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Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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Compound Sentences
In this literacy worksheet, learners create compound sentences for the fifteen questions. They practice using the correct connecting words.
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Sentence Skills
In this spelling skills instructional activity, students respond to 10 questions in which they must correct misspelled words, identify antonyms, and rewrite sentences.
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"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs": DRA
Students participate in a directed reading of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," doing word work, comprehension activities, and presentations.
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Orange Pepper: Print and Color
In this word recognition instructional activity, students trace the compound word "orange pepper", write the compound word independently, and color the picture of an orange pepper.
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Cable Car: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "cable car," write the compound word independently, and color the picture of the cable car.
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Tool Box: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "tool box," write the compound word independently, and color the picture of a tool box
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Sand Dollar: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "Sand Dollar," write the compound word independently, and color the picture of the sand dollar.
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English Language Practice Worksheet
For this English language practice worksheet, students correct mistakes in sentences. In this fill in the blank worksheet, students write six answers.
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Apostrophes Used in Contractions and Possessions
In this writing worksheet, students read about the proper use of apostrophes in possessives and contractions. They decide if 10 statements are written correctly and correct any errors that they find.
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Daily Oral Language Activities: Idioms
Third graders examine the use of idioms. In this vocabulary and reading lesson plan, 3rd graders explore what idioms are and make their own idiom cards to help them understand the use idioms in language.
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Notorious Confusables
In this similar words worksheet, middle schoolers complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about words that are easily confused. Students choose the best word to complete each sentence from 2 similar words....
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Full Moon: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the compound word "full moon," write the word independently, and color the picture the man in the moon.
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Compound Sentences
Third graders write sentences that have the same topic using a comma and and, as well as practice writing new compound sentences by combining five pairs of sentences on paper. They then work in pairs and take turns writing simple...
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Compound Sentences
In this compound sentences activity, 3rd graders combine two sentence using the word "and". In this short answer activity, students write four sentences.
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Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, 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 procedure. They spell...
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The Complex Sentence
Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this activity on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex sentence...
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Pronouns
Subject, object personal. Possessive, reflexive, indefinite. Everything you want to know about pronouns and their antecedents is contained in a colorful 32-slide presentation.
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Varying Sentence Structure
Show your writers how to use simple, compound, and complex sentences to add variety to writing. In addition, examples show how to employ semicolons and coordinating conjunctions to combine sentences. Colorful illustrations and graphics...
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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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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Use this types of sentences activity 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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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Use this grammar activity to help your young writers with sentence variety. Middle schoolers determine if the sentences are simple, compound or complex sentences. There are eleven questions on this page.
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Examine eleven sentences and identify them as simple sentences, compound sentences, or complex sentences in this grammar activity. Use the activity as a quiz, review lesson, or homework assignment.
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Writing Interesting Sentences
Help your class build their own 20-word sentences with this step-by-step guide designed to enhance sentence depth, interest, and variety in the work of young writers. They complete five basic SVO sentences using a given word bank....