Sometimes a letter makes a huge difference in a word. For example : moral and morale. Print out this free worksheet for your students and they can practice using the correct word with the proper meaning.
Commonly Confused Words: Personal vs. Personnel
The director of personnel told the employee it was not personal, but she was being let go. Personal and personnel sound similar but mean different things. Here is a free worksheet to print out for your students. They will fill in the blank and circle the correct word to practice the correct use of these words!
Commonly Confused Words: Proceed vs. Precede
Some words may sound alike but have different meanings. Print out this free worksheet on proceed vs. precede for your students to complete. With exercises to help you understand where and when to use each word, students will be up to speed in no time.
Commonly Confused Words: Since vs. Sense
My mom told me I have no common sense. Since the rain began I have gotten very wet! Since and sense sound alike but do not mean the same thing. With this free worksheet you print out for your students, they will complete the sentences using the correct word. A great tool for use in any classroom
Confusing Words: Which Is Correct?
Time to work with some confusing word pairs! Students will circle the correct word to complete each sentence. Students practice with word pairs like: aid/aide, bare/bear, accept/except, and council/counsel.
Context Clues: The Secret Garden
With a passage from “A Secret Garden,” this worksheet helps your student find the meaning of unknown words.
Context Clues: Using the Helpful Grid
This worksheet includes a grid to help your student determine word meanings.
Context Clues: Words in Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic is the text for this worksheet on context clues.
Correct It!
Use this “Correcting, Proofing, and Editing” activity to teach your students the importance of proofreading by correcting spelling mistakes.
Correct the Paragraph
Have your students proofread and correct paragraphs with this helpful editing worksheet.
Correct the Verbs
With this printable grammar worksheet, students will read through a series of sentences and answer the corresponding questions. In each sentence, atleast one verb is used incorrectly. Students will be asked to replace the incorrectly used verb with the correct one.
Correcting Comma Splices
Time to correct some comma errors!
Correcting Mistakes: Rewrite the Sentences
Encourage your students to check for sentence mistakes with this “Rewrite the Sentences” classroom activity.
Correcting Run-on Sentences: Commas and Conjunctions
This worksheet runs off those run-on sentences!
Desert vs. Dessert – Commonly Confused Words Worksheet
Desert or dessert: one’s dry and the other is sweet!
Determine the Meaning
Your student will select the word with a similar meaning in this context clue worksheet.
Directional Prepositions
A worksheet where students complete the sentences using directional prepositions like “beyond” and “toward”.
Exclamation Points and Quotation Marks: Inside or Outside?
This worksheet helps your student understand where to put an exclamation point in relation to quotation marks.
Eyes Front! Idiom Practice
Your students will learn what is an idiom by writing their own sentences with an idiom, and then explaining what their idiom means.
Find It! Sentences with Prepositional Phrases
Work on identifying prepositional phrases with this printable classroom activity. Students will complete the worksheet by reading through the given sentences and circling the number of the sentences that have a prepositional phrase. This activity is great for 4th – 5th grade, but can be used where felt appropriate.