Check your class's understanding of compound, simple, and complex sentences with a quick and straightforward exercise. Pupils read ten sentences and choose whether each one is a simple, complex, or compound sentence by checking one of the boxes next to each sentence.

Concepts

types of sentences, simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use this as a warm-up, homework assignment, or assessment
• Pair this basic practice with a sentence writing assignment in which learners must compose at least three sentences (one simple, one complex, and one compound) and share them with a partner

Pros

• An answer key is provided

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.3.1.i