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\nTeach a Mini-Lesson Sentence Variety\n

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\nHelp your developing writers spice up their writing by studying simple, compound, and complex sentences.\n
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\nHow to Use Sentence Variety to Strengthen Your Writing\n

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\nConvey the importance of sentence variety and introduce your class to different sentence patterns. Have class members take notes or take some breaks in the presentation to practice writing the variety of patterns introduced. \n
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\nSentence Combining/Sentence Variety\n

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\nChallenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...\n
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\nTest Review Sheet: Irony, Comma Rules, and Sentence Variety, \n

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\nCovering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...\n
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\nSentence Variety and Modifier Placement\n

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\nIn this sentence variety worksheet, learners learn that modifier placement can make sentences more interesting. Students read 10 sentences and add an initial, mid-sentence or terminal modifier as directed. This is an on-line interactive...\n
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\nConventions Chart\n

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\nHelp your young writers pay close attention to their conventions and move toward revision with a straightforward chart. Learners can analyze 11 sentences on this page by noting down the first letter in each, the first of words in each,...\n
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\nFriendly Letter Mini-Lesson\n

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\nThis mini-lesson about informal letter writing is packed with a lot of information about writing a friendly letter. Class members begin by working in pairs to answer questions after reviewing letter models. Then, take part in a grand...\n
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\nA News Story of Your Own: Sentence and Lexical Variety\n

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\nGiven the two-sentence skeleton of a news story about a car theft/joy ride, budding writers create their own version of the story varying diction and sentence structure to heighten interest and complexity in their writing. Resource...\n
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\nWriting and Presenting a Fable Using Research\n

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\nElementary and middle schoolers research animal facts and use them in a fable. First, they pair-share to find animal traits to use in writing a fable. They then complete a prewriting worksheet. After going through the writing process,...\n
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\nClauses and Compound Sentences \n

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\nSentence variety is extremely important when it comes to learning the written word. Add variety to your learners' writing by focusing on clauses and compound sentences. The information provided is followed by a practice opportunity to...\n
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\nBuilding Writing Skills: Receiving Feedback and Varying Sentence Structures\n

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\nEveryone is good at something. Scholars receive their mid-unit assessments with feedback. They look over their papers and write their strengths as a writer and goals on index cards. The class then has a mini lesson in using sentence...\n
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\nSentence Construction: What is a Sentence? \n

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\nWhat must a sentence contain in order to be complete? What different types of sentences exist? Look at declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences with this 17-slide presentation. Several example sentences are shown, and the...\n
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\nGrade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 28\n

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\nAs writers continue to revise their argument essays, the focus shifts to editing grammatical conventions, parallel structure, and varying syntax to add interest. After examining model sentences that demonstrate sentence variety, writers...\n
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\nRevising Writing\n

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\nJunior high writers investigate other student’s sample writing and critique on how it could be improved. Skill emphasis is place on elaboration, voice, and sentence variety. The student writing is provided, but the checklist for revision...\n
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\nLanguage Arts: Sentence Variety and Fluency\n

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\nStudents are able to identify, create, and evaluate three kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. They are able identify the purpose of various sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, and...\n
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\nSentences\n

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\nWork on sentence variety with this grammar worksheet. Middle schoolers decide if what they are reading are sentences, phrases, complete sentences, simple sentences, compound sentences, or complex sentences. They then complete eight...\n
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\nRecognizing Types of Sentences\n

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\nUse this grammar worksheet to help your young writers with sentence variety. Middle schoolers determine if the sentences are simple, compound or complex sentences. There are eleven questions on this page.\n
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\nPeer Edit Checklist\n

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\nN2SIOPSSWTSW anyone? (No 2 Sentences In One Paragraph Should Start with the Same Word.) In addition to checking for sentence variety, editors use colored highlighters to identify different aspects of a peer’s paper. \n
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\nNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself\n

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\n The narrative works of Frederick Douglass engage learners in the topic of slavery. They will experience American history in a new way, a Douglass expresses his thoughts in his own words. Pupils then interpret this literary...\n
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\nEditing Sentences and Creating Visual and Multimedia Displays for a Presentation\n

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\nLet's get visual. Pupils plan visual displays to accompany their upcoming opinion speech presentations. Additionally, they practice editing sentences for clarity before revising their speech drafts.\n
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\nParaphrase with Synonyms\n

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\nWhat's another word for paraphrasing? Ask your pupils to put their minds to work in order to replace underlined words in a series of sentences with appropriate synonyms.\n
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\nPractice Using Lively Language\n

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\nCombine a study of biography writing with some tips for spicing up writing. After reading two passages, one much more descriptive than the other, pupils examine what makes one more interesting. They then brainstorm some ideas for writing...\n
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\nWriting\n

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\nFourth graders complete a writing project and tutorial using word processing on a computer. They focus on voice, word choice, details, sentence variety, staying on topic, supporting details and connecting sentences. They edit, save and...\n
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\nThe Malnourished Paragraph\n

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\nStudents revise writing to improve style, word choice, sentence variety and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how questions of purpose, audience and genre have been addressed. They recognize the importance of details in writing.\n
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