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Sentence Combining-With Pirates!
Turn your emergent authors into sentence combining pros. They combine two short sentences to create one complex sentence. There are 5 sets of sentences to combine. Note: This worksheet has a pirate theme and would be perfect for National...
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Subject and Predicates, Oh My!
Eliminate all doubt when it comes to sentence structure with nine thorough lesson plans. Whether you want your young writers to vary their sentence structure or shore up their knowledge of conjunctions and semicolons, these lessons are a...
Mobile Education Store
Rainbow Sentences
Learners who struggle with grammar, foundational reading skills, and sentence composition can learn how to write proper sentences using an app that relies on research-based practice. It uses a color-coded formula that had been proven to...
University of North Carolina
Figures and Charts
Sometimes words aren't the best way to get information across to the reader. The eighth handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series describes different type of figures and charts to display complex information in a paper....
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Sentence Types: "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen"
Readers identify sentence types with 25 examples based on Bruno Lessing's short story "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen." For each, they choose from simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
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Clauses and Sentences
Review sentence structure using this presentation. Learners identify complete and incomplete sentences. Then, they read a list of simple sentences and make them more complex. After this experience, learners could take a look at their own...
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Interactive Sentence Quiz
In this interactive sentences worksheet, students read 15 sentences about euthanasia then complete an interactive quiz where they determine the type of sentence or phrase used. Choices include, phrase, incomplete sentence, simple...
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Sentences
Students create different types of sentences. In this sentence writing lesson, students use various types of sentences to make writing interesting. Students play online games and use the interactive whiteboard to practice.
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Visible Speech: What is a Sentence?
Use this straightforward presentation as a basic guide to your grammar unit. With explanations of the parts of a simple sentence (subject, verb, direct object), the slideshow is a good way to reinforce students' prior knowledge about...
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Subordination by Adjective Clauses
A must-see for teachers who are tired of reading essays full of simple sentences, this thorough and engaging presentation teaches students to subordinate independent clauses by turning them into adjective clauses. Don't be discouraged by...
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Improving Sentences 2
Looking for a good presentation which teaches how to write higher-level sentences? Then, this one is for you! Learners are shown how to expand their sentences by using connectives, adding clauses, and how to appropriately use commas to...
Nosapo
Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense
Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past...
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Sentence Completion: High-Intermediate Level
Learners can practice their reading strategies and comprehension skills with a sentence completion worksheet that comes with a detailed answer key. Whether you use the worksheet as an assessment or as a group or individual practice...
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Sentence Completion 9 Low-Advanced SAT Level
The explanations sheet is the key to a worksheet that asks learners to choose the best words to complete sentences. The answer and explanations pages not only identify the correct response but offer an extensive explanation for why one...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers...
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Language with Linguistic Legos
Middle schoolers 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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Color-Coded Sentence Diagrams
Students read Ruth Heller's books and learn to identify various parts of speech. They label words according to the parts of speech and use the words to form simple and then more complex sentences. Afterward, they analyze sentences and...
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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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Simple Sentences
In this grammar instructional activity, students identify the subject and predicate in 30 simple and more complex sentences. Students are able to read the detailed directions which are provided.
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Sentence Structure - Patterns
In this grammar worksheet, students join each simple sentence into a complex sentence by adding words to make one sentence of each pair an adverbial or relative clause.
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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Subordination Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students practice combining several short sentences in fifteen groups of sentences into one effective simple or complex sentence.
Pearson
Conditionals
Are you wishing for a great grammar presentation? Wish no longer with an engaging slideshow that focuses on the conditional verb form. Learners begin their sentences with wish before completing them with the correct usage.
University of Kansas
Feelings - Thematic Unit
Boost language skills with a unit all about feelings. Scholars from all grade levels take part in several lessons that incorporate specific vocabulary terms and adjectives while discussing their feelings with their peers. Reading...