eChalk: English language preview
| Here's a chance to preview our new English language section (check out the literature section too). There are loads of activities in development so keep coming back as new programs will be appearing regularly. When you subscribe you get full access to all our resources in all of our subject areas. Here's the current list of English language applications you can access when you subscribe: |
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Punctuation |
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The importance of punctuation If your punctuation isn't correct the text may convey the wrong meaning altogether! Take a look at these examples to see what I mean. |
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Punctuation pairs game A little starter activity to check whether you know the names of your punctuation symbols. This matching pairs game requires a good memory as well as a knowledge of punctuation. |
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The sentence: capital letters and full stops Practise your proofreading with this lovely resource. Correctly punctuate the text by inserting full stops and capital letters. |
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Introducing the sentence A whole class activity to help your pupils understand sentence structure. |
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Question marks and exclamation marks Can you correctly punctuate these sentences with capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks? |
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The apostrophe: contractions One use of an apostrophe is to indicate the omission of letters. All the sentences in this exercise are missing an apostrophe or two. It's your job to put them in the right place. |
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Apostrophes: bounce-words quiz A quiz to help your pupils learn when to use apostrophes and where to put them. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking. |
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The comma: lists Punctuate these sentences containing lists by inserting commas and removing the words 'and' and 'or'. |
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Grammar |
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Definitions of grammatical terms Do you know the difference between and adverb and an adjective? Would you recognise a noun if it stood up in your soup and gave you a haircut? In this game you must match the definitions to the grammatical terms. |
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Proper and common nouns Learn to identify common and proper nouns with this fun game. Stop the balloons carrying proper nouns from floating away by popping them with a pin. Sounds like fun? You bet! |
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Personal pronouns In this activity your task is to find all the personal pronouns in the text and click on them. Doesn't sound like too much to ask does it? |
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Personal and possessive pronouns In this activity your task is to fill in the gaps in a table containing personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. |
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The noun, verb and adjective curse maker A fun way to help your pupils learn and identify nouns, verbs and adjectives. |
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Tetris game: Noun, adjectives, verbs and adverbs A lovely game to help you discriminate between different word types. Is the word an adjective, noun, verb or adverb? Guide it into the correct flowerpot. |
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Sorting activity : Nouns and verbs Does what it says on the tin. |
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Verbs and nouns: Venn diagram A clever activity to get you thinking about verbs and nouns. |
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Sorting activity : Nouns, verbs and adjectives The title says it all really. |
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Verb tenses A quiz where you must fill in the gaps using the verb with the right tense! |
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Past simple Test your knowledge of verbs in the 'past Simple'! |
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Word class This quiz tests your understanding about different word classes in a sentence. |
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Spelling and pronunciation |
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| Alphabetical order moonlander games Get to grips with alphabetical order with these moonlander games. Land your spaceship on the pads in alphabetical order. |
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Prefixes and suffixes game See how many new words you can make by adding prefixes and suffixes to the root word. |
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Syllable tetris: easy A lovely game to help you discriminate syllables. Count the syllables in each falling word and guide it into the correct flowerpot. |
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Syllable tetris: hard A slightly tougher game in which you must discriminate the number of syllables in a word. Count the syllables in each falling word and guide it into the correct flowerpot. |
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Homophones: bounce-words quiz A high energy quiz that requires coordination as well as knowledge. Ideal for the interactive whiteboard. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking. NOTE: This resource requires the latest Flash Player. |
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More homophones: bounce-words quiz Another helping of homophones. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking. |
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British and American spellings Use this resource to make sure that you're aware of the variations between British and American spellings. |
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Pronunciation - 'ough' words: bounce-words quiz Sort out how the different '-ough' words should be pronounced. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking. |
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Rock hard spelling test Think your spelling is good? Try this tricky test. If you get them all right you've cheated. |
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Reading and writing |
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Styles of writing A sorting activity where you must drag the descriptions of writing styles around the screen to match them up with the correct terms. |
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Figurative language Match the jigsaw pieces together to combine the figurative language terms with their definitions. |
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Literary terms Are you frustrated by losing marks in English exams just because you can’t remember the terminology? Compete with yourself or fellow students and you’ll soon have all the terms at your disposal! |
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Word power |
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Countdown A classroom version of this classic game. What's the longest word you can make? |
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Its or it's If you get confused about whether to use ITS or IT'S then this could be the activity for you. |
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Call my bluff Improve your word power with this large archive of 'call my bluff' games (created for Dragonfly training using questions supplied by Tony Dickens). |
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Fun with words |
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Double meanings Four 'word within word' illusions. There are two words in each shape but can you find them? Take your time and look carefully and they will appear. |
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How many 'F's? Count all the Fs in a piece of text. You'd think it should be simple! |
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Coloured text mind masher Are you ready for your left brain to battle with your right brain? Sounds bizarre. Try this classic mind boggler if you're brave enough. |
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Jumbled words If the first and last letters of a word are in the correct order we can usually read it quite happily. This activity sheds some light on why most of us find 'French Connection UK' t-shirts so offensive at first glance. |
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Reading test Read a simple piece of text out loud. What can go wrong? |
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General resources |
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Dragonfly training: English language resources This archive of quizzes and Venn diagrams was created for Dragonfly's teacher training courses. The content was provided by the trainers or, in some cases, by the delegates attending the training day. |
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Class minder |
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