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Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
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Sentence Fragments
As middle and high schoolers experiment with their writing styles, it's easy to slip in a few accidental sentence fragments. After reading a full-page of information regarding how to identify and avoid sentence fragments, learners...
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Improving Sentences 1
Explore editing and revising writing with this presentation. Learners discuss ways to improve a sentence. They discuss how to revise a sentence by adding adjectives, descriptive verbs, and more. While the presentation itself isn't...
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Compound and Complex Sentences
Compound and complex sentences are the focus of this language arts instructional activity. Learners write a clause or phrase from each of the four sentences, then rewrite each sentence adding another clause to make a compound or complex...
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Compound/Complex Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite a paragraph by finishing several unfinished sentences by joining them together with proper punctuation.
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Creating Simple and Compound Sentences
In this creating simple and compound sentences online instructional activity, student read ten sentences, indicating simple, compound or run-on; each run-on sentence must be re-written as one compound or two simple sentences.
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Fragments and Run-on Sentences
In this fragments and run-on sentences worksheet, 6th graders rewrite 8 sentences so they are grammatically correct as compound sentences.
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Writing Sentences Lesson Plan
Students explore first person and third person points of view. In this perspective lesson, students identify first person and third person points of view in literature they have read. Students rewrite stories from different perspectives.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 11
In this sentence writing activity, students correct the errors in the sentences. They rewrite them on the lines provided. There are 6 sentences to correct.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 10
In this grammar worksheet, students correct the errors in the sentences. They rewrite the corrected sentences on the lines provided. There are 6 sentences to correct.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 12
In this grammar worksheet, students correct the errors in the sentences. They rewrite the corrected sentences on the lines provided. There are 6 sentences to correct.
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Combining Ideas into an Effective Sentence
Here is a lesson 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 light method of...
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Past Tense Exercise
In this online interactive verbs activity, students rewrite 25 sentences online changing their present tense verbs to past tense verbs. Students type each sentence in the white boxes provided.
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Slanted Sentences
Students examine biased words in news articles, suggest synonyms, then rewrite the sentences to demonstrate how word choice can alter meaning.
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Fragments--Exercise 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite each fragment by adding or combining words or punctuation where needed. Students leave each complete sentence alone and leave the lines below each one blank.
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Must Not vs. Don't Have to
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite fifteen sentences involving activities that some must do, must not do and ones we don't have to do.
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Advanced Sentence Correction 1
Applying grammar rules to everyday language is an important skill for students to master. Using this activity, learners can practice forming grammatically-correct sentences.
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Eliminating Wordiness
Why use 50 words when 15 gets the same point across? Use an online interactive webpage to fine tune the writing skills of your middle schoolers. As they read 10 sentences, they eliminate as many words as possible while still retaining...
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Fragments Wanted (Not)
Students rewrite newspaper employment ads using complete sentences.
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Fragments
In this grammar instructional activity, learners rewrite and finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with appropriate punctuation.
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Fragments
In this grammar activity, students rewrite twenty-four fragments into complete sentences by either adding a verb or a subject to each one.
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English Exercises: Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, 6th graders read the explanation and examples, then rewrite 10 sentences and identify which of the 4 cases it represents, with immediate online feedback.
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The Glorious Whitewasher
Young readers can be exposed to the literary works of Mark Twain as they interact with challenging text and gain experience by reading the complex passages of chapter two "The Glorious Whitewasher" from his famous book, The Adventures of...