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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences ActivityGuide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences Activity
Publisher
Capital Community College Foundation
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6th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

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Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

active voice, adjectives, adverbs, cliches, commas, conjunctions, gerunds, interjections, modifiers, noun phrases, proofreading, punctuation, sentence structure, sentences, verb tenses, prepositions

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

L.7.1.c L.6.3.a W.6.1.c

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