K12 Reader
Writing with Subordinating Conjunctions
Challenge young grammarians to turn sets of phrases into sentences by adding subordinating conjunctions on a short learning exercise.
K12 Reader
Which Is It: Subordinating or Coordinating Conjunction?
To demonstrate their understanding of the difference between subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, learners identify and label the conjunctions found in 10 sentences.
K12 Reader
Spot Them! Correct Conjunctions
Young grammarians demonstrate their understanding of conjunctions by identifying sentences on a short instructional activity that use conjunctions correctly.
K12 Reader
Expand it! Writing Complex Sentences
Instruct your pupils to make those simple sentences complex! For this exercise, learners are given eight pairs of complete sentences and subordinating conjunctions. It's their job to transform each sentence by using the subordinating...
K12 Reader
Adverb Clauses in Sentences
If you'd like your class to write in varied sentence patterns, use a learning exercise focused on adverb clauses to enhance their writing. After reading a short explanation and example of adverb clauses, young grammarians underline the...
Teacher Created Resources
Complex Sentences Made Easy
Support scholars' ability to write complex sentences with a two-page instructional activity designed to inform and reinforce. Here, learners obtain a brief overview of what a complex sentence is and how one is made; then apply their...
Ms. McLaughlin's Homework Page
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Find out just how much your pupils know about simple sentences, subjects and predicates, sentence fragments, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, compound sentences, complex sentences, and more! This review page includes...
BW Walch
Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
Curated OER
Teacher Kit Unit 1
Nine lessons makeup a unit designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary through practice pages based on readings of African folktales. Each lesson consists of a mini lesson, a vocabulary review, and a worksheet. Topics include...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.
Cloud Front
Grammar Camp Worksheet Packet
Whip your students' grammar skills into shape with this series of practice worksheets. Touching on all eight parts of speech, these exercises challenge learners to identify the relationships between different words...
Curated OER
Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.
Curated OER
The Heart of Your Paper: 11 Methods for Writing a Topic Sentence (or a Thesis Statement)
Help your young writers produce high-quality topic and thesis statements that go beyond basic wording and really illustrate complex ideas and critical thinking skills. From however and compound sentence statements to using...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Subordinating Conjunctions
This lesson is about the proper use of subordinating conjunctions. You will learn to make your writing more interesting by using conjunctions, but you will specifically focus on subordinating conjunctions such as because, when, while.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Subordinating Conjunctions
Learn how to use and understand the purpose of subordinating conjunctions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
Identify and use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions in sentences.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar Subordinating Conjunctions
An explanation of subordinating conjunctions with examples and example sentences. A chart showing their role in dependent clauses is also provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Main and Subordinate Clauses
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to use and understand main clauses and subordinate clauses to improve your writing.
Quia
Quia: Conjunctions
This is a 14-question, multiple choice quiz over conjunctions. Students read each statement paying attention to the punctuation around the blank and select the appropriate word.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: What Are Sentence Fragments?
This learning module provides a clear explanation of sentence fragments. Hints for finding sentence fragments are provided, along with explanations about how to fix them.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Common Mistakes
This interactive exercise provides eight questions for students. Students will identify verb errors and sentence fragments.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clauses: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces clauses and discusses how to recognize them. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Clauses."
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Comma Story
It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma...