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More and Less Handfuls

For Teachers K Standards
Working as a pair, two kindergartners will sit at a table and will pick two handfuls of counters. They will combine their individual handfuls into one, and count their own selection. They will then draw and record their count on a record...
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American English

Create Your Own Sporting Event

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Combine vocabulary development and a study of verb tenses with a general introduction to sports. Class members get acquainted with the language associated with sports, and then complete a project to design and describe their own...
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Writing and Reading Center #2: Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 12th
Still plagued by short, choppy sentences in the writings of your class members? Here's another practice set that asks learners to combine a series of short sentences into a single, more interesting one. Could be used as an in-class drill...
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Clauses

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
This comprehensive worksheet covering the use of adjective clauses would provide a good review for middle school learners and older learners in ESL classes. With 27 questions, students have various ways to show they understand how to...
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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 learning exercise has 10 questions, but there are no examples provided. Consider providing at least a few...
Handout
North Shower Community College

Preparing for Tests, Taking Tests, Reducing Test Anxiety

For Students 3rd - 12th
As testing season is upon us, give class members a way to prepare their minds and bodies for the big day. A resource promotes deep breathing exercises and comfortability to reduce anxiety. Along with multiple choice, short...
Worksheet
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Practice with Using Different Tenses

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate choice of words to complete ten sentences and then combine four sets if sentences so that the second sentence becomes a when clause.
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Correcting Unfinished Sentences Containing Subjects And Verbs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar and writing worksheet, 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 joined...
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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...
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Translate Word Phrases and Sentences into Equations

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Use this video to show your learners an example of how to translate word phrases into an equation to solve a real-world problem. The presenter begins with a review of how to use cross products to solve a proportion, including how to do...
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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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Writing Exercise: The Han and Roman Empires

For Students 6th - 8th
Combine subjects with a cross-curricular writing exercise. Although limited as an engaging or interactive activity, this Han and Roman Empires worksheet has learners responding to 3 clear and simple prompts, each of which can easily lead...
Interactive
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Quantifiers Exercises- So or Such

For Students 4th - 6th
For this so or such worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with so or such, combine sentences with so...that or such....that, rewrite sentences, and more. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Conjunctions- Homework

For Students 4th - 5th
In this combining sentences activity, students use paired conjunctions to combine two sentences. There are 10 questions and no examples on the page.
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Conjunctions – Homework

For Students 6th - 8th
In this combining sentences worksheet, students examine 10 pairs of sentences and rewrite each pair as 1 single sentence using paired conjunctions.
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Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand that a complex sentence combines two ideas. In this complex sentence instructional activity, students use subordinate conjunctions to combine simple sentences. Students complete a worksheet.
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Sentence Stucture

For Teachers 4th
In this analyzing sentences worksheet, 4th graders identify purpose, combining, types, and grammar. Students answer 10 questions.
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Making compound sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this combining sentences activity, students combine 2 sentences into 1 sentence. Students combine 12 sentences into 6 sentences.
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Adjective Clause

For Students 4th - 5th
For this combining sentences worksheet, learners practice their use of adjective clauses and relative pronouns. Students are given ten sentences to combine using the relative pronoun provided and adding an adjective clause.
Writing
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Understanding Paragraph Basics

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...
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K12 Reader

Change the Predicate Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Review parts of speech and revise writing for clarity with one instructional activity! Elementary grammarians change ten predicate adjectives to attributive adjectives, combining two choppy sentences into one smooth thought.
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Practice with Using Different Tenses

For Students 4th - 6th
For this grammar worksheet, students choose and circle the letter of the correct tense choice that makes ten sentences grammatically correct. Students then combine four sets of sentences so that the second sentence becomes a when clause.
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Independent and Dependent Clauses

For Students 5th - 8th
In this independent and dependent clause worksheet, students are given a sentence that is written incorrectly and must correct.
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Printing and Publishing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore African literature and artwork in a multicultural literacy and art lesson plan. Begin with a read aloud of Tiger and the Big Wind: A Tale from Africa, and afterward, have kids retell the main events in the story. They...