This middle school grammar curriculum covers three years of standards for grades 6, 7, and 8 in one bundle — parts of speech, verbs, verbals, sentence structure, punctuation, and common grammar errors, all built for full-year instruction, review, or scaffolding at any grade level.
Every topic below links to its own presentation, worksheets, task cards, and hands-on activities, so you can teach the whole curriculum in sequence or pull individual concepts on their own. Grammar is taught in context — connected to writing, nonfiction, and literature — rather than drilled in isolation.
The Eight Parts of Speech
The foundation every other grammar concept builds on. For older students to apply vocabulary to writing, they must understand the parts of speech.
Nouns · Pronouns · Verbs · Adjectives · Adverbs · Prepositions · Conjunctions · interjections · anchor posters (Vivid & Muted)
All About Verbs
Beyond basic identification — voice, mood, and verb type in depth. Verbs are the powerhouses of sentences; let’s teach students how to use them with purpose.
Action/Linking/Helping Verbs · Active/Passive Voice (Direct Instruction) · Active/Passive Voice (Multimedia) · Verb Mood
Verbals
Before we can correct common errors like misplaced and dangling modifiers, students must understand verbals and verbal phrases.
Participles, infinitives, gerunds
Parts of a Sentence
The nuts and bolts of a sentence: Students must understand the basics of a sentence before they work toward more complex concepts like sentence structure.
Subjects/verbs, direct/indirect objects, objective complement, predicate nouns/adjectives
Phrases and Clauses
Language standards are clear that students must understand and use a variety of phrases and clauses in their writing. Let’s have fun while we teach these structures!
Individual: prepositional, appositive, gerund, infinitive, participial, independent/dependent clauses
Sentence Structure
Build on one of the most important components of the science of reading with sentence structure activities.
Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex with specific sentence combining following the science of reading best practices.
Punctuation
More tools in their toolboxes! Explore the nuances of multiple punctuation marks.
Commas, colons/ellipses/dashes/hyphens/quotation marks, apostrophes, coordinate adjectives
Common Grammar Errors
The concepts students most often get wrong in their own writing—Let’s address them to empower our young writers.
Adjective/adverb, verb mood errors, incomplete sentences, misplaced/dangling modifiers, often confused words, pronoun-antecedent errors, subject-verb agreement
Bigger Pieces in the Curriculum
More feedback, more scaffolding, and real alternatives to the grammar worksheet.
Pretest/posttest, textbook, manipulatives, self-grading bundle, worksheets bundle, task cards bundle, coloring activities
Seasonal Grammar Activities
Add fun with grammar activities through seasonal material.
Fall, Halloween, Winter Coloring, Winter Mentor Sentences, Valentine’s Day, Spring Spiral Review
Why This Curriculum Exists
Years ago, I set out to build a grammar curriculum for every kind of learner — one that didn’t make students dread grammar, and that gave teachers real support instead of just more worksheets. After Callisto Media published my first book, The English Grammar Workbook, teachers and parents asked for hands-on activities to go with it. This bundle grew from that ask, and it keeps growing.
“All I can say is, wow! I wish I had bought this much sooner… Thank you that I can finally say I have a complete grammar resource with nothing else necessary!”
How much is really in here? Over 2,000 pages. You won’t use it all in one year, in one class — pull from it as students need it, and scaffold or differentiate as you go.
Updates? Free, for life. I update multiple times a year and never charge twice for the same product.
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