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Independent and Dependent Clauses

For Students 5th - 8th
In this independent and dependent clause activity, learners are given a sentence that is written incorrectly and must correct.
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Lesson Plan
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Narrative Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create new sentences using adverb clauses identified from a book.  In this narrative writing lesson, students write new sentences from some of the dependent clauses used in a book read to them by the teacher.  Students put the...
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Complex Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Review the parts of a sentence! This short slide show describes simple, complex, and compound sentences. Examples of each are shown, and on the final slide, viewers finish five dependent clauses to create complete sentences. 
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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure

For Students 4th - 8th
In this clauses and sentence structure worksheet, students identify independent and dependent clauses. Students correct sentences that contain errors in structure.
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PPT
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Kinds of Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Help your students mix up their writing with different kinds of sentences with this PowerPoint. Each slide gives a brief definition of the various types including: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and more! There are also examples...
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Lesson Plan
Virginina Department of Education

Combining Ideas into an Effective Sentence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here is a instructional activity that is best utilized as reinforcement in identifying sentences that combine independent/dependent clauses, and phrases that are awkward, fragmented or complete. Learners use the red, yellow, and green...
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Lesson Plan
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Punctuation (The Comma vs. The Semicolon)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore English by participating in a grammar correcting activity. Elementary and middle schoolers distinguish when to use commas from when to use semicolons. Then they correct twelve sentences by placing commas and semicolons in the...
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PPT
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Compound-Complex Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 9th
What is a simple sentence? What about a complex sentence? Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with this nine-slide resource. Example sentences are presented, and a short writing opportunity follows. After showing this...
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The Sentence

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Introduce learners to the wonders and variations found in sentence writing. Several sentence types are defined and exemplified in each slide. Simple, complex, and compound sentences, as well as coordination and subordination are all...
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Handout
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The Heart of Your Paper: 11 Methods for Writing a Topic Sentence (or a Thesis Statement)

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Help your young writers produce high-quality topic and thesis statements that go beyond basic wording and really illustrate complex ideas and critical thinking skills. From however and compound sentence statements to using rhetorical...
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Purdue University

Sentence Fragments Exercise 2

For Students 5th - 9th
For this sentence fragment exercise, learners are given paragraphs to proofread for sentence fragments. Students are given space to make revisions.
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Worksheet
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Parts of Speech - pronouns

For Students 5th - 7th
In this pronouns worksheet, students find the relative pronoun and other pronouns in sentences. Students complete 5 problems on this worksheet.
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Guess What?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students can learn to recognize sentence fragments using these lesson plans.

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