Students participate in activities in order to investigate the concept of run-on sentences. They identify a complete sentence and the correct characteristics that it possesses.

Do you know the difference between simple and compound sentences? Find out what you know about by taking this practice quiz.

This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.

In this lesson, students will explore compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. They will also combine simple sentences into compound sentence.

For this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...

While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]

This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.

In this activity, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned activity pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of...

An interactive exercise where students read two sentences and then choose the conjunction that would best join them together. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and score is kept throughout the exercise.

Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...