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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson defines and provides examples for each of the types of sentences: simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A slideshow introducing simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex sentence types. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
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TES Global

Tes: Sentences: Simple, Compound and Complex

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable reference provides notes and examples of different types of sentences. Simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences are discussed on the resource pages.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Tu3083 Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing sentence structures. This blendspace includes three video lessons, posters, and interactive practice activities.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Simple Sentences: Oh So Happy!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Six slides introducing simple sentences, explaining how they are formed, and demonstrating how they can be linked together to create a compound sentence.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will explore compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. They will also combine simple sentences into compound sentence.
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Quia

Quia: Simple and Compound Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Do you know the difference between simple and compound sentences? Find out what you know about by taking this practice quiz.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces compound sentences and how they are constructed.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Compound Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes links to videos, and activities on compound sentences.
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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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students structure sentences using literary techniques to use a variety of literary techniques including simple, compound, and complex sentence structure.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Complex sentences are simple sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on complex sentences; it explains what makes up a complex sentence: independent clause, dependent clause, and a subordinate conjunction. It discusses placement, order, and how to punctuate them accordingly.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Types of Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A ten-question exercise where students read each sentence and decide if it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any questions missed.
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English Club

English Club: Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial discusses the importance of using sentence variety in the context of paragraphs. The tutorial provides information about sentence types, sentence patterns, and sentence lengths.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the kinds of sentences and how they are punctuation including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
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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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