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Language Arts Team Names

Five language arts team names a press: grammar puns, punctuation puns, vocabulary teams, and ELA block and English class groups.

Language Arts Team Names

All 117
  1. Loquacious BunchLoquacious means talkative.
  2. Language Arts Majors
  3. Grammatically Correct
  4. Word HoardWord hoard revives Old English wordhord, a treasury of words: a vocabulary.
  5. Either Slash OrThe slash can stand between alternatives, as in and/or.

All 117 names

Grammar puns 30

  • A Tense Situation
  • Adverbially Speaking
  • Between You and Me
  • Comparatively Better The comparative degree sets one thing against another: bigger, better.
  • Compound Subjects A compound subject is two or more noun phrases joined into one subject.
  • The Definite Articles The is the definite article of English; a and an are the indefinite ones.
  • Direct Objects
  • The FANBOYS FANBOYS is a memory aid for the coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so.
  • Geese Not Gooses
  • Grammar and Glamour Glamour came into English from Scots, where it was an altered form of an old word for grammar.
  • Grammatically Correct
  • The Helping Verbs A helping, or auxiliary, verb adds tense or mood to a main verb, as have does in have finished.
  • The Interjections An interjection, such as wow or ouch, stands on its own and voices a sudden feeling.
  • Intransitive and Proud An intransitive verb takes no object.
  • Irregular Plurals
  • Linking Verbs United A linking verb, such as be, seem or become, joins the subject to a word that describes it.
  • More Better Grammar
  • My Friends and I
  • Persons Places and Things A noun names something: a living creature, a place, an action, a quality or an idea.
  • Prepositional Phrases A prepositional phrase is a preposition with its complement, usually a noun phrase.
  • Present Perfect The present perfect, as in I have finished, tells of a past event that matters now.
  • Relative Clauses A relative clause modifies a noun, as that won does in the team that won.
  • Simply Superlative The superlative degree compares three or more things: biggest, most.
  • Uncommon Nouns
  • The Verbals Verbals are verb forms that do not act as the predicate: infinitives, participles and gerunds.
  • Verbs in Action
  • Whose Who's Who
  • Winning Is a Gerund In English a gerund is an -ing verb form used as a noun.
  • With Our Complements A subject complement follows a linking verb and completes the meaning of the subject.
  • Yikes and Hooray

Punctuation and sentence puns 28

  • And Per Se And Ampersand is a slurring of and per se and, the old way to name the sign when spelling aloud.
  • Brackets, Not Parentheses In American English brackets are the square marks; in British English the word means the round ones.
  • Caret Tops A caret is the V-shaped proofreading mark that shows where to insert something.
  • Closing Quotation Marks Quotation marks are used in pairs: an opening mark and a closing mark.
  • Comma Again
  • Complete Sentences Only
  • Declarative Statements
  • Either Slash Or The slash can stand between alternatives, as in and/or.
  • Fragments. Like This.
  • In Title Case Title case capitalizes every word of a title except minor ones such as articles and short prepositions.
  • Indent Here An indent is the empty space that marks the start of a paragraph.
  • The Interrogatives An interrogative is a clause formed to ask a question.
  • Italicized for Emphasis
  • Its Has No Apostrophe Possessive pronouns such as its, hers, ours and theirs take no apostrophe.
  • Let It Stet Stet is Latin for let it stand: a proofreader's note to ignore a marked change.
  • New Paragraph, New Idea
  • Octothorpe Club Octothorpe is another name for the number sign.
  • One Space After the Period Most style guides now call for a single space after the end of a sentence.
  • Parenthetically Speaking
  • Pause for a Comma
  • The Pilcrows The pilcrow is the paragraph mark used by writers and editors.
  • Punctual Punctuators
  • Punctuation Saves Lives
  • Semicolons Join Us A semicolon most often links two closely related independent clauses.
  • Simple Sentences, Complex Team
  • Starts With a Capital
  • Tilde the Very End The tilde is a mark set over a letter in some languages; alone it usually means approximately.
  • Well-Hyphenated The hyphen joins words and separates the syllables of a word.

Vocabulary teams 31

  • A Team, by Definition
  • The Affixers An affix is a piece added to a word stem, such as un- or -ing.
  • Back of the Book Glossary A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms with definitions, often at the end of a book.
  • Cognate Connections Cognates are words that descend from the same ancestor word.
  • Ebullient Bunch Ebullient means enthusiastic and high-spirited.
  • Gregarious Group Gregarious describes someone who enjoys company and crowds.
  • The Indefatigables Indefatigable means persistent and untiring.
  • Laconic Legends Laconic means using as few words as possible.
  • Level Kayak Racecar Each word is a palindrome: it reads the same backwards as forwards.
  • Loquacious Bunch Loquacious means talkative.
  • Magnanimous Winners Magnanimous means noble and generous in spirit.
  • Meaning From Context
  • Multiple Meaning Words Polysemy is the name for one word having several related meanings.
  • Neologism Makers A neologism is a newly coined word that is gaining acceptance.
  • Never Verbose Verbose means using more words than needed.
  • The Oxymorons An oxymoron joins words of opposite meaning, as bittersweet does.
  • Perspicacious Pupils Perspicacious means having keen insight.
  • Polysyllabic Pals Polysyllabic means having many syllables.
  • Portmanteau Crew A portmanteau blends parts of two words into one, as smog does with smoke and fog.
  • Prefix Suffix Sandwich
  • Root Word Gardeners A root word is the core of a word, to which a prefix or a suffix can attach.
  • Sagacious Squad Sagacious means having keen judgment.
  • Shades of Meaning
  • Succinct Squad Succinct means brief and to the point.
  • Synonyms and Antonyms Synonyms share a meaning; antonyms are opposites.
  • Ten Dollar Words A ten-dollar word is a long, uncommon word used where a short one would do.
  • Thesaurus Flippers A thesaurus arranges words by meaning, so a writer can find another word for an idea.
  • Vocab Lab
  • Vocabulary Builders
  • Word Hoard Word hoard revives Old English wordhord, a treasury of words: a vocabulary.
  • Wordplay All Day

ELA block and English class 28

  • Book Talk Hosts A book talk is a talk meant to convince someone to read a book.
  • Claim and Evidence Team
  • Discussion Directors
  • ELA-borate Plans
  • ELA-quent Speakers
  • ELA-vated Thinking
  • Fine Language Arts
  • First Block ELA
  • First Next Then Finally
  • Free Write Five
  • Furthermore Club
  • Graphic Organizers A graphic organizer is a teaching tool that shows ideas and how they relate in a diagram.
  • Honors English Honorables
  • However and Therefore
  • In Conclusion Crew
  • In Plain English Plain English is speech or writing meant to be easy for anyone to understand.
  • Inference Makers
  • Language Artists
  • Language Arts and Crafts
  • Language Arts Majors
  • Language Arts Scholars
  • Main Idea Finders
  • Pardon Our English
  • Passage Pickers
  • Persuade Inform Entertain
  • Popcorn Readers
  • State of the Language Arts
  • Writer's Notebook Keepers

How it works

These language arts team names run from The FANBOYS to Pardon Our English. 60 of the 117 print a line under the name: what a gerund is, what stet tells a proofreader, what loquacious means.

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Vocabulary group names

Vocabulary teams has 31 names. Eleven are a word to learn with its meaning printed: Loquacious Bunch is talkative, Laconic Legends use as few words as possible, The Indefatigables are untiring. Word Hoard revives Old English wordhord, a treasury of words, and Level Kayak Racecar is three palindromes.

Group names for an ELA block

First Block ELA, ELA-vated Thinking, ELA-borate Plans and ELA-quent Speakers carry the letters. Popcorn Readers, Book Talk Hosts, Discussion Directors and First Next Then Finally come from the block itself. Names built on books and literary terms are on literature team names.

Questions and answers

What are good language arts team names?

Language Artists, Language Arts and Crafts, Fine Language Arts and State of the Language Arts carry the subject. From the grammar set: The FANBOYS, Winning Is a Gerund, A Tense Situation and With Our Complements.

What are funny group names for English class?

Pardon Our English, Geese Not Gooses, More Better Grammar, Comma Again, Caret Tops and Tilde the Very End. A caret is the proofreading mark that shows where to insert something.

What are team names for English class?

In Plain English and Honors English Honorables name the class. Its Has No Apostrophe, Semicolons Join Us and One Space After the Period each carry a rule of the class, printed under the name.

What are group names in English class for reading and writing?

Popcorn Readers, Main Idea Finders, Inference Makers, Writer's Notebook Keepers and Free Write Five. Book clubs have reading group names, and a spelling team has spelling bee team names.

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