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K12 Reader

Combining Sentences Using Appositives II

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Provide young grammarians' additional practice using appositives to combine short sentences with this short worksheet that includes a definition and models.
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K12 Reader

Combining Sentences Using Appositives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
If learners only use simple sentence structure, their essays can fall flat. Model how to combine short, choppy sentences with appositives to add interest and flow to individuals' writing.
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Curated OER

Complex Sentences: Sentence Combining

For Students 5th - 6th
Set up your learners to become master sentence combiners with this sentence combining worksheet! There are 3 columns on this resource. Writers merge simple sentences from the first column and second column using the clue provided in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Combining Sentences: The Dragonslayers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this combining sentences worksheet, students combine 2 sentences into 1, answer multiple choice sentences, and write a paragraph. Students complete 13 problems and write 1 paragraph.
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Curated OER

Sentence Combining

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students combine simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.  In this combining sentences lesson, students are given short, choppy sentences and combine them into more mature sentences.  Students must use...
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Curated OER

Friendly Letter Writing and Sentence Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore communication through writing by analyzing individual sentences with young writers. They practice writing compound sentences and identifying sentence fragments. The next step has them learn the five parts of a friendly letter....
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Curated OER

Review of Compound and Complex Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th
An excellent language arts worksheet. Learners read seven sentences and determine if each is simple, compound, or complex. In order to practice sentence combining, young writers join 10 sets of sentences to form compound sentences, and...
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Writing
Curated OER

Joining Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th
Sentence combining meets multiple objectives for writers, and they are all available in this informational text exercise. Learners read a mixed-up excerpt about the history of chess, putting 15 sentences into logical order. Have a...
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Curated OER

Combine Sentences

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this combining sentences worksheet, students create sentences using key words. In this short answer worksheet, students write seven sentences.
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Millard South Patriots

Trait Practice: Sentence Fluency

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Do your young writers need a little help varying their sentence structure? Have them work on common errors, sentence fluency, and writing patterns with a series of language arts activities. The resource includes reading passages as well...
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EngageNY

Editing Sentences and Creating Visual and Multimedia Displays for a Presentation

For Teachers 5th Standards
Let'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.
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Curated OER

Using Conjunctions 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students learn that conjunctions can tie two parts of a sentence together. Students read the first half of a sentence and add a second phrase, choosing a conjunction from the list: and, or, but, because...
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Curated OER

Correlative Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learners choose the better of two options to complete 10 sentences; they must choose the singular or plural form of the verb to match the compound subject, whether the nouns are connected by and or by neither/nor. They identify the words...
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Curated OER

Combining with Participial Phrases

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Combine participial phrases and creative writing with this lesson, which is equally helpful for writing skills and conventions. After a mini-lesson on participial phrases and reading the picture book Dancing in the Wings, pupils use a...
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Teacher Created Resources

Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Support scholars' ability to write complex sentences with a two-page worksheet designed to inform and reinforce. Here, learners obtain a brief overview of what a complex sentence is and how one is made; then apply their new-found...
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Curated OER

How to Combine Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Learners practice combining sentences. In this writing lesson, students view essays and discuss how it can be revised, using sentence combining. Learners practice this skill in their own essays.
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Practice Using Lively Language

Practice Using Lively Language

For Students 3rd - 6th
Combine 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...
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Curated OER

Build Complex Sentences

For Students 2nd - 5th
Learners practice building complex sentences in this sentence combining-like exercise. Two simple sentences are given; your writers must make one reasonable complex sentence out of each pair using the conjunction provided. Ten examples...
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Curated OER

Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech procedure. They spell...
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Curated OER

Non-Defining Relative Pronouns Exercise

For Students 4th - 6th
Writing flows better with complex and compound sentences. Teach your learners how to combine sentences using relative clauses. This activity has 10 questions, but there are no examples provided. Consider providing at least a few examples...
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Curated OER

Correcting Unfinished Sentences Containing Subjects And Verbs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar and writing learning exercise, students finish each of 8 unfinished sentences by joining it to the sentence that comes after it. They look for the words, "who, which, and that" to determine where the sentences should be...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eliminate Fragments and Run-ons

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Fix fragments and run-ons. Kids practice editing a piece of their own writing, read, and take notes of common examples. They practice connecting independent clauses and then use the information to edit previously written pieces. Note:...
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Curated OER

Sentence Structure: Avoiding Choppy, Run-on, and Stringy Sentences

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Use this as a reference sheet for peer- or self-editing, or as a guide when teaching sentence structure. Defines and gives examples of choppy, run-on, and stringy sentences, and provides corrected versions of each. Check revised examples...
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Curated OER

Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners understand that a complex sentence combines two ideas. For this complex sentence lesson, students use subordinate conjunctions to combine simple sentences. Learners complete a worksheet.