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Sentence Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Clear up confusion surrounding simple, compound, and complex sentences. The poster, which could also be used as a reference sheet, includes five examples. The types of clauses, parts of speech, and types of punctuation are color-coded to...
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The ABC's of the Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Writers use varied sentence patterns. They listen to the story of Cinderella rewritten so that each sentence starts with the next letter of the alphabet. They create their own version of The Three Little Pigs using the same concept.
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Writing and Reading Center #1: Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 12th
Plagued with a horde of short, choppy sentences? Banish simplistic patterns from the writings of your pupils by modeling for them how to combine sentences to create lively, more interesting prose. Then provide them with a sentence...
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Writing and Reading Center #2: Sentence Combining

For Students 9th - 12th
Still plagued by short, choppy sentences in the writings of your class members? Here's another practice set that asks learners to combine a series of short sentences into a single, more interesting one. Could be used as an in-class drill...
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Sentence Patterns

For Students 5th - 12th
Supplement instruction on sentence patterns and types by providing this reference sheet for your class members. Included on this page are definitions of many different sentence patterns and an example of each. A useful item for pupils to...
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How to Use Sentence Variety to Strengthen Your Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Convey the importance of sentence variety and introduce your class to different sentence patterns. Have class members take notes or take some breaks in the presentation to practice writing the variety of patterns introduced. 
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Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs

For Students 7th - 9th
Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward instructional activity on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the...
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Sentence Structure - Patterns

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar instructional activity, students join each simple sentence into a complex sentence by adding words to make one sentence of each pair an adverbial or relative clause.
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Expressing Cause and Effect: Discovering Effective Sentence Patterns

For Students 5th - 8th
In this cause and effect practice worksheet, students collaborate as they complete 6 exercises that require them examine sentence patterns.
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Sentence Patterns – Review

For Students 5th - 8th
In this sentence patterns review worksheet, learners examine 8 sentences and rewrite each of them making corrections in sentence structure.
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Sentence Structure - Patterns

For Students 8th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite two paragraphs by joining simple sentences into complex and compound sentences. Students make sure each sentence is grammatically correct.
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Verbal Spin-Off

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
For this making sentences worksheet, students use spinners to determine sentence patterns and write them with correct verb tense.