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Fragments, Exercise 2
In this language arts fill-in-the-blank worksheet, students locate sentence fragments in a paragraph. They make corrections to all the fragments by adding or combining material. They write the correct sentences on the blank lines.
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Adjective Clauses in Object Position
In this adjective clause worksheet students are given two sentences they must combine using adjective clauses. Students are able to get a hint and check their answers in this interactive worksheet.
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Structure of a Paragraph Quiz
In this structure of a paragraph activity, middle schoolers read a paragraph entitled "Why I Want to Learn English" and identify the parts of the paragraph, including the topic sentence, the main points, the supporting details, and the...
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Boat Sentences
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that are needed to complete the four sentences while developing the skills of fluency and sentence structure.
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Twisted Textbook
In this paragraph structure worksheet, students read an excerpt about Europe and identify the sentences that focus on human characteristics as well as physical characteristics. Students rewrite the selection as two paragraphs that...
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Creating a Story that "Stacks" on Itself and Repeats a Catch Phrase
Learners explore language arts by reading a classic children's story in class. In this story structure activity, students read the Judith Viorst book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Learners discuss the...
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Language with Linguistic Legos
Students visualize and manipulate sentences as building blocks, and, given a key, use Legos™ to demonstrate how to construct sentences of variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).
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The Clause That Refreshes
Students define specialized terminology involving parts of speech. They identify main and subordinate clauses and create complex sentences. They edit and revise writing to incorporate complex sentences and identify parts of speech...
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A Novel Ending/ Closure Activity
Students summarize a story, identify the plot structure, and create a symbol that represents the essence of the story.
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The Future Tense - Future Perfect
In this future tense worksheet, learners complete sentences in different variations of the future tense by filling in the blanks. Students complete 42 sentences.
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1st Grade - Act. 22: Retelling the Tiny Seed
First graders write sentences and illustrate ways seeds travel.
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Eliminate Fragments and Run-ons
Fix fragments and run-ons. Kids practice editing a piece of their own writing, read, and take notes of common examples. They practice connecting independent clauses and then use the information to edit previously written pieces. Note:...
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Intermediate General Review Test
In this revision worksheet, students correct the mistakes in sentences, combine sentences, insert verbs in sentences, and more. Students complete 4 problems total.
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Fragments
In this sentence correction worksheet, students read the sentences for each example. Students find the fragment and circle it.
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Fragments
In these sentence correction worksheets, students read the sentences and determine if the underlined portion contains a fragment error. Students select the choice that corrects the mistake.
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Fragments
In this sentence correction worksheet, students read the passage about a mermaid. Students then locate and fix the fragments within the passage.
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Fragments
In these sentence correction worksheets, students read the short passages in each example and then determine which part is a fragment. Students circle the fragment.
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Combining with Participial Phrases
Combine participial phrases and creative writing with this instructional activity, which is equally helpful for writing skills and conventions. After a mini-instructional activity on participial phrases and reading the picture book...
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Convey Ideas in Writing
Use the platforms of the 2004 presidential candidates to bring persuasive writing to your class. Young voters identify the three issues most important to them in the election and research the issues and candidates' positions. They write...
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Paragraph Writing, Part II
Come up with a list of requirements for this expository essay on Esperanza's character in Esperanza Rising as a class and use the list to guide class writing. Here, learners will complete the first paragraph, discuss their notes for the...
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Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
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Things That Make Britain Great
Take a trip to Great Britain with this fun reading activity! Young learners read an article about many famous attributes of Britain - 101 of them, to be exact - and finish several comprehension and grammar activities about what they have...
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Reading Comprehension 1: Level 11
Here’s a reading comprehension assessment that will capture the interest of your learners. Stink bugs and the danger they pose to farmers is the subject of the passage, while the eight questions ask readers to infer, predict, summarize...