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Get Rid of "And"
Run-on sentences using and are all too common in our youngsters' writing. Have them read these different paragraphs to determine where they can remove some of the ands. Consider doing this activity as a whole class on the overhead or...
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Grade K-2 Conjunctions
Young writers work with the conjunctions "and," "but," and "or." They choose the proper conjunction to complete five sentences by circling the one that fits the sentence best.
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Basic Writing Skills
Learners listen to story A Mason-Dixon Memory, by Clifton Davis, and complete worksheets about the story. The worksheets are embedded in the plan. This activity provides good reading comprehension practice for young readers.
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Writing Skills: Statistical Report
A simple text analysis lesson, language learners transfer, order, and group information so that it is presentable. No apparent link to the five required worksheets.
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Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses
Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...
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Coordination and Subordination
Young scholars sharpen grammar skills with this activity. Composed of ten multiple-choice questions, this resource asks learners to practice coordination and subordination by choosing the correct conjunctions and clearest sentences. This...
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Combining and Rewriting Sentences
Learners practice combining sentences using the conjunction handout provided. They search magazines and newspapers to identify combined sentences that use conjunctions. Finally, these are rewritten again as two separate sentences.
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I'm Published! A Parts of Speech Book
Reinforce the importance of the writing process with this publication instructional activity. Elementary and middle schoolers compose a parts of speech book which includes one page each for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,...
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Complex Sentences
Turning simple sentences into complex sentences is an important skill for young writers to learn. This presentation gives learners many good tips on how to make a simple sentence more complex by using conjunctions and other connective...
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Subject Verb Agreement Worksheet 1
Practice correlative conjunctions with this subject/verb agreement activity. Fifteen sentences give middle schoolers the opportunity to correct any incorrect agreement within "either/or" and "neither nor" statements. The format would...
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Subordinate Conjunctions and Complex Sentences for SMART Board
A SMART board is a great way to get kids engaged and excited about grammar. Using this SMART board lesson and worksheet, pupils study the rules of conjunctions, clauses, and complex sentences. After they have worked on the exercises, a...
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Coordinating Conjunctions
As a review of coordinating conjunctions, this short activity could be useful. Learners are required to use a coordinating conjunction to combine two sentences in this 8 question worksheet.
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Connectors of Addition and Contrast
For this conjunction interactive worksheet, students read pairs of sentences and decide which ones express similar ideas and which show contrasting ideas. They use the correct connectors from the drop down menus in 10 sentences. They...
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Run-ons, Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
In this sentence writing learning exercise, learners are given pairs of sentences with directions to form one new sentence using commas, semicolons and/or conjunctions. Students can self check or trade and grade using the answer key...
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Conjunctions: Sentence maze
In this conjunctions practice worksheet, students connect the words in each sentence to find their way through the maze.
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Conjunctions Sentence Maze 2
In this conjunctions practice worksheet, students connect the words in each sentence to find their way through the maze.
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Conjunctions Sentence Search 2
In this conjunctions sentence search worksheet, students connect the words using horizontal and vertical lines to form sentences.
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Conjunctions Sentence Bullseye
In this conjunction practice worksheet, students draw two lines from each of 8 sentence beginnings through two conjunctions and two ending to form 8 grammatically correct sentences.
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Conjunctions Sentence Bullseye 2
In this conjunction practice worksheet, students draw two lines from each of 8 sentence beginnings through two conjunctions and two ending to form 8 grammatically correct sentences.
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Conjunctions Sentence Drop
In this conjunction practice worksheet, students connect the words in each of 3 boxes to form 3 complete sentences.
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Conjunctions- "and" or "but"
In this conjunctions worksheet, students read 20 short sentences. Students join each pair of sentences that go together using a conjunction "and" or "but". Note: The directions tell students to write the new sentences in "your book."
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Commas With Conjunctions Worksheet
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a variety of activities including identifying whether sentences are correct or have a comma splice, correct comma splices in sentences and insert a comma to combine two sentences or more for...
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Run-on Sentences
In this grammar instructional activity, students rewrite a paragraph, finishing each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with a conjunction.
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Conjunctions
In this grammar worksheet, students complete eighteen sentences by adding on words after the conjunction on the lines provided.