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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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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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TES Global

Tes: Travel Writing Sow

For Students 4th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 100-slide PowerPoint presentation will guide students through a descriptive writing task. Students will be write extensive pieces about a travel experience.
Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Strategies and Exercises for Improvement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This module provides a practice exercise that will help students avoid writing sentence fragments.
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Other

English Made in Brazil: Writing English Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th
A very useful page from English Made in Brazil designed to help Portuguese English language learners write better in English. Subject placement, objectivity, brevity, and words of transition are some of the points discussed. Great examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing a Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource is designed to enhance the teaching of grammar in the context of reading and writing by using mentor sentences. In this resource, mentor sentences, or sentences that highlight a grammatical point, were chosen primarily from...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Topic Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Often, we ask young scholars to find the main idea in the story- this helps when re-telling. Why not apply this idea to writing? Find the main idea and introduce your writing with that idea; just like with a book, it helps with...
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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.
Unit Plan
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 1

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

Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this miniinstructional activity, young scholars explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."
Unit Plan
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.
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.
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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.
Unit Plan
Towson University

Towson University:online Writing Support: Self Teaching Unit: Avoiding Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This module focuses on what makes a sentence including parts of speech, subjects and predicates, and phrases and clauses. It then explains fragments and how to avoid them. It offers links to several exercises and a post-quiz.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson which allows young scholars to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
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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...
Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Writing Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Ottawa provides a wonderfully designed website that not only gives you exhaustive information on paragraph writing. Students will engage in starting with outlines, writing topic sentences, dividing their...
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Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: Historical Writing: Writing Resources for Students

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Resources for helping students to write historical essays. Includes a movie trailer to demonstrate the traits of a good introduction, tips for writing a paragraph, tips for formal writing, and guidelines for citing sources.

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