K12 Reader
Simple, Compound, or Complex?
Check your class's understanding of compound, simple, and complex sentences with a quick and straightforward exercise. Pupils read ten sentences and choose whether each one is a simple, complex, or compound sentence by checking one of...
Ms. McLaughlin's Homework Page
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Find out just how much your pupils know about simple sentences, subjects and predicates, sentence fragments, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, compound sentences, complex sentences, and more! This review page includes...
Nosapo
What Is in a Sentence, Paragraph, and Story?
Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...
Curated OER
Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers...
Curated OER
Teacher Kit Unit 1
Nine lessons makeup a unit designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary through practice pages based on readings of African folktales. Each lesson consists of a mini lesson, a vocabulary review, and a worksheet. Topics include...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Finding Subjects and Predicates
Diagramming sentences has never been easier. Four worksheets feature exercises on simple subject and predicates, complete subjects and predicates, as well as compound verbs. Kids indicate the parts of the sentences with circles and...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
CK-12 Foundation
And and Or Statements: Number Lines
Compound statements are actually quite simple. A virtual interactive provides a means to graph solution sets to compound statements involving and and or. Users then answer a few challenge questions on these solution sets.
Mr. Ambrose
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rearranging Simple and Compound Sentences
Identify and arrange simple and compound sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple and Compound Sentences
Identify which sentences are simple and which are compound.
Quia
Quia: Simple and Compound Sentences
Do you know the difference between simple and compound sentences? Find out what you know about by taking this practice quiz.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
In this lesson, students will explore compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. They will also combine simple sentences into compound sentence.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Compound Sentences
A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 3
A slideshow introducing simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex sentence types. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences
Complex sentences are simple sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Types and Comma Rules
A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.