This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style

Designed to help students practice the elements of sentence design, these games provide different levels of difficulty for users of all ages. The sentence variety games include: Is This a Compound Sentence, Logging Sentences, Make a...

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.

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.

This tutorial provides information about the sentence fragment. Several examples are provided to support the explanations. A PowerPoint is available on the site for additional tutorial information regarding sentence fragments and other...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on writing effective introductions and conclusions and tying them together. It also discusses varying sentence structures. Practice exercises are...

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.

After students 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...

Four simple rules for students to follow when editing sentences to make them more clear and concise. By looking at the use of prepositions, verb choices, active voice, and more, students can learn to improve their sentence writing...

This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...

This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.

This entry explains and provides examples of comma splices and fused sentences and how to fix them.

This entry focuses on sentence pattern transformations including to active/passive voice, cleft, interrogative with yes or no answer, negative, emphasis, and to interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. It includes an explanation and...

In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....

Students will brainstorm adjectives to describe the American Flag and will write two descriptive sentences for homework. Students will also create star art to accompany their writing to show the relationship between words and pictures...

Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...

You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text with a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, transitions, appropriate facts, and details.

Using a "Write the Room" activity to identify punctuation motivates students to practice this new skill. Students will place punctuation marks in the proper place using clues from signs around the room. Included is a video of the lesson...

This is a challenging first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a simple program to analyze one or more paragraphs of text. Your program will count sentences, words and letters, and report the resulting...

Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.

This lesson focuses on recognizing run-on sentences and demonstrating revision for run-on sentences. It discusses common causes of run-ons and ways to fix them, as well as, a practice activity.

This activity focuses on recognizing sentence fragments and demonstrating revision for sentence fragments. It discusses common causes of fragments and ways to fix them, as well as, providing practice activity.

This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.

This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...