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Sentence Combining
Learners practice sentence combining at increasingly difficult levels throughout a week. They begin with nouns and verbs and build to contrasts, parallels, etc.Â
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Sentence Combining
Avoid short, choppy sentences in your class's writing by focusing on sentence structures. The first page in this two-page packet shows your class how to combine sentences using conjunctions, a list, an appositive, or compound predicate....
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Combining Sentences Using Appositives II
Provide young grammarians' additional practice using appositives to combine short sentences with this short activity that includes a definition and models.
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Grammar - Combining Sentence
For this grammar worksheet, students read lists of words and phrases to help them to combine sentences. Students read 3 lists of words and phrases.
Goleta Valley School District
Simple and Compound Sentences
Present information about simple sentences and compound sentences. Learners use this information to complete a quick exercise and as background for learning about sentence combining.Â
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Compound Sentences
Combine sentences using coordinating conjunctions to create compound sentences with your class! A straightforward activity, this resource provides a series of sentence pairs that are meant to be combined using one of the following: for,...
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Conjunctions
In this grammar worksheet, learners choose a correct conjunction to complete six sentences. Students write sentences by combining given groups of words. Learners combine sentences by using a conjunction.
Beatrice Public Schools
Sentence Fragments: Worksheet B
Have you diagnosed sentence fragments as an area of improvement within your class? If so, consider this worksheet that asks learners to eliminate fragments. For each question, writers are compelled to create more complicated sentence...
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Second Quiz on Combining Sentences
In this combining sentences worksheet, students combine four or five sentences into less sentences. Students combine 6 sets of sentences.
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Friendly Letter Writing and Sentence Structure
Explore communication through writing by analyzing individual sentences with young writers. They practice writing compound sentences and identifying sentence fragments. The next step has them learn the five parts of a friendly letter....
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Review of Compound and Complex Sentences
An excellent language arts worksheet. Learners read seven sentences and determine if each is simple, compound, or complex. In order to practice sentence combining, young writers join 10 sets of sentences to form compound sentences, and...
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Combining Sentences Using Appositives
If learners only use simple sentence structure, their essays can fall flat. Model how to combine short, choppy sentences with appositives to add interest and flow to individuals' writing.
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Sentence Combining-With Pirates!
Turn your emergent authors into sentence combining pros. They combine two short sentences to create one complex sentence. There are 5 sets of sentences to combine. Note: This worksheet has a pirate theme and would be perfect for National...
Millard South Patriots
Trait Practice: Sentence Fluency
Do your young writers need a little help varying their sentence structure? Have them work on common errors, sentence fluency, and writing patterns with a series of language arts activities. The resource includes reading passages as well...
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
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Clauses: Building Blocks for Sentences
Colorfully animated and packed with engaging examples, this PowerPoint encourages to employ clauses to create a variety of sentence structures. Peer editing of sample paragraphs would provide an opportunity for guided practice with...
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The Complex Sentence: Correcting Fragments
After defining and offering cogent examples of fragments and complex sentences, this activity presents pupils with two passages. One they must revise. For the second, an excerpt from an E.B. White essay, they must identify the fragments...
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The Compound Sentence: Correcting Run-ons and Comma Splices
Do some of your writers need an extra lesson on correcting run-ons and comma splices? This worksheet clearly defines the terms, provides models of run-on sentences, comma splice errors, and how to correct them. The second page of the...
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
Parts of Speech Verbs: Building Blocks of Grammar
Pupils begin with a brain teaser, take notes, and formatively check understanding with a Chinese proverb. In addition to parts of speech, the resource also includes information about parts of a sentence. Teachers may extend instruction...
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Sentence Combining
Work on combining sentences with this grammar practice worksheet. Middle schoolers rewrite six simple sentences to make compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
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Correlative Conjunctions
Learners choose the better of two options to complete 10 sentences; they must choose the singular or plural form of the verb to match the compound subject, whether the nouns are connected by and or by neither/nor. They identify the words...
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Using Commas with Coordinating Conjunctions
Teach your kids about FANBOYS! Coordinating conjunctions, or FANBOYS, join two independent clauses to make a compound sentence, but don't forget the comma! Review this popular comma rule, and give your learners this short activity. An...
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Grammar: Putting Sentences Together
In this sentence combining worksheet, students join the two short sentences together by selecting the best conjunction from the word bank.
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Clauses and Compound Sentences
Sentence variety is extremely important when it comes to learning the written word. Add variety to your learners' writing by focusing on clauses and compound sentences. The information provided is followed by a practice opportunity to...