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...

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.

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.

In this seven question quiz, students are given a sentence and asked a question about parts of the sentence, such as what is the subject of the sentence, or what is the underlined part of the sentence called. They are to select from the...

A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.

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.

Click on Watch on YouTube to watch the FRONTLINE film "Stickup Kid." Then Do Now activity, students engage in a conversation around teen sentencing and discuss the question: Should teens under 18 be tried and sentenced as children or...

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...

A step-by-step approach to a common question type on the SAT Writing and Language Test: adding or deleting sentences.

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.

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.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 8 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 8 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 11 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

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.

Students will compare the number of circles in two boxes. If they are equal, they will write a number sentence. Explanations and examples are included.

Read a tutorial about coordinating conjuctions and when they can be used to begin sentences.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of ten nouns needed in Level 1 English.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships, jobs, places, and human body.

This entry focuses on avoiding shifts when writing sentences including shifts in verb tense, mood, number, person, discourse, and sentence structure. It provides explanation and examples of each type of error and explanation and examples...

Thse instructional practices use model or mentor sentences to help students learn how authors use conventions to clarify and convey meaning in their writing. These instructional practices are described in detail in Handout 14: Teaching...

Four printable exercises in which punctuation errors need to be corrected. 2.1 requires correction of compound sentences by putting in commas or semicolons where needed and getting rid of comma splices. 2.2 requires comma splice...

This site from the Capital Community College helps with paragraph development and topic sentences.