characters and events. This resource teaches reading techniques and fluency.

When Becky registers for a mini golf tournament, she learns about honor in this competitive sport.
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Conjunctions are a part of a speech that connects different parts of a sentence, such as groups of words, clauses, or phrases.

Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future.

Capitalizing is extremely important. Not only is it proper writing, but it also makes writing look polished and finished. Learn what should be capitalized and what shouldn't!

A dictionary is one of the most useful reference books anybody could ever use. Learn how to properly understand a dictionary's formatting and content!

Prepositions indicate locations, whether physical or in time. Around, in, outside, before, during. Prepositions help us know the when and where!

While plural nouns often indicate more than one of something with a simple "s" or "es," irregular plural nouns do not. They change the word entirely. Elf becomes elves, tooth becomes teeth!

Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb.

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

Conjunctions can join two separate clauses, but sometimes they need commas. Learn how to do so correctly.

Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either through italics (in typing) or underlining (handwriting).