Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
A ten-question practice exercise where students look at a set of three sentences and then choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1
An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length
After learners are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Writing
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Packed Zoo Sentences
In this lesson, If I Ran the Zoo, written by Dr. Seuss, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Proofreading
This lesson focuses on proofreading and editing including style, word choice, grammar, typos, tips for proofreading, proofreading strategies, and editing for language and sentence construction. It offers two videos: "5 Worst Typos of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Walking Through the Jungle
In this lesson, students will read and discuss story events and then write an informative sentence about one of the events.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Global Education Holdings: How to Revise: Eliminating Passive Voice
An eleven-question quiz asking students to identify active and passive voice in sentences. Percentage grades and correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Pronoun Choice Quiz
Ten choose-the-correct-pronoun sentences. Click Submit button to see right and wrong answers.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Parallel Structure
Defines the term and gives a number of detailed examples of its use. Also includes proofreading strategies to try. L.9-10.1a Parallelism
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Cause and Effect With "A Bad Case of Stripes" Day One
Learners will really be writing to sources with this lesson. They will write about cause and effects in a multi-flow map and then write sentences to explain the cause and effect relationships in this story.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Start & Stop Game: Adjectives
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find an adjective that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Verbs
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a verb that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start &...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Phrases
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a prepositional phrase that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good phrase can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Clauses
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a subordinate clause that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good clause can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Repeated Skip Counting and Multiplication
Students will explore how to write equivalent repeated addition and multiplication number sentences with the aid of calculators.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transitioning Topics Effectively
A seven-slide presentation that reviews transitions and discusses how to use them to move from one idea to the next.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Adjective or Adverb?
A clear comparison of adverb and adjective function in sentences for the advanced English learner. Two practice exercises can be printed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Other Parts of Speech
This lesson plan focuses on conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. It discusses the types of conjunctions and their uses, some prepositions and their uses including ending a sentence with a preposition, and definite and indefinite...