Benchmark 1 Interactive Activities and Games
Identifying the Author's Purpose - 1
Practice Author's Purpose - 2
Play this game and identify the type of sentence.
GAME! Quia: Rags to Riches
This game tests your knowledge of simple subjects and simple predicates
Watch a short movie with Tim and Moby that explains subjects and predicates, then take a pop quiz. NOTE: This site is available by subscription only.
Watch this animated movie about strengthening sentences, then try the quiz.
Tim and Moby explain imperative, declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. Take the quiz to test what you've learned.
Watch as Tim and Moby explain run-on sentences in this short video, then take the quiz.
This site has color coded sentences to show parts of speech. Learn about subject and predicate, simple subjects, simple predicate, and compound subjects. Note: There are ads on a linked site
Printable: What's Missing?
This site has a worksheet asking student's to circle what (subject or predicate) is missing from the given sentence.
IDENTIFY AND USE PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE TENSE VERBS
Match the present tense verb with its correct past tense form.
BrainPOPJr: Tenses: Background Information & Activities
Check out these teacher and family activities for reinforcing verb tenses.
Practice identifying the correct irregular verb in this interactive lesson. NOTE: This site includes ads.
IDENTIFY ANSWERS IN TEXT
Identify Main Idea - Online quiz. Read each paragraph and select the main idea.
Main Idea - Read the paragraph and select the main idea.
| Comprehension: Narrative | |
 | Below 181 |
| 181-190 |
| 191-200 |
| 201-210 |
| 211-220 |
| Above 220 |
| Comprehension: Informational | |
| Below 181 |
| 181-190 |
| 191-200 |
| 201-210 |
| 211-220 |
| 221-230 |
| Above 230 |
The links below were found on: Academic Skills Builders
Content: Parts of Speech
Players: 1
Word Invasion provides practice in parts of speech.
Jellyfish with words in them drift toward the octopus at the bottom.
Content: Word Recognition
Players: 4
Kitten Hop is a multi-player word recognition game that allows students from anywhere in the world to compete against one another while practicing word recognition!
Content: Antonyms, Synonyms, and Homonyms
Players: 4
Furious Frogs is a multi-player game that allows students from anywhere in the world to compete against one another while matching antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms!
Coconut VowelsContent: Vowels
Players: 1
Coconut Vowels provides practice in spelling. Coconuts with words in them fall to the beach. The student must match missing letters to the correct word coconut.
The following Grammar Games were found on Shepard Software site: