Curated OER
Flags
Students study the flag they describe in their writing. This is done by either having the entire class view the one flag they are describing, or by handing out pictures of various flags to each individual student.
Curated OER
Storytelling and Drawing
Young scholars orally retell the Yosemite Miwok legends and design accompanying artistic depictions. They discover the various storytelling elements, such as plot and theme.
Curated OER
Summing up Winter!
Young scholars review the concept of silent reading. Through modeling and guided practice, they follow four given steps in summarizing the beginning of a written passage. Then they continue to read the passage independently and follow...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Combining Sentences With Appositives
An exercise consisting of ten pairs of sentences. Students are asked to combine the two sentences using an appositive and type the new sentence into the box. When finished, students can check the answers to see how they did.
Towson University
Towson University:online Writing Support: Self Teaching Unit: Sentence Combining
This lesson focuses on sentence combining including showing sentence errors and their corrections, providing six methods of combining sentences with examples of each and offering a link to a final quiz.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Coordinating Conjunctions
An exercise with ten compound sentences. Students are asked to type the commas where they belongs in compound sentences with a coordinating conjunctions. Then students can check their answers to see how they did.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?
This lesson will help learners recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
English Zone
English Zone: Formal Adjective Clauses Exercise 30
A ten-question exercise with each question consisting of a pair of clauses. Students are asked to combine the two clauses into one complete sentence by using the second clause to create an adjective clause. Students can check their...
English Zone
English zone.com: Noun Clauses: Embedded Questions
An interactive exercise with four examples followed by ten practice sentences. Students combine two sentences by starting each with a noun clause. When finished, students can check their work to see how many answers are correct.
English Zone
English zone.com: Noun Clauses: Using Infinitives
An interactive exercise with four examples followed by ten sentences. Students complete each question by combining two sentences while using an infinitive phrase. When finished, students can check to see how many answers are correct.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Hodge Podge Lodge: Dge
This printable -dge worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will fill in words to complete sentences with the soft /g/ words [-dge letter combination] and then color associated...
Other
Teachers Choice: Simplifying Expressions
Learn about simplifying algebraic expressions at this complete "how to" website. Detailed descriptions with examples and a downloadable file that let's you practice your skills.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Participial Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF can be used as an overhead or handout. It shows how sentences can be strengthened when two or more sentences are combined with the use of participial phrases.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Academic Language: Everyone's "Second" Language
Being able to speak English fluently does not guarantee that a student will be able to use language effectively in academic settings. Fluency must be combined with higher order thinking skills to create an "academic language," which...