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Conciseness
Twitter has helped people learn to express their ideas in as few words as possible, but away from the 280-character limit, writers still struggle with keeping their writing short and to the point. Conciseness is the focus of a writing...
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Sentence Structure
Students focus on sentence structure, and how to construct the necessary elements for a sentence to be considered complete. They practice diagramming sentences, focusing on the independent and dependent clauses.
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Making Sentences in the Right Order
In this sentence construction worksheet, students complete 6 exercises in which a group of 4 to 5 words is analyzed and put in order to form a complete coherent sentence.
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Create Sentence Structure Books
In this sentence structure worksheet, 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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Kinds of Sentences
In this sentence structure learning exercise, students respond to 22 short answer questions that require them to write and identify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.
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Constructing and Using Different Types of Sentences with Support from The Shurley Grammar Method
Students analyze parts of speech, sentence structure, and ver usage in this ten lesson unit on grammar. Through games, activities, assignments, and printed material, the concepts are supported and reinforced in a creative way.
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Favorite Foods
Students draw a picture. In this favorite foods lesson, students list the foods they like to eat and form each like into a complete sentence. Students cut the word in the sentences apart and then arrange them in the correct order with a...
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Reading Fiction: Analyzing Sentences
Young scholars investigate sentence construction in fiction. In this sentence construction lesson, students examine examples of fiction work and discover why sentences are a certain length. Young scholars create their own...
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Fifth Grade Grammar Sentence Construction
In this grammar and sentences review instructional activity, 5th graders recall comma usage, parts of speech, types of sentences, punctuation marks, run-on sentences, and sentences and sentence fragments. Students write 25 answers.
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Faulty Parallel Sentence Construction Worksheet 2
In this grammar worksheet, students read and correct ten faulty parallel sentences. Students construct each of the ten sentences where they read grammatically correct.
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Fragments
In this grammar worksheet, learners complete the partial verbs in twenty-four fragments in order to make complete sentences out of each one.
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 3
For this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight word bingo game involving the sight words can, find, for, here, one, red, run, see, up and yellow. Students match sight words to sentence strips to practice using sight...
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The Language of Interrupting (1)
For this language worksheet, students participate in a language game involving twenty-eight sentence starters. Students draw a sentence and complete the thought.
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Practice with Using Different Tenses
In this grammar worksheet, students choose and circle the letter of the correct tense choice that makes ten sentences grammatically correct. Students then combine four sets of sentences so that the second sentence becomes a when clause.
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo
In this sight words worksheet, students participate in a sight words bingo game involving the sight words a, and, I, it, is, in, the, big, look, and my. Students match the sight words to sentence strips to practice using sight words in...
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Sentence Writing With Picture Word
In this writing complete sentences worksheet, students use the picture and the words in the word bank to construct each complete sentence. Students write 3 sentences.
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Sequencing / Story Events
Learners read a story and use sentence strips to order story events. In this sequencing lesson, students learn new vocabulary words centered around the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, preview the story, make predictions...
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Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students choose all words that logically complete the sentences. Students complete eight sentences.
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Vocabulary Practice
For this vocabulary practice worksheet, students choose words from a word bank to logically complete sentences. Students complete eight sentences.
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Clauses: The Trilogy
This activity could provide a good review of noun, adjective and adverb clauses for learners from upper elementary to adult ESL classes. Using the 20 question activity, students complete sentences and identify the correct clause type.
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Structure Practice: Direct And Reported Speech
In this sentence completion ESL online interactive instructional activity, students choose the multiple choice answer that best completes 20 statements. Students choose the most appropriate multiple choice verb to complete 10...
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Choose Your Toy
In this decision-making worksheet, learners choose 1 out of 6 toys for a young boy. Students match 7 vocabulary terms to their proper definitions. Learners fill in 3 blanks in 2 sentences. Students complete a variety of assignments about...
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Must Not vs. Don't Have to
For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite fifteen sentences involving activities that some must do, must not do and ones we don't have to do.
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What's Missing?
In this patterns worksheet, 2nd graders look for the patterns in a given chart, write in the missing numbers and complete eight sentences involving answers from the chart.