Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on adding variety to your writing with sentence openers. A PowerPoint presentation explains sentence openers and gives examples of ways to create interesting sentences, such as beginning with a prepositional phrase,...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Learners will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Parts Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quiz is "a very basic quiz" that covers the various parts of a sentence (clause, gerund, adjective, preposition) in a ten question matching format.
Handout
ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Parts of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the world of "Parts of a Sentence." Find out about adjectives, nouns, prepositions and more. This site features an overview of each part of speech.
Interactive
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Airplane Flight Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Robert Burleigh's picture book entitled Flight is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Learners will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Predicates, Objects, Complements

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a glossary covering predicates, objects, and complements. The information on predicates includes a simple predicate, compound predicate, complete predicate, predicate adjective, and predicate nominative.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjectives: Adjective Order Game: Famous Place

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten adjective order games with sentences about famous places. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjectives: Adjective Order Game: Famous Men

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten adjective order games with sentences about famous men. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjectives: Adjective Order Game: Famous Women

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten word order games with sentences about famous women. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Strange Creatures

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten word order games with sentences about magical and mythical creatures. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Weird Animals

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten word order games with sentences about odd animals from around the world. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Famous Festivals

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten word order games with sentences about festivals celebrates around the world. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Strange People

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten word order games with sentences about odd people from different places around the world. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Great Films

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten word order games with sentences about popular movies. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A clear, concise explanation of adjectives, including some tricky usages, how to order adjectives in a sentence, and some idiomatic uses of prepositions with -ed participles. The emphasis is on HOW adjectives are used more than on WHY...
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English Zone

English Zone: Formal Adjective Clauses Exercise 30

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A ten-question exercise with each question consisting of a pair of clauses. Students are asked to combine the two clauses into one complete sentence by using the second clause to create an adjective clause. Students can check their...
Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Sass: Sentence Structure [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing guide defines independent and dependent clauses and explains how dependent clauses are used in sentences. With examples. [PDF]
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Variety: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson discusses how to use variation in sentence structure to produce more effective writing.