Students practice combining sentences. For this writing lesson, students view essays and discuss how it can be revised, using sentence combining. Students practice this skill in their own essays.

Fourth graders explore the two main parts of sentences, subject and predicate. They, in groups, mix up their sentence strips and then place them face down and have a contest to see which group can rebuild the sentences correctly in the...

In this compound machine worksheet, students review what simple machines are put together to make compound machines. This worksheet has 5 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions.

In this grammar activity, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions about making sentences correct by filling in the blanks, and identifying subjects and predicates. Students complete 25 questions.

In this sentence worksheet, students read a set of 7 sentences, determining whether they are phrases, simple, compound or complex sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" button for feedback.

Young scholars read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.

Students examine the concepts of healthy and unhealthy drugs. They read and discuss excerpts from the book "The Human Body," develop a list of healthy and unhealthy drugs, and write sentences relating to safety about medicines and other...

In this sentence writing worksheet, students learn about using conjunctions in sentences. They then use what they learned to answer the 6 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page.

Subject, object personal. Possessive, reflexive, indefinite. Everything you want to know about pronouns and their antecedents is contained in a colorful 32-slide presentation.

Fourth graders use pantomine and charades to explore verbs and adverbs. They, in groups, play a variation of charades to act out sentences with adverbs showing WHEN and WHERE.

Students need to know how to correctly use words in their writing and speaking. By reviewing parts of speech with hands-on activities, students retain and enjoy studying sentence structure.

Students identify and correct fragments in writings. Students perform activities to write incorrect and correct fragments. They create puzzle pieces from fragments. Students participate in fragment activities.

Fourth graders focus on fluency by reading the book Charlotte's Web. In this reading strategies lesson, 4th graders partner read, do guided reading, and independent reading to increase fluency. Students use Venn Diagrams, discuss...

Students examine the role of conjunctions in the English language. They discuss how conjunctions are used, observe a teacher demonstration, and complete various worksheets related to conjunctions.

Students create questions for a grammar based version of a Jeopardy quiz game. The teacher assesses student questions and decides which questions should be used in the game. Individuals compete using proper grammar, phonics, and...

Students study the parts of speech and then review them. They identify each part of speech and place them on a tree map. Then they visit a website to create a "Wacky Web Tale" using information from the tree map. They print their tales...

Students practice the parts of speech using index cards to label words in a sentence.

Fourth graders listen as the teacher reads a picture book that emphasized word choice. They discuss words and how word choice impacts a piece of writing. Students view various passages on the overhead, and highlight adjectives and verbs...

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.

In these grammar worksheets, students will circle nouns and verbs, fill in blanks with suitable verbs, add -er and -or to verbs to create nouns, write silly sentences using nouns that end in -ar, add the correct suffix to change verbs...

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.

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator:...

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