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Worksheet
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Connectives

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Using connectives and conjunctions is an easy way to vary sentence structure. Third graders review the given connectives, then use them to combine two simple sentences. The second section allows learners to use more words and phrases as...
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PPT
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Introduction Paragraph

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Key parts of an introductory paragraph (grabber sentence, connecting information, thesis) are highlighted in a presentation that uses color-coded sample paragraphs to illustrate how these parts combine to form a complete opening paragraph.
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PPT
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Clauses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Look at the basic parts of a sentence with your class. Definitions of the subject, verb, and various clauses are all included. Clear, succinct examples are given in this thorough presentation. A great way to start off grammar with your...
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Clauses

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
This comprehensive worksheet covering the use of adjective clauses would provide a good review for middle school students and older learners in ESL classes. With 27 questions, students have various ways to show they understand how to...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals

For Teachers 3rd Standards
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 6: Gods, Giants, and Dwarves

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The halfway mark of a series offers final skills practice in spelling patterns, suffixes, and building sentences with conjunctions in preparation for assessments that gauge proficiency. Remediation and enrichment follow the test results...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 5: Adventures in Light and Sound

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Light and sound are the themes of a unit focused on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, grammar—adverbs, adjectives, synonyms, writing sentences with conjunctions, and listening and responding to read-aloud. Over...
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Lesson Plan
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Eliminate Fragments and Run-ons

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Fix fragments and run-ons. Kids practice editing a piece of their own writing, read, and take notes of common examples. They practice connecting independent clauses and then use the information to edit previously written pieces. Note:...
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Interactive
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Coordinating Conjunctions Post Test

For Students 7th - 9th
In this coordinating conjunctions worksheet, students decide the best way to write a sentence, choosing the answer that is both correctly punctuated and has the same meaning.
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Interactive
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Self-Test Quiz: Wild Children Part III: Comparing and Contrasting

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this comparing and contrasting worksheet, students are given pairs of sentences they must combine using the conjunction but.
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Worksheet
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Practice with Using Different Tenses

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate choice of words to complete ten sentences and then combine four sets if sentences so that the second sentence becomes a when clause.
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Interactive
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Adjective Clauses in Object Position

For Students 7th - 10th
In this adjective clause worksheet students are given two sentences they must combine using adjective clauses. Students are able to get a hint and check their answers in this interactive worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
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Writing - Combining Ideas to Write Descriptive Paragraphs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students develop a strategy for combining various ideas into well formed sentences which then combine to produce effective descriptive paragraphs.
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Lesson Plan
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Sentence Structure

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine good sentence structure and identify the subjects and predicates in a variety of sentences. They read the sentences on a handout and evaluate them for their structure, highlight the subjects and predicates, and...
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Worksheet
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 15

For Students 5th - 7th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete each sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Organizer
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Antonyms and Synonyms Sentence Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students connect words in a 48 space grid using horizontal and vertical lines to form sentences. They write sentences that include antonyms and synonyms.
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PPT
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Understanding Sentences

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Go over how to read complex sentences. Learners work on identifying key ideas, examining sentence structure, looking up new vocabulary, and paraphrasing. An overview of methods to help class members read difficult texts, half of the...
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Worksheet
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CTBS Usage Practice #3

For Students 6th - 7th
For this grammar worksheet, learners identify: topic sentences, simple predicate, simple subjects, and combined multiple sentences. They answer fifteen multiple choice questions.
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Lesson Plan
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Conjunctions

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Complete exercises for conjunctions in this conjunctions lesson. Middle schoolers work in pairs to combine sample sentences. They analyze the conjunctions and choose one to help them rewrite the sentences. Additionally, they may complete...
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Handout
San José State University

Writing Concisely: Deleting or Replacing Unnecessary Information

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Are you actually feeling really tired of reading wordy, redundant, long, lengthy sentences practically all the time over and over again? Introduce writers to this handout and exercise to teach to tighten up their prose! Provides two ways...
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Worksheet
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The Verbal Trio - Learning about Verbals

For Students 6th - 9th
Do you know what a gerund is? Use this grammar worksheet to help emerging grammarians learn about using different verbs (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 11 questions...
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Interactive
English Exercises

Relative Pronouns

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Provide your independent learner with some practice on relative pronouns. A brief explanation of when who, which, and whose is provided at the top of the screen before learners can scroll to two exercises. The first has them choose the...
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Worksheet
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Appositives and Present Participle Phrases (-ing word groups)

For Students 8th - 9th
Combine sentences with the help of this grammar resource! Learn how to combine sentences using appositives and present participle phrases. The first page focuses on combining two sentences and creatine one. On page two, writers practice...
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Focus on Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Students 5th - 6th
In this persuasive writing worksheet, students combine sentences to help them write a persuasive letter. Students complete three activities for sentence combining.

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