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Reading Non-Fiction Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 5th
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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Sentence Elaboration with Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore language arts by reading an English related story. In this sentence structure lesson, students identify prepositions and discuss how to utilize them effectively in sentence writing. Students read the story "A Day at the...
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Run On Sentences

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders review three sample sentences in order to identify sentence structure, and to practice how to edit sentences appropriately. They work with a partner to define a run-on sentence and identify three ways to correct it. They...
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Subject and Predicate

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
The subject and the predicate are two vocabulary words that every young writer must know. This short, but effective, presentation aptly describes what the subject and predicate are, what role they play in a sentence, and offers some...
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If I Could Have Lived in Another Time or Culture

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop multi-paragraph compositions. They include an introduction, first and second level support, and a conclusion. They use a variety of sentence structures (e.g., simple, compound/complex) and sentence types (i.e.,...
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Window of Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students imagine that they are looking out (or in) a window with four panes and write about what they see using a variety of sentence structures. They create a paragraph about what they see looking through their window on Thanksgiving day.
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Minibeasts and Reading Strategies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore reading strategies through roleplaying. In this reading lesson, 4th graders read Wings, Stings, and Wiggly Things by Martin Jenkins. Student groups pretend to be a law firm and identify words as their evidence to...
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LanguageBuilder for iPad

For Students 4th - 12th
Help your child hone his/her verbal communication skills and basic understanding of sentence structure with an app that promotes descriptive verbal interactions. The child is presented with an image, prompted to make a sentence, and then...
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Connectives

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Using connectives and conjunctions is an easy way to vary sentence structure. Third graders review the given connectives, then use them to combine two simple sentences. The second section allows learners to use more words and phrases as...
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What Is in a Sentence, Paragraph, and Story?

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...
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Silly Sentences

For Teachers K - 8th
Students read and illustrate silly sentences.  For this sentence structure lesson, students draw illustrations to reflect the parts of one of the silly sentences.  Students pictures should show all the parts of their...
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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure

For Students 4th - 8th
In this clauses and sentence structure worksheet, students identify independent and dependent clauses. Students correct sentences that contain errors in structure.
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Basic Sentence Structure

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this sentence structure worksheet, students write sentences, write the subject and predicate, and punctuate correctly. Students complete 3 activities.
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Building Sentences

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this sentence structure worksheet, students practice putting together sentences. Students are given three sets of words and are to make complete sentences using all three of the words.
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Assignment .11 Sentence Construction

For Students 6th - 9th
In this sentence structure worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions that require them to follow the the provided instructions to create original sentences with the listed parts of speech.   
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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz

For Students 2nd
In this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about punctuation, sentence structure, punctuation, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
Interactive
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Grammar Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this interactive sentence structure worksheet, students make a sentence by re-ordering the words and punctuation. Students add the words to the sentence by clicking on them and dragging them to the sentence. All of the words and...
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Fifth Grade English/Language Arts Quiz

For Students 5th
In this language learning exercise, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, commas, parts of speech, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3

For Teachers 11th - 12th
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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Writing Concisely: Deleting or Replacing Unnecessary Information

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Are you actually feeling really tired of reading wordy, redundant, long, lengthy sentences practically all the time over and over again? Introduce writers to this handout and exercise to teach to tighten up their prose! Provides two ways...
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Mechanics Mania

For Teachers 4th
As part of test prep, or a way to cement writing skills, this presentation would be superb. Students often have trouble with capitalization rules and commas. Coverage of mechanics uses well-thought-out examples.
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Sentence Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore and study what they already know about grammar and sentence structure to reinforce their mastery of assessing the eight parts of speech. They match a set of colored word cards with their correct part of speech and create...
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Sentence Structure and Punctuation 5

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this sentence structure and punctuation worksheet, students join the 2 sentences to form 1 sentence using the words provided in brackets.
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Complex Sentence Structure

For Students 5th - 9th
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding complex sentence structure. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

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