Does your class dread using semicolons? Use this resource to join two independent clauses using either a comma, semicolon, or colon. Several examples and six practice sentences are available at the bottom for learners to choose the...

Here's a clever classroom game that will help learners with their sentence writing skills. It's a fast-paced game that is played in groups. Each makes up scrambled sentences that the other groups must solve. There are plenty of examples...

The AP Literature and Composition exam is all about close reading. Test takers are presented with a passage and asked to analyze how an author uses literary devices to create a desired effect. Prepare your students for the exam with a...

In this kinds of sentences worksheet, students study examples of declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. Students read ten sentences and tell what type they are and put in the ending punctuation.

Develop vocabulary in your young learners with this resource. There are a series of sentences here, and elementary schoolers must choose a word from the list to complete each of the 12 sentences. Example words include abolished,...

Explore communication through writing by analyzing individual sentences with young writers. They practice writing compound sentences and identifying sentence fragments. The next step has them learn the five parts of a friendly letter....

Explore language arts by completing a worksheet with class. They read the story Owl Moon and discuss the rhythm of the writing and how action verbs are used appropriately. Then complete a writing worksheet which discusses writing...

Eliminate run-on sentences! This practice opportunity highlights run-on sentence errors and how to fix them. Examples are shown, and learners are given two options: using semi-colons or commas and coordinating conjunctions. Help polish...

Knowing the parts of speech can make you a better writer! Young grammarians use sets of two and three adjectives to write engaging sentences, taking care to use the adjectives in the correct order.

Don't just rely on adjectives to describe the nouns in your sentence! Use a handy worksheet to review prepositional and adjective phrases. Learners read eight sentences and add prepositional phrases as adjectives after either the subject...

Use a traffic light to model a very basic paragraph plan. The Go, or topic sentence, is written in green and expresses an opinion about the topic. Information that supports the opinion of the Go sentence is written in yellow and the...

Use a worksheet to help learners identify the topic sentence and transitional words. They eliminate sentences that do not belong in the paragraph and name the pattern of organization used. Great for homework or extra credit.

Provide young writers with a printable that lists suggestions for and examples of transitional sets and closing words. Also included are some suggestions for what to avoid in closing paragraphs.

For this lesson on run-on sentences worksheet, 7th graders read the explanation and examples of sentence construction and punctuation, then rewrite 10 sentences correctly.

In this making passive sentences worksheet, students are given a list of subjects and verbs. Students write sentences in the passive tense using the words provided.

Practice using commas with adjectives with a learning exercise highlighting coordinate and cumulative adjectives. After reviewing definitions and examples, learners show what they know by correctly punctuating 10 sentences with...

Following a brief definition of the required components of a complete sentence, and models of incomplete or sentence fragments, learners are asked to revise a series of sentence fragments into complete sentences. Suggested rewrites are...

All shapes have certain defining attributes that set them apart from others. In order to understand this, young mathematicians look at examples and non-examples of triangles, rectangles, and squares, working as a whole class to create...

This worksheet on metaphors is your ticket to better writing! As learners read ten sentences, they underline the metaphor and circle the two objects of comparison.

In this sentence order worksheet, learners read the sentence examples in each box. Students order the sentences and write the sentence letters in order. Learners complete 5 examples.

As the unit on research writing draws to a close, class members continue to revise and edit their papers, this time focusing on grammar, spelling, and punctuation (colon and semicolon).

Ah, the comma splice; somehow it works its way into middle and high schoolers' writing quite often. To start, this worksheet defines comma splice and focuses on the four ways to correct them. For practice, pupils correct the comma...

Plural, proper, and common nouns are all included here. After reviewing the definition of a noun and reading an example sentence, learners underline the nouns in each of 15 sentences. Each sentence lists how many nouns are present, so...

For this language arts worksheet, students learn that conjunctions can tie two parts of a sentence together. Students read the first half of a sentence and add a second phrase, choosing a conjunction from the list: and, or, but, because...