Use the present tense to create written assignments. Critical thinkers take a passage written in past or future tense and rewrite it in present tense. They then write a set of instructions in present tense.

I don't know why but I love teaching homonym lessons. This one encourages learners to look up and write a definition for a set of 10 different homonyms. Tip: Put new knowledge to the test and have the class fix a story that contains...

In this reading worksheet, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions by reading 1/2 page passages and answering comprehension questions. Students complete 25 questions.

In this ecology worksheet, students will review 10 vocabulary words associated with the basic principles of ecology. This worksheet has 10 fill in the blank questions.

Third graders spell words and define homophone.  In this making words activity, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words. 

Students investigate the process of writing an expository paper. The purpose of the paper is established in the introduction and the supporting details are sequenced in a logical order. The paper possesses punctuation and grammatical...

Students read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and write a friendly letter to Elizabeth George Speare, the author, discussing their points of interest in the novel with her.

Students practice and utilize phonograms (word families) found in the patterns of frequently used words. They assess strategies to assist them in dividing long words as well as to develop their phonemic awareness to new vocabularies....

A five-part learning module with links to texts, websites, and a video on compound sentences.

A five-part learning module with links to an image, videos, and texts about compound sentences and the coordinating conjunctions used to form them.

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.

This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines compound sentences and discusses conjunctions and punctuation to combine the sentences. It provides many examples utilizing color-coding to help define each of the sentence parts.

This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.

An exercise with ten sentences to help students identify and correct run-on sentences. Students read the sentence and then click on the answer choice that corrects any errors in the sentence. After making their choice, students can see...

A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.

This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.

A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.

What is "Logic"? What is a "Mathematical sentence"? This website provides definitions of both of these terms and defines examples of mathematical sentences ("open sentence" and "closed sentence") and provides examples of each. Use the...

Check out this extensive website focused on compound words. Find out how they are used in writing. Don't miss out on this informative site.

A six-part learning module including links to information, exercises, and learning games on dependent and independent clauses as well as simple, compound, and complex sentences.

A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos about simple, compound, and complex sentences and varying them in their writing.

An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while reviewing compound and complex sentences.

A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.