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0801.1.1 Parts of Speech- Know and use appropriately the meaning, forms, and functions of nouns
 * Nouns (e.g., predicate nouns, appositives)
 * Grammar Rock Nouns || What is a Noun? || Power Proofreading || Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas || What Kind of Noun? || Pick the Part of Speech || Create A Story ||
 * Parts of Speech || Review; Parts of Speech || Noun Dunk || Plural and Possessive Nouns || Noun Explorer || Part of Speech || School Rules || Once Upon a Mad Libs Junior ||
 * Prehistoric Mad Libs Junior || Alphabet Mad Libs Junior || Noun Counting Online || Word Sort || Fun Quiz || A Pronoun Takes The Place Of A Noun || Wacky Web Tales || Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, and Verbs ||
 * Pronouns (e.g., use fo proper pronoun case:objective, nominative, and possessive; pronoun-antecedent agreement)
 * Grammar Rock Pronouns || What is a Pronoun? || Power Proofreading || Pronoun Antecedent Agreement || Agreement: Pronoun Antecedent || Pronoun - Antecedent Agreement || Pronoun Case || Pronoun Case ||
 * Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas || Pick the Part of Speech || Create A Story || Review; Parts of Speech || Fun Quiz || A Pronoun Takes The Place Of A Noun || Wacky Web Tales ||
 * Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, and Verbs ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Verbs (e.g., agree with the subject in person and number, verbs that take objects, linking verbs with predicate nouns and adjectives, verb phrases, consistency in verb tense, regular and irregular verb forms, correct use of both simple and perfect tenses, proper use of active and passive voice, subjunctive mood)
 * What is a Verb? || Power Proofreading || Subject Verb Agreement || Grammar Rock Verb || Verb Classification Quiz || Subject-Verb Agreement || Copycat Game 1 || Making Subjects and Verbs Agree ||
 * Subject-Verb Agreement || Agreement: Subject-Verb || Identifying Transitive Verbs || Transitive Verbs and Linking Verbs || Transitive and Intransitive Verbs || Transitive, Intransitive and Linking Verbs || Transitive/Intransitive Verb Quiz || Interactive Verb Quiz ||
 * Verb Tenses || Parts of Speech 1 || Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement || Subject Verb Agreement || There is or There are? 1 || Tag Questions 1 || Grammar Gorillas || Pick the Part of Speech ||
 * Create A Story || Parts of Speech || Review; Parts of Speech || Verbs in Space || Part of Speech || Blast The Rocket || Floppy and the Puppies || School Rules ||
 * Once Upon a Mad Libs Junior || Prehistoric Mad Libs Junior || Alphabet Mad Libs Junior || Verb Power || 2 Bee or Nottobee || Word Sort || Fun Quiz || Wacky Web Tales ||
 * Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, and Verbs ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Adjectives (e.g., correct comparative and superlative forms, predicate adjectives, adjective phrases and clauses)
 * Adjective or Adverb: Exercise 1 || What is an Adjective? || Adjectives or Adverb: Exercise 2 || Power Proofreading || Comparative and Superlative 3 || Grammar Rock Adjective || Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas ||
 * Pick the Part of Speech || Create A Story || Parts of Speech || Review; Parts of Speech || Adjective Adventure || Part of Speech || All About Adjectives || Adjective Detective ||
 * Adjective Game || Choosing Adjectives || School Rules || Once Upon a Mad Libs Junior || Prehistoric Mad Libs Junior || Alphabet Mad Libs Junior || Word Sort || Fun Quiz ||
 * An Adverb Modifies An Adjective || Wacky Web Tales || Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, and Verbs ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Adverbs (e.g., correct comparative and superlative forms, adverb phrases and clauses, conjunctive adverbs)
 * Adjective or Adverb: Exercise 1 || What is an Adverb? || Adjectives or Adverb: Exercise 2 || Power Proofreading || Grammar Rock Adverb || Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas || Pick the Part of Speech ||
 * Create A Story || Review; Parts of Speech || Using Adverbs || Fun Quiz || An Adverb Modifies An Adjective || Wacky Web Tales ||  ||   ||
 * Conjunctions (e.g., coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions to combine sentences and sentence elements)
 * What is a Conjunction? || Conjunctions || Conjunctions || Conjunctions 1 || Conjunctions 2 || Sentence- Combining Skills || Repairing Run-on Sentences || Conjunctions and Interjections ||
 * Grammar Rock Conjunction Junction || Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas || Pick the Part of Speech || Create A Story || Review; Parts of Speech || Fun Quiz || Wacky Web Tales ||
 * Interjections
 * What is an Interjection? || Interjections || Interjections || What are interjections? || Conjunctions and Interjections || Interjections || Interjections || Interjections ||
 * Schoolhouse Rock "Interjection!" || Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas || Pick the Part of Speech || Create A Story || Review; Parts of Speech || Fun Quiz || Wacky Web Tales ||
 * Prepositions (e.g., recognize them as adjective or adverb modifiers and place within the sentence)
 * What is a Preposition? || Power Proofreading || Grammar Rock Preposition || Parts of Speech 1 || Grammar Gorillas || Pick the Part of Speech || Create A Story || Review; Parts of Speech ||
 * Fun Quiz || Wacky Web Tales ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

0801.1.2 Usage Errors- Recognize and correct usage errors:
 * Subject-Verb Agreement
 * Subject Verb Agreement || Subject Verb Agreement 2 || Self Test - Subject Verb Agreement || Making Subjects and Verbs Agree || Making Subjects and Verbs Agree: Exercise || Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement || A Second Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement || Third Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement ||
 * Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz || Subject-Verb Agreement || Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement || A Second Quiz on Subject/Verb Agreement || Third Quiz on Subject Verb Agreement || Subject Verb Agreement || Subject Verb Agreement || Agreement: Subject Verb ||
 * Subject Verb Agreement || Subject-Verb Agreement || There is or There are ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Pronoun Case (with emphasis on who/whom)
 * Pronoun Case || Choosing The Correct Pronoun Case || Choosing The Correct Pronoun Case || Pronoun Case: Practice 1 || Pronoun Case Practice || Pronoun Case ||  ||   ||
 * Double Negatives
 * Double Negative Quiz || Double Negative Worksheets || Double Negatives || Pendemonium: Star Words: Apostrophes and Double Negatives || Double Negatives ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Comparative and Superlative Forms
 * Adjective Detective || Comparative Adjectives || Superlatives ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Troublesome Word Pairs (to/too/two, their/there/they're, it's/its, sit/set, lie/lay, affect/effect, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn, accept/except, capitol/capital, principle/principal, between/among, rise/raise, stationary/stationery, where/were, which/that/who)
 * Raise or Rise? || Raise vs. Rise || The Notorious Confusibles || Notorious Confusable: Second Quiz || Notorious Confusables: Third Quiz || Notorious Confusables: Fourth Quiz || Notorious Confusables: Fifth Quiz || Quiz on Forms of Who ||
 * Sit or Set Quiz || Past Tenses of Sit/Set and Lay/Lie ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

0801.1.3 Capitalization- Use capitalization correctly (e.g., titles, business letters, quotations, proper nouns and adjectives).
 * Capital Letters || Exercise in Capitalization || Capitalization Quiz || Capitalization Quiz || Capitalization || Capitalization and End Punctuation in Sentencs || Capitalization || Capitalization Quiz ||
 * Capitalization and Punctuation Practice Quiz 1 || Capital Letters || Capitalization Worksheet 1 || Capitalization and Punctuation Worksheet 2 || Capitalization and Punctuation Worksheet 3 || Exercise in Capitalization || Quiz: Using Correct Capitalization and Punctuation || Magical Capitals ||
 * A Little Help With Capitals || Dewi the Dragon ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

0801.1.4 Punctuation Marks- Demonstrate the correct use of : 0801.1.5 Spell- Spell correctly high-frequency, misspelled words (appropriate to grade level), and words commonly used in content specific vocabulary. 0801.1.6 Sentence Structure- Demonstrate knowledge of correct sentence structure by correcting run-on sentences (e.g., using correct punctuation, forming separate sentences, using coordinating or subordinating clauses) and sentence fragments (e.g., supplying the missing sentence elements). 0801.1.7 Clauses and Phrases- Distinguish between clauses (adjective, adverb, noun) and phrases (adjective, adverb, appositive, prepositional, verb, verbal (including gerunds and participles). 0801.1.8 Clauses- Differentiate between independent and subordinate clauses. 0801.1.9 Sentence Structure- Recognize and differentiate among simple, compound, and complex sentences.
 * Commas (e.g., after introductory words, phrases or clauses; setting off appositives and interrupters; before coordinating conjunction joining independent clauses to form compound sentences)
 * Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences || Using Commas: Exercise 1 || Using Commas: Exercise 2 || Using Commas: Exercise 3 || Using Commas: Exercise 4 || Using Commas: Exercise 5 || Power Proofreading || Quiz on Commas Usage ||
 * Using Commas || Proofreading for Commas || Review: the Comma || Comma Chameleon || Going To Work With Commas || Punctuation || Punctuation || Rules of Punctuation ||
 * Colons (e.g., in business letter, before a list of items in a series, before a long or formal quotation)
 * Colon || Semicolons and Colons Quiz || Using Colons Effectively || Quotation Marks and Colons || Punctuation || Punctuation || Rules of Punctuation ||  ||
 * Semicolons (e.g., combining sentences between items in a series when the items already contain commas, before conjunctive adverbs)
 * Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences || Semicolon || Power Proofreading || Semicolons in Compound Sentences || Semicolons and Colons Quiz || Punctuation || Rules of Punctuation ||  ||
 * Underlining and italicizing (e.g., titles; certain words, letters, figures, foreign words)
 * Quotation Marks (e.g., with direct quotations, to set off dialogue, in titles, correct use with end marks)
 * Quiz on Using Quotation Marks || Quotation Marks and Colons || Quotation Marks: Exercise 1 || Quotation Marks || The Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks || Quotation Marks || Single Quotation Marks || Quotation Marks worksheet 1 ||
 * Using Quotation Marks Worksheet 1 || Using Quotation Marks Worksheet 2 || Quotation Marks and Paragraph Breaks || Using Quotation Marks Worksheet 4 || Quotation Marks Worksheet 1 || Quotation Marks Worksheet 1 || Punctuation || Punctuation ||
 * Rules of Punctuation ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Apostrophes (e.g., to form both singular and plural possessives)
 * Power Proofreading || Punctuation || Pendemonium: Star Words: Apostrophes and Double Negatives || Rules of Punctuation ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Hyphens
 * Punctuation ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * End Marks
 * Punctuation || Punctuation || Rules of Punctuation || Dewi the Dragon || Sentence Clubhouse ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Punctuation || Punctuation || Rules of Punctuation || Dewi the Dragon || Sentence Clubhouse ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Look Cover Write and Check || The Most Often Misspelled Words in English || Spelling Practice || Interactive Spelling Bee || Spelling Bee The Game || Spelling: EI/IE Rules, Exercise 1 || Spelling: EI/IE Rules, Exercise 2 || Spelling Exercises for -ible or -able ||
 * Spelling Practice || Most Commonly Misspelled Words || Spelling Wizard || Spelling List for Advanced Students || Easily Confused Words || The Trouble With Spell Checkers || Word Builder || Spelling List for Grade 8 ||
 * Run-On Sentences || This is the Test || Avoiding Comma Splices || Avoiding Comma Splices || Correcting Run-on Sentences || Correcting Run-on Sentences || Run-on Sentences: Summary of Solutions || Run-on Sentences: Correcting Run-on Sentences ||
 * Repairing Run-on Sentences || Fragments and Run-ons || Sentence Fragments || Run-on Sentences, Comma Splices || Sentence Fragments || Identifying Sentence Problems || Fragments Exercise 1 || Fragments Exercise 2 ||
 * Fragments Exercise 3 || Fragments Exercise 4 || Fragments Exercise 5 || Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 1 || Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 2 || Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 3 || Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 3 || Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 3 ||
 * Revising Sentence Fragments || Sentence Fragments || Repairing Sentence Fragments || Connecting Writing With Grammar ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Appositives || Appositives || Appositives || Phrases Quiz 2 || Be Positive About Appositives || The Garden of Phrases || Recognizing the Function of Phrases || Infinitives ||
 * Appositives || Phrase Practice Exercise || Power Proofreading || Appositives: Restrictive and Non-Restrictive || Phrases of Clauses ||  ||   ||   ||
 * The Clause || Clauses || Clauses: The Essential Building Blocks || The Function of Clauses || Identifying Clauses || Identifying Independent Clauses || Independent Clauses II || Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses ||
 * Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses || Identifying Independent Clauses and Independent Clauses || Independent and Subordinate Clauses || Kinds of Clauses || Main and Subordinate Clauses || Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation || Sentence Speedway ||  ||
 * Compound and Complex Sentences || Identifying Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences || Compound/Complex Sentences || Putting Sentences Together || Putting Sentences Together Worksheets || Quiz on Sentence Types || Review: Sentence Structure || Sentence Sort ||
 * Sentences: Simple, Compound, Complex || Simple, Compound, Complex || Types of Sentences: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex || Simple and Compound Sentences || Identifying Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences || Sentence Combining || Putting Sentences Together Tutor Notes || Sentence Combining Relay ||
 * Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation ||  || Connecting Writing With Grammar || Simple and Compound Sentences ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * [|0801.1.10] || [|Use Reference Sources] - Use printed and electronic dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries to determine the pronunciation, spelling, and part of speech of words; to clarify meaning and improve understanding of words (including connotation and denotation); and to distinguish among contextually appropriate synonyms and definitions. ||
 * [|0801.1.11] || [|Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms] - Define and recognize word synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. ||
 * [|0801.1.12] || [|Latin and Greek Roots] - Identify and define English words derived from Latin and Greek words that form common roots (e.g., audio, auto, malus) and recognize English words that are based on them (e.g., audible, autobiography, malice). ||
 * [|0801.1.13] || [|Roots and Affixes] - Use roots and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, to clarify the meaning of familiar words, and to make connections with word families (e.g., suffixes such as -phobia and -ology). ||
 * [|0801.1.14] || [|Multi-Meaning Words] - Continue to use previously learned strategies to distinguish among multi-meaning words and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. ||
 * [|0801.1.15] || [|Textual Structure] - Use textual structure (e.g., examples of cause-effect and compare-contrast relationships) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or distinguish multi-meaning words in more challenging texts about concrete and abstract topics (e.g., After the harvest, we had an //abundance// of apples, and so we made apple pie, apple sauce, and apple juice). ||
 * [|0801.1.16] || [|Cultural and Regional] - Recognize and appreciate cultural and regional differences signaled by word usage and vocabulary. ||
 * [|0801.1.17] || [|Understand Foreign Phrases] - Demonstrate understanding of common phrases and terms from other languages commonly used in English (e.g., RSVP, //déjà vu//, //faux pas//, //du// //jour//, //bon voyage//, //alma mater//, //cum laude//, //femme fatale//, //esprit de corps//, verbatim). ||
 * ===State Performance Indicators=== ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.1] || [|Nouns and Pronouns] - Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives, direct/indirect objects, predicate nouns) and pronouns (i.e., reflexive, interrogative, demonstrative) within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.2] || [|Verbs] - Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, perfect tenses, verb phrases) within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.3] || [|Adjectives and Adverbs] - Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative/superlative, adjective clauses) and adverbs (i.e., comparative/superlative) within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.4] || [|Conjunctions and Interjections] - Identify the correct use of conjunctions (i.e., coordinating, correlative, subordinating) and interjections within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.5] || [|Prepositions] - Identify the correct placement of prepositions and prepositional phrases within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.6] || [|Commas] - Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters) within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.7] || [|Sentence Combining] - Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases or clauses). ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.8] || [|Run-On Sentences] - Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, periods to join or separate elements). ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.9] || [|Gerund and Participial Phrases] - Identify the appropriate use of gerund and participial phrases. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.10] || [|Appositives and Infinitives] - Identify the correct use of appositives/appositive phrases and infinitive/infinitive phrases within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.11] || [|Personal Pronouns] - Select the correct pronoun-antecedent agreement for personal pronouns within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.12] || [|Spelling] - Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.13] || [|Apostrophes] - Form singular and plural possessive using apostrophes correctly. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.14] || [|Recognize Usage Errors] - Recognize usage errors occurring within context (i.e., subject-verb agreement, pronoun case, double negatives, comparative/superlative forms, troublesome word pairs: {to/too/two, their/there/they’re, its/it’s, sit/set, lie/lay, affect/effect, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn, accept/except, capitol/capital, principle/principal, between/among, rise/raise, stationary/stationery, where/were, which/that/who})within context. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.15] || [|Underlining or Italicizing] - Select the appropriate use of underlining/italicizing with titles, specific words, numbers, letters, and figures. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.16] || [|Unfamiliar Words] - Use context clues and/or knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.17] || [|Synonym or Antonym] - Choose the correct meaning/usage of a multi-meaning word by replacing the word in context with an appropriate synonym or antonym. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.18] || [|Stressed or Unstressed Syllable] - Recognize the effect of stressed or unstressed syllable to aid in identifying the meaning of multiple meaning words. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.19] || [|Vocabulary] - Recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary. ||
 * [|SPI 0801.1.20] || [|Foreign Phrases] - Identify commonly used foreign words and phrases (i.e., RSVP, //déjà vu//, //faux pas//, //du// //jour//, //bon voyage//, //alma mater//, //cum laude//, //femme fatale//, //esprit de corps//, verbatim). ||
 * [|Review Help] || Resources to help review Eighth Grade English Language Arts standards ||

Research Alexandria Researcher (Quia) Bibliomania OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab Citation Machine Summarizing (Quia) Dictionary vs. Thesaurus (Quia) Reference Resources (Quia)

Atlas World Atlas World Book

Grammar Interactive Quizzes Practice With Prefixes Quiz on Subject-Verb Agreement (Grammar) Self Test/Agreement of Pronouns and Antecedents

Reading Making a Long Story Short

Main Idea What's the Big Idea? (Harcourt School)

Poetry Giggle Poetry

Writing Persuasion Map (Read Write Think)

Figurative Language (Kids Konnect) Language Arts Lesson (Grade 7-8) (eTap) What Can You Infer? (Quia) Part of Speech (Quia) Grade 8/Reading-Language Arts (IQ) Grade 7/Reading (IQ) Grade 6/Reading (IQ) High School/Reading (IQ)