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TES Global

Blendspace: Compound Sentences & Fanboys

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to an image, videos, and texts about compound sentences and the coordinating conjunctions used to form them.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Elements of Sentence Construction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Learners will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry explains and provides examples of comma splices and fused sentences and how to fix them.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Learners will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 7 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Madison: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This excellent site explains numerous guidelines, complete with examples, for determining subject-verb agreement.

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