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Simple, Compound, or Complex? WorksheetSimple, Compound, or Complex? Worksheet
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K12 Reader
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3rd - 7th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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10 mins
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2013
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Simple, Compound, or Complex?

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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.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

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

Additional Tags

english language arts

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

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