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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Topic Sentences: Map Your Way to Writing One

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial on writing topic sentences includes 2 videos, 2 slide shows, and an audio clip. The first YouTube video explains the 4 parts of a topic sentence and tells where topic sentences belong. The 2 slide shows focus on the MAP...
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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: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on adding variety to your writing with sentence openers. A PowerPoint presentation explains sentence openers and gives examples of ways to create interesting sentences, such as beginning with a prepositional phrase,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on topic sentences; it defines them, gives the characteristics of effective topic sentences, tells what they are NOT, discusses how to create them, and provides examples of effective topic sentences.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on topic sentences using two slideshows. The first defines topic sentences, discusses purpose and placement, and provides a sample thesis statement followed by accompanying topic sentences samples. The second...
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice evaluating, adding to, and combining sentences in order to create sentence variety.
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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: Editing for Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on the appropriateness of sentence fragments. It defines sentence fragments and discusses how writers use them: to gain the reader's attention, to emphasize an important word or phrase, to answer a question,...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on run-on sentences and comma splices and solutions to fix them. It offers a YouTube video that defines and gives specific methods to correct run-on sentences and a PDF that reviews three solutions to run-ons and...
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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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Prose: Strengthening Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on strenthening sentences in compositions by combining sentences, varying sentence length, using active voice, and using parallel construction. It provides examples and a practice exercise.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.
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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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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Types

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 10 question quiz asks students to read sentences and label them as to type by selecting from options given. There are review links given to study before taking the quiz if desired; it is scored and feedback is provided when...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction: Sentence Construction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson from a grammar and writing unit focuses on sentence construction including writing clear, concise sentences useing the correct subject-verb agreement. It features links to The Writer's Handbook: Clear, Concise, Sentences,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Romanticism: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on parts of a sentence including simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, subject compliments, and complements. It also provides examples of each and a...
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Longman: Sentence Resources for Writers: Overview of Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A grammar assessment for the high school student to practice recognizing and writing sentences with correct word use, punctuation and mechanics. Includes ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay...
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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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