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Language Arts Pages

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Dictionary Skills

  1. ABC Order and Dictionary Skills
  2. ABC Order -- Guide Words and the Dictionary
  3. ABC Order -- Sorting Cards
  4. Dewey Decimal Classification
  5. Research Paper

Spelling

  1. Homophones
  2. Spelling Rules
  3. Spelling and Mispronunciation
  4. Commonly Misspelled Words
  5. Words Ending in Y
  6. Words with ie or ei

Vocabulary

  1. Make a Word Book
  2. Some Ideas to Study Words
  3. Greek Prefixes
  4. Vocabulary Words

Grammar

  1. Modifiers: Adjectives & Adverbs
  2. Ad-Libs
  3. Adverbs
  4. Conjugation of Drive
  5. Conjunctions
  6. Copy Work and Dictation
  7. Descriptive Adjectives
  8. Helping Verbs
  9. Irregular Verbs
  10. Limiting Adjectives and Determiners
  11. Linking Verbs
  12. Noun Phrase Builders
  13. Noun: Singular and Plural
  14. Parts of Speech: Nouns
  15. Objects in Sentences
  16. Preposition Bingo Cards
  17. Prepositional Phrases
  18. Pronouns
  19. Verbs

Composition

  1. Add To A Story
  2. Book Report
  3. From Charlotte Mason - The Art of Narrating
  4. Its and It's
  5. Lie or Lay
  6. Outlines and Laundry
  7. Composition and Outlining with Essays I and II
  8. Parallelism in Writing
  9. Sentence Starters
  10. There, Their, and They're
  11. Ease Into Writing: Timed Writing
  12. To, Too, and Two
  13. Who Needs an Illustration, Sentence Building Activity Two
  14. Who Needs an Illustration, Sentence Building Activity One
  15. Writing For an Audience
  16. Your and You're

Reviews, Books

  1. Jensen's Format Writing Review
  2. Jensen's Format Writing -Daily Schedule
  3. Jensen's Format Writing, Grading the Assignments
  4. Jensen's Format Writing -Syllabus for Sections 1-4
  5. Jensen's Format Writing - Table of Contents
  6. Natural Speller
  7. eBook- Speaking and Writing English
  8. Review: Wordsmith, A creative writing course for young people, By Janie B. Cheaney
  9. Writing Strands
  10. Bargain Books for Grade School
  11. Classic Dover Bargain Novels for High School
Other
  1. From Charlotte Mason - The Art of Narrating
  2. Using the Composition Filler Paper
  3. Copy Work and Dictation
  4. Ad Libs taken from A Christmas Carol
  5. Ad Libs taken from Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 97 in 24 Hours
  6. Ad Libs taken from a very old Free-Westinghouse Electric Sewing Machine Manual
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Affect - Means to influence; as "Trade would be seriously affected by a war." Affect is never used as a noun -- always as a verb. Affect is often confused with effect.

Effect (verb) means to bring to pass; as "He effected a reconciliation."
Effect (noun) means result; as "The drug had a fatal effect."

Can - Denotes power or ability. Can should not be used to denote permission.

Except (verb) means to exclude; as "He alone was excepted from the amnesty." Except (preposition) means with the exception (i.e., exclusion) of; as "All's lost except honor." Except is not to be confused with accept, which means to receive.

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