Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure

Colorfully animated and packed with engaging examples, this PowerPoint encourages to employ clauses to create a variety of sentence structures. Peer editing of sample paragraphs would provide an opportunity for guided practice with...

In this lesson, students will learn how to edit sentences so they move seamlessly from one to another within a paragraph; however, they can use the same methods to ensure that paragraphs move seamlessly from one to another in an entire...

In this lesson, you will learn to edit your final draft using a step by step approach to complete the final stage of writing called editing.

This lesson will provide some tips about how to locate and correct agreement problems; then students will have a chance to practice their skills and feel more confident about writing sentences with subjects and verbs that agree.

[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...

A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.

This lesson's focus is limited to the editing process for writing conventions: subject-verb agreement, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

This lesson focuses on editing voice, verb tense, and syntax. It includes practice exercises.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...