[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on writing effective introductions and conclusions and tying them together. It also discusses varying sentence structures. Practice exercises are...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the introduction which establishes the context for the information that will form the body of the essay, connecting the conclusion to the introduction,...

Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.

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.

Designed to help students practice the elements of sentence design, these games provide different levels of difficulty for users of all ages. The sentence variety games include: Is This a Compound Sentence, Logging Sentences, Make a...

Parallel structure is a stylistic choice to make verbs in a sentence maintain a pattern.

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.

This tutorial provides information about the sentence fragment. Several examples are provided to support the explanations. A PowerPoint is available on the site for additional tutorial information regarding sentence fragments and other...

What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.

A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing sentence structures. This blendspace includes three video lessons, posters, and interactive practice activities.

This resource focuses on text structure by defining the types of organizational patterns and providing examples of each. These are followed by a list of links to practice activities on text structure and main idea, as well as some videos.

Slideshow introduces the concept of informational text or text structure.

This GrammarCheck infographic provides tips for fixing common writing mistakes. Information on errors related to homophones, apostrophes, commas, participles, and sentence structure are included.

This site includes over 440 daily grammar lessons that are grouped into sections that cover the eight parts of speech, sentence structure, and mechanics. Quizzes are also included and are sorted according to the grammatical topic being...

What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.

After textbook and online instruction in parallel construction, students examine "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" and the Declaration of Independence for parallelism before writing their own paragraphs.

This article discusses what grammar first graders need to know including how to count out syllables by clapping, what nouns and verbs are and the differences between them, and basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object).

A printable guide with explanations and examples of sentences with and without parallel structure. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] L.9-10.1a Parallelism

This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...

This article focuses on the grammar of 4th grade including the beginning of more adult conversation, a grammar review from previous grades, more irregular verbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and improved sentence structure.

This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...

Students will explore characters created by authors and identify personality traits, and then apply these ideas to their own characters using language skills identified to convey these traits. Students will write a character sketch,...

At the beginning of the school year, students respond to a teacher-generated questionnaire in personal letter format. As a diagnostic tool, letter writing can reveal strengths and weaknesses in composition skills, organization, sentence...

A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.