This document provides 30 activities for building vocabulary and engaging junior secondary students with grammar and punctuation. It discusses strategies for building vocabulary, such as activating prior knowledge, introducing new words, and fun activities. It also covers researching and teaching parts of speech, punctuation, apostrophes, verb agreement, tense, and sentence structure. For each grammar concept, it lists specific activities teachers can use, such as parts of speech taboo, road sign punctuation, and sentence structure editing. The overall document serves as a resource for teachers to develop lessons focused on vocabulary development and different grammar concepts.

1. 30 activities for building vocabulary
and engaging junior secondary
students with grammar &
punctuation
A Tic k ing M in d P D

2. TO BEGIN WITH...
Sentence slider

3. NUTS & BOLTS
LITERACY STUFF
WHAT IS YOUR GRAMMAR
FOCUS IN EACH UNIT?

4. Building vocabulary

5. In this pd...
Vocabulary research
Strategies for building vocabulary
Grammar Research
Teaching parts of speech, punctuation,
apostrophes, verb agreement, tense, sentence
structure

6. What the research We need to
says teach vocab

7. Building vocabulary
Activating prior knowledge:
Vocabulary brainstorm
Vocabulary brainstorm + Visuwords / Thsrs
Word link

8. Building Vocabulary

9. Building Vocabulary

10. Building vocabulary
Introducing new words:
This word in my own words means...
Another word for this word is...
An example of this word is...
A picture of this word is...
Discovery box

11. Building vocabulary
Word journey
Word grid

12. Building vocabulary
Fun activities:
Glogster
Weboword
3 guess pictionary
Create your own word
Free rice

13. WEBOWORD

14. Free Rice

15. Grammar & Punctuation

16. Grammar research
We need to teach grammar...
In context...

17. Parts of speech
Why are parts of speech important?
If a sentence is like a story, the parts of speech
are like the characters....

18. Parts of speech

19. Parts of speech
Parts of speech taboo
Explain to me the rules of chess
without using the words: Chess,
pieces, black, white, board, squares,
any of the names of the pieces, move,
check, check mate

20. Parts of speech
Post-it-note adjectives and nouns
Abstract nouns

21. Parts of speech
Adverb poetry
Slowly,
Adverb,
Lazily,
Adverb,
Grumpily,
Adverb,
I went to
Noun + verb,
Class.
Phrase.

22. Parts of speech
Parts of speech
similes A guide
A cheetah A street sign
Paint A flashing neon
light
A car
A mountain
An encyclopedia

23. Parts of speech

24. Parts of speech
Parts of speech reduction
The green goblin sleeps well in his 12 room
mansion.
The band played so loud I needed ear surgery the
next day.
I went to school and then challenged the principal
to a fight.

25. Parts of speech
Applying in writing:
Preview parts of speech
Parts of speech analysis

26. Punctuation

27. Punctuation
How much do students already know
The Great Grammar Adventure
Punctuation grouping:
. () ! , ? : “ “

28. Punctuation
• Punctuation input:
• Punctuation picture books
• Punctuation clips

29. Punctuation Picture Book

30. Punctuation

31. Punctuation
Punctuation association

32. Punctuation
Punctuation similes:
This punctuation mark is like...
The punctuation mark I am most like.../Least
like...

33. PUNCTUATION
Road sign punctuation

34. ROAD SIGN PUNCTUATION
Handout 1

35. Punctuation
Applying in context:
Punctuation edit 1-2-3
Punctuation scrapbook

36. Apostrophes
Teaching ownership
Providing memorable input

37. Apostrophes

38. Apostrophes

39. Apostrophes
Model - Explain - Apply - Explain Back
Wanted posters
Apostrophe misuse award

40. Apostrophes

41. Apostrophes
Applying in context:
Ownership incentive

42. Verb agreement
What’s wrong with these statements?

43. Subject verb agreement

44. Verb agreement
Applying in writing:
Grammar check in Microsoft Word

45. Verb agreement

46. HOMOPHONES
There, their, they’re
Your, you’re
Its, it’s
To, too
Where, we’re
Hear, here

47. HOMOPHONES
Group brainstorm
Mnemonics
Homophone beachball

48. Flocabulary
Mnemonics

49. Homophones
Homophone review

50. Tense
Understanding tense (Great Grammar
Adventure)
Picture tense

51. Tense
Tense review

52. TENSE

53. Sentence structure
Knowing the labels for sentence types is less
important than having the capacity to
experiment with them
What do you already know about sentence
structure?
John kicked the dog.

54. Sentence Structure
Start
In between
End

55. Sentence Structure
Using only definite and indefinite articles, nouns,
adjectives, verbs and adverbs (and no internal
punctuation), what is the longest sentence you
can create.
What do you need to make the sentence longer?

56. Sentence Structure
Sentence starters...
He fell...

57. Sentence Structure
Quality tasks (Hint fiction / tweet stories)
They buried him deep. Again.
Sentence structure edit

58. Sentence structure

59. Thank you...