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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on revising the thesis and topic sentences using two videos and two slideshows. The first video discusses a 3-step revising process for making sure the thesis fits the paper; the second video focuses on what...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to practice recognizing sentences that need to be revised to add variety and revising sentences by using additions and sentence combining.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, you are going to practice evaluating sentences, adding to sentences, and combining sentences. You are also going to do sentence imitation to boost your sentence savvy.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will use labeling to decide what changes are necessary to guarantee sentence variety in your writing. Practice exercises are provided.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Run Ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to use the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview) to edit and revise a topic sentence.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: English Ii Writing: Revision Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a unit including six different lessons on on English II Writing: Revision Strategies including the following: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language, Strengthen Sentence Variety, Parallelism, Evaluating and Revising a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of notes and lessons focused on writing thesis statements and topic sentences. The lesson begins with a four-page downloadable PDF containing information about the function and form of a thesis statement as well as how to...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising sentence variety and for sentence combining in an essay.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th Standards
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Revising and Editing the Draft

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips for revising and editing a rough draft. Links to additional information on Global Revisions, Editing Sentences, and Proofreading is provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Choppy Sentences: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses how to recognize and correct sentences that are choppy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Choppy Sentences."
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Parallelism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Writer's Choice: Revising Sentence Fragments

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An exercise providing five sentence fragments that students are asked to revise and rewrite by adding a subject or a predicate. Students can check their answers when finished, and possible answer choices are provided.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Adding Sparks to Sentence Beginnings

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews several ways to begin a sentence and provides examples, review, and an assessment.