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Compound Sentences
Here’s a quick review of compound sentences and how to create them. Your middle schoolers might not see the humor in the sample sentences, but older viewers certainly will.
Compound Sentence Worksheet
Use this scary story to help your students practice (or to test them on!) changing simple sentences to compound sentences. (For ESL)
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Use this types of sentences worksheet in your grammar lesson. Young writers read eight sentences and determine if each is simple, complex or compound. They write the answer on the line. There are no examples of these types of sentences.
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Sentence Types: "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen"
Readers identify sentence types with 25 examples based on Bruno Lessing's short story "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen." For each, they choose from simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
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Complex Sentences
Review the parts of a sentence! This short slide show describes simple, complex, and compound sentences. Examples of each are shown, and on the final slide, viewers finish five dependent clauses to create complete sentences.
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this instructional activity, which prompts young grammarians to build complex and compound-complex sentence structures. They respond to non-print text and identify subordinators as parts of speech...
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Simple and compound sentences
In this simple and compound sentences worksheet, students decide whether sentences are simple or compound sentences. Students also identify homophones, and plurals in sentences.
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Language Arts: Sentence Variety and Fluency
Students are able to identify, create, and evaluate three kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. They are able identify the purpose of various sentence types: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, and...
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Reading Non-Fiction Sentences
Students identify differences in types of sentences. In this sentence structure lesson, students discuss the different ways sentences are written according to their intended audience. Students create different types sentences...
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Create Sentence Structure Books
In this sentence structure activity, students create sentence structure books including the concepts of subject, predicate, simple sentences, objective pronouns, and more. Students create 8 books total.
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English Skills Worksheet 6.201
Review compound words, onomatopoeia, prefixes, and suffixes with your fifth and sixth graders. Each of the six exercises is short and simple, and the final exercise gives learners three options too choose from. They can use their weekly...
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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...
CK-12 Foundation
And and Or Statements: Number Lines
Compound statements are actually quite simple. A virtual interactive provides a means to graph solution sets to compound statements involving and and or. Users then answer a few challenge questions on these solution sets.
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Dependent Upon Clauses
Students say and write simple and compound sentences addressing the clauses that are used. In this sentences lesson plan, students try and speak with simple sentences only to see if they can talk without clauses.
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Sentence Stucture
In this analyzing sentences worksheet, 4th graders identify purpose, combining, types, and grammar. Students answer 10 questions.
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Diagramming Sentences
Show this presentation to demonstrate how to diagram sentences. Meant for more advanced grammarians who know the difference between indirect and direct objects, this PowerPoint adds on new elements to each slide. The graphics and sound...
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Sentence Structure - Patterns
In 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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Sentence (Structure) Recognition Practice
In this sentence clauses worksheet, sixth and seventh graders read ten sentences and write down whether the sentence is: simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.
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Journal Writing
Students creatively utilize a word processor in order to do daily journal writing. They explore with using simple, compound, and complex sentences in order to present ideas with clarity and precision. They gain computer skills while...
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Language with Linguistic Legos
Middle schoolers visualize and manipulate sentences as building blocks, and, given a key, use Legos™ to demonstrate how to construct sentences of variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).
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The ABC's of the Three Little Pigs
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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Independent and Subordinate Clauses
Middle schoolers identify independent and subordinate clauses and differentiate between the two. They discuss sentences, complete a practice worksheet, write independent clauses, and identify independent and subordinate clauses in the...
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Types of Sentence Practice
In this sentence worksheet, students read a set of 7 sentences, determining whether they are phrases, simple, compound or complex sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" button for feedback.
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How to Combine Sentences
Students practice combining sentences. For this writing lesson, students view essays and discuss how it can be revised, using sentence combining. Students practice this skill in their own essays.