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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
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Other

Newswriting for Radio: Broadcast Sentence Structure

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A fabulous Newscript.com site for broadcast news writing. You can learn how to craft the perfect sentence for radio listeners.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Length and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence length and style; it lists four types of sentences: fragments, short sentences, long sentences, and run-ons. It explains the effect that is achieved by using each of these sentence types for...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
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Other

English Grammar Revolution: Types of Sentences

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site offers a brief tutorial on the four types of sentences, then two exercises of 10 sentences each, for student practice or assessment. Answers are also available.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson plan is short but it...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson starts with the simple sentence and explains sentence parts, independent clauses, types of sentences, coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, and sentence errors (comma splices and fused sentences). Links to practice...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: What Are Sentence Fragments?

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module provides a clear explanation of sentence fragments. Hints for finding sentence fragments are provided, along with explanations about how to fix them.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Compound Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.
Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Practice 1: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo: One Word Sentences and How They Work

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Emma Bryce explains how one-word sentences illustrate some lexical ambiguities that can turn ordinary words and sentences into mazes that mess with our minds. [3:28]
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Parts of Speech in Sentences: The Order of Operations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this comprehensiv learning module students identify the parts of speech by following a certain order until each word in a sentence is labeled. In a variety of exercises, learners practice finding verbs, prepositional phrases,...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 5 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

Englishfor Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: 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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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 12 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 12 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

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