Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Writing a Well-Structured Paragraph
Practice with paragraphs while thinking about careers! Learners examine and discuss two sample paragraphs, marking the different elements (topic sentences, body, concluding sentences), and try out writing their own paragraphs. Focusing...
Road to Grammar
Five Ways to Speak More Naturally
Help your English language learners move toward conversing like native speakers. This document includes five easy sentence structure changes that make a big difference when speaking in English. Examples and explanations are included for...
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Even
Delve into the more nuanced parts of grammar with this ESL worksheet. Students work with the word "even" in ten different questions, which provide sentences in different contexts. They choose whether or not to use the word, and in what...
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Sentence Completion 10: Low-Advanced SAT Level
Commiserated, cogitated, ameliorated? Whether used as test prep or as part of a vocabulary study, the problems on this sentence completion worksheet will challenge your learners. Provide them with the detailed answer key and groups can...
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Word Order for Adjectives Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students explore the usage of adjectives. Students have fourteen sentences where they are to order the words correctly.
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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure
In this grammar worksheet, students underline each independent clause and circle each dependent clause in 5 sentences. They then determine whether 10 sentences are grammatically correct or not.
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Compound Sentence
In this sentence structure worksheet, learners review a definition and examples of compound sentences prior to responding to 10 questions that require them to label the parts of compound sentences.
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Connectives
Using connectives and conjunctions is an easy way to vary sentence structure. Third graders review the given connectives, then use them to combine two simple sentences. The second section allows learners to use more words and phrases as...
Nosapo
What Is in a Sentence, Paragraph, and Story?
Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...
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Building Sentences
In this sentence structure worksheet, learners practice putting together sentences. Students are given three sets of words and are to make complete sentences using all three of the words.
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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure
In this clauses and sentence structure worksheet, students identify independent and dependent clauses. Students correct sentences that contain errors in structure.
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Grammar Worksheet
In this interactive sentence structure worksheet, students make a sentence by re-ordering the words and punctuation. Students add the words to the sentence by clicking on them and dragging them to the sentence. All of the words and...
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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
For this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about punctuation, sentence structure, punctuation, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Fifth Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
In this language learning exercise, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, commas, parts of speech, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
San José State University
Writing Concisely: Deleting or Replacing Unnecessary Information
Are you actually feeling really tired of reading wordy, redundant, long, lengthy sentences practically all the time over and over again? Introduce writers to this handout and exercise to teach to tighten up their prose! Provides two ways...
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Sentence Structure and Punctuation 5
In this sentence structure and punctuation worksheet, students join the 2 sentences to form 1 sentence using the words provided in brackets.
K12 Reader
For Thanksgiving: Add the Nouns and Adjectives
The plump flower was on the dining table? This is just one of many fun sentence combinations kids can make using this Thanksgiving-themed sentence frame worksheet. They use a word bank to insert nouns and adjectives into six sentences.
K12 Reader
Prepositional Phrases II
Hidden within these sentences are prepositions; think your students can find them? After first reading a brief explanation of this part of speech, young grammarians are asked to examine eight sentences, underlining the prepositional...
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Fast Fact-Finding
Ever wonder why the sky changes color so often? Readers examine an informational excerpt from John Farndon's How the Earth Works. They underline key points as they read and then answer five response questions. Prompts review main points,...
Curriculum Corner
Write it, Read it, Draw it!
With nine pages of different sentences, you wont run out of practice writing, reading, and drawing. Learners read jumbled words, put the in the correct order to create a comprehesable sentence, and then write it, say it, and draw it.
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Sentence Structure and Punctuation 2
In this sentence structure and punctuation worksheet, students rearrange the 10 sets of words to form 10 sentences with the correct punctuation.
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Sentence Structure and Punctuation 3
In this sentence structure and punctuation worksheet, students rearrange the 10 sets of words to form 10 sentences with the correct punctuation.
San José State University
Avoiding Nominalization
Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...
San José State University
Transition Words
Translate transition words for your class with this handout and brief exercise. Fairly straightforward and informative, it includes sample sentences and a working link to a more complete list of transition words. There are two different...