Curated OER
How to Organize a Lesson Plan
Students fill out a lesson plan, just like their teacher. In this how to lesson, students discover the components needed in a lesson plan. Students plan a lesson and share it with the class.
TES Global
Tes: Sentences: Simple, Compound and Complex
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable reference provides notes and examples of different types of sentences. Simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences are discussed on the resource pages.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar Basics: Types of Sentences
This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...
Other
English Grammar Revolution: Types of Sentences
This site offers a brief tutorial on the four types of sentences, then two exercises of 10 sentences each, for student practice or assessment. Answers are also available.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Sentences
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Sentences: Oh So Happy!
Six slides introducing simple sentences, explaining how they are formed, and demonstrating how they can be linked together to create a compound sentence.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz
A ten-question exercise where students read each sentence and decide if it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any questions missed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
This lesson starts with the simple sentence and explains sentence parts, independent clauses, types of sentences, coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, and sentence errors (comma splices and fused sentences). Links to practice...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1
This slideshow lesson defines and provides examples for each of the types of sentences: simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences: Quiz
Choose the sentence that correctly combines two statements in order to create a complex or compound-complex sentence in this seven-question quiz.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simple and Compound Sentences | No Nonsense Grammar
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator:...
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: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Quia
Quia: Simple and Compound Sentences
Do you know the difference between simple and compound sentences? Find out what you know about by taking this practice quiz.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.
Quia
Quia: Sentence Structure Practice Game
An interactive game focused on sentence structure. Students answer fifteen increasingly difficult questions about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in order to win the game. Three hints are available, but if a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Sentence Types
Lessons and materials to teach simple, compound, and complex sentences to middle school students.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Types and Comma Rules
A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.