Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Writing: Compound Sentences
A five-part learning module with links to texts, websites, and a video on compound sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
In this lesson, students will explore compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. They will also combine simple sentences into compound sentence.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation
This entry focuses on the kinds of sentences and how they are punctuation including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Structure Is Important
A thirteen-part learning module with links to videos, texts, websites, and slideshows about sentence structure and avoiding sentence errors.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Other
Critical Reading: Subject and Predicate
Part of a larger site on "The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing," this section on the simple sentence focuses on the subject and the predicate. Definitions and examples are provided along with a section on...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentences: Compound, Complex, Compound Complex
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use a variety of sentence structures including compound, complex, and compound-complex.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Varying
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos about simple, compound, and complex sentences and varying them in their writing.
University College London
The Internet Grammar of English: Sentences
This site from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London provides a general overview of sentence structure. Content includes an online exercise, and is worth checking out on the subject.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Predicates, Objects, Complements
This is a glossary covering predicates, objects, and complements. The information on predicates includes a simple predicate, compound predicate, complete predicate, predicate adjective, and predicate nominative.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Choosing the Correct Pronoun Case
A ten-question self-correcting quiz reviewing pronoun usage in simple sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verb Tense Consistency
This entry focuses on verb tense consistency in sentences, paragraphs, and essays by explaining the importance of maintaining verb tense throughout each and providing examples of each.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creating Memorable Advice
Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Adverbs
Learn why adverbs are an essential part of the English language while viewing example sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Building Creative Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This simple activity will enhance the descriptive writing of primary aged children. By building upon each page of the flipchart over a period of several days, it makes the students more aware of nouns,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...
Other
Print and Learn: Writing Numbers
This simple website has a printable page for each of the numbers one through ten. On this sheet you can practice writing the digit, the word and the word in a sentence using manuscript printing.