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Subject and Predicate
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
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
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
Fourth graders explore reading strategies through roleplaying. In this reading activity, 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
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
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?
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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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure
In this clauses and sentence structure instructional activity, students identify independent and dependent clauses. Students correct sentences that contain errors in structure.
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Silly Sentences
Students read and illustrate silly sentences. In 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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Basic Sentence Structure
In 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
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
In this sentence structure worksheet, learners 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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Grammar Worksheet
For 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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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
In this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about punctuation, sentence structure, punctuation, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Fifth Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
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
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
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
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
Learners 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
In this sentence structure and punctuation activity, students join the 2 sentences to form 1 sentence using the words provided in brackets.
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Complex Sentence Structure
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding complex sentence structure. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Paragraph Structure
Make sure your writers have the buns and the meat in their paragraph burgers with paragraph exercises. The resource gradually leads up to individuals writing their own paragraphs, starting with identification exercises, moving on to...
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For Thanksgiving: Add the Nouns and Adjectives
The plump flower was on the dining table? This is just one of many fun sentence combinations kids can make using this Thanksgiving-themed sentence frame worksheet. They use a word bank to insert nouns and adjectives into six sentences.
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Write it, Read it, Draw it!
With nine pages of different sentences, you wont run out of practice writing, reading, and drawing. Learners read jumbled words, put the in the correct order to create a comprehesable sentence, and then write it, say it, and draw it.