Young scholars sharpen grammar skills with this activity. Composed of ten multiple-choice questions, this resource asks learners to practice coordination and subordination by choosing the correct conjunctions and clearest sentences. This...

Combine sentences using coordinating conjunctions to create compound sentences with your class! A straightforward activity, this resource provides a series of sentence pairs that are meant to be combined using one of the following: for,...

Commas can be quite confusing. Young writers target troublesome grammar skills by focusing on the four most troubling uses: joining two independent clauses, separating introductory materials in a sentence, separating unnecessary...

How much do your pupils know about correlative conjunctions? Show them the ropes and then provide this practice sheet. Start by having your class identify the subject and verb in the set of 10 sentences provided. Then they practice using...

This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...

Run-on sentences using and are all too common in our youngsters' writing. Have them read these different paragraphs to determine where they can remove some of the ands. Consider doing this activity as a whole class on the overhead or...

Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson plan, 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...

Avoid short, choppy sentences in your class's writing by focusing on sentence structures. The first page in this two-page packet shows your class how to combine sentences using conjunctions, a list, an appositive, or compound predicate....

Human impact on watersheds can make or break an ecosystem. Learners use a game to learn about the impact human choices have on water quality and the organisms that depend on it. The activity includes a game board and game cards that tell...

Scholars use their reading comprehension skills to answer questions about a short informative text regarding Christopher Columbus. A progress report follows eight questions—multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank. 

Sometimes it feels like young writers just place commas as they please! Ensure that your pupils uses these important punctuation marks properly by requiring them to study the information here and complete the grammar exercise....

Teach basic logic using Boolean operators. Young computer scientists learn about the operators NOT, AND, and OR, and how they can be expressed using Boolean notation, logic gates, or truth tables. Along the way, they learn about half...

The last unit in the series by Core Knowledge focuses on alternative spellings, nouns, verbs, conjunctions, subject-verb agreement, using commas in a series, constructing sentences, and following the writing process while writing...

Here’s a cross-curricular program music activity that uses Peer Gynt to engage class members. Groups take one section of “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” choreograph their section of the tune to represent the story as they imagine it,...

The slope of the land is an important feature when considering the erosion that will occur. In this resource, which is part of a rain garden unit, learners calculate the slope of the proposed garden site. Even if you are not planning a...

A lamp, four globes, and some signs taped around the room are all you need to set up a solar system simulation for teaching how Earth's tilted axis creates the seasons. (Sticky dots are also needed, but not mentioned in the materials...

In this coordinating conjunctions worksheet, students read about uses and view examples of coordinating conjunctions. Students read about clauses, joining clauses, and how to use the conjunctions.

In this ESL conjunction worksheet, students type the correct answer in a box, combining sentences using a subordinating conjunction. Students may click on "show a letter," "check" or "show answer" buttons.

In this grammar worksheet, students combine six pairs of sentences with correlative conjunctions. Students also complete nine sentences with a pronoun or subordinate conjunction to complete each sentence grammatically correct.

In this grammar activity, students combine six pairs of sentences by adding correlative conjunctions to each pair to make them grammatically correct.

For this commas worksheet, students complete a 10 question on-line interactive quiz about the correct use of commas with coordinating conjunctions. Students read the sentence and insert any necessary commas.

In this ESL conjunctions worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences accompanied by pictures, using either and, but or because correctly. Page has a link for audio and HTML code.

In this using a thesaurus worksheet, students read a sentence with a word underlined. Students use a thesaurus to change the underlined word to a stronger or more interesting synonym. There are 5 sentences.

In this commas learning exercise, students read how to use commas and then insert them into sentences. Students insert commas into 12 sentences.