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K12 Reader

Simple, Compound, or Complex?

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
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...
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Curated OER

What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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Curated OER

Conjunctions

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Complete exercises for conjunctions in this conjunctions lesson. Middle schoolers work in pairs to combine sample sentences. They analyze the conjunctions and choose one to help them rewrite the sentences. Additionally, they may complete...
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Curated OER

ADd IT-- ADjectives and ADverbs

For Teachers 6th
Descriptive writing is a must for students to understand. Using adverbs and adjectives, they turn simple sentences into works of art. Each simple sentence gets a descriptive make-over. This lesson suggests using Laptops and SMART board...
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Curated OER

Paragraph Unity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Your class can construct a well-written paragraph. They utilize a sequential method which assists them in formulating a concise expository piece. The paragraph must contain a topic sentence, five supporting sentences, and a conclusion.
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Curated OER

Basic Paragraph

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students with special needs examine how to write an organized, basic, five-sentence paragraph. Students write a paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence. They first practice by viewing and...
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Curated OER

Subordinating Conjunctions and Subordinate Clauses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...
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Handout
San José State University

Writing Concisely: Deleting or Replacing Unnecessary Information

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Are you actually feeling really tired of reading wordy, redundant, long, lengthy sentences practically all the time over and over again? Introduce writers to this handout and exercise to teach to tighten up their prose! Provides two ways...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary: Identify and Define Multiple Meaning Words in Context

For Teachers 1st
Context can make all the difference. Early readers discover the importance and usefulness of context by examining the word bark in a variety of sentences. Each sentence provides learners with a context they can use to determine the...
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Curated OER

Develop a Paragraph

For Students 6th - 8th
Need a recipe for a paragraph? Young writers cook up the opening paragraph for a speech on food preparation. They prepare by reading the directions and cutting out the provided sentence strips. Then, they mix up the strips and paste the...
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Curated OER

Grammar Practice: Don't Get Frazzled over Fragments!

For Students 6th - 8th
Following a brief definition of the required components of a complete sentence, and models of incomplete or sentence fragments, learners are asked to revise a series of sentence fragments into complete sentences. Suggested rewrites are...
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Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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Handout
San José State University

Old Information Before New Information

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Help your writers streamline their sentence structure with this handout. This resource provides information about sentence organization including definitions and models of the active voice and the passive voice. In addition to reading...
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Curated OER

CTBS Usage Practice #3

For Students 6th - 7th
For this grammar worksheet, learners identify: topic sentences, simple predicate, simple subjects, and combined multiple sentences. They answer fifteen multiple choice questions.
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Curated OER

English Skills: Vocabulary and Spelling Practice

For Students 6th - 11th
Learners complete various activities using their spelling words, which are not provided on the worksheet. Activities include using spelling words alliteratively, finding synonyms, using words in sentences with specified parts of speech,...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary 8

For Teachers 8th - 12th
  Students define vocabulary words from the, The Pearl.  In this vocabulary lesson plan, students discuss their vocabulary words and create sentences for them.  Students also complete a worksheet with the most important vocabulary words...
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Curated OER

Worksheet 1 There is/There are

For Students 3rd - 5th
English language learners will benefit from this focus on there is and there are. As they focus on the two forms, they create sentences using each, and they identify which group of words correctly completes the sentences provided. Five...
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Curated OER

Writing Example Paragraphs

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write example paragraphs. The term "example paragraph" refers to a paragraph where the supporting sentences provide examples of the subject/idea described in the topic sentence. Students write a basic example paragraph...
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Curated OER

The Subjunctive

For Students 7th - 9th
How are subjunctives incorporated into the writing process? Young grammarians investigate the proper usage of the subjunctive mood, and combine parts of sentences from one column with those from another column to make eight logical...
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Curated OER

You Tell Me!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A good lesson on sentence writing is here for you! Young writers read sentences and determine the word that appropriately completes the sentence. They work in teams to develop their own statements and then exchange with another team.
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Curated OER

Basic Paragraph

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore basic paragraphs. Young writers compose a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. This activity is intended for use with a SMART Board, a software technology web link is induced. 
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Handout
San José State University

Avoiding Nominalization

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Who? What? Why? - Using Interrogative Pronouns

For Students 7th - 10th
Interrogative pronouns are an important part of learning the interrogative sentence form. Middle schoolers learn about using interrogative pronouns in sentence writing, and use what they read to answer the nineteen questions on the...
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Curated OER

Read it Like You Mean It!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
First through third graders observe and demonstrate a variety of reading expression strategies. First start by reviewing some common digraphs and the sounds they make. Then listen to the teacher read different sentences with and without...

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