Interactive
Quia

Quia: Sentence Structure Practice Game

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An interactive game focused on sentence structure. Students answer fifteen increasingly difficult questions about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in order to win the game. Three hints are available, but if a...
Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
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Quia

Quia: Is This Sentence Correct?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site offers a 30 question, interactive sentence quiz. Students are asked to read sentences, decide if they are correct as written, and then select a response. Java is required.
Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences Power Point

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.
Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Compound Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.
Lesson Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Locating the Subject and Object in Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This tutorial explains what subjects and objects are and how they are different. It offers 3 videos using the characters Nancy and Patrick: the first explains how to find subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects; the second is...
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This resource focuses on text structure by defining the types of organizational patterns and providing examples of each. These are followed by a list of links to practice activities on text structure and main idea, as well as some videos.
PPT
Other

Prezi: Informational Text (Text Structures)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Slideshow introduces the concept of informational text or text structure.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Solve It! App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App helps students develop mental math skills through structured play activities. Students progress from simply filling in missing values to actually finding both a number and an operation to make a true sentence.
Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: 4th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This article focuses on the grammar of 4th grade including the beginning of more adult conversation, a grammar review from previous grades, more irregular verbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and improved sentence structure.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: What a Character

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Students will explore characters created by authors and identify personality traits, and then apply these ideas to their own characters using language skills identified to convey these traits. Students will write a character sketch,...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar Collection

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
In this No Nonsense Grammar Collection, students explore a range of commonly taught grammar principles for elementary and middle schoolers with these short, fun videos and activities. From the difference between dependent and independent...
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Brain

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the brain, spinal cord, and brain cells at this thorough yet easy to read site. Simple sentence construction is used to explain the structure and function of this body system. A glossary is just a click away to explain...

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