Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences
An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to practice recognizing sentences that need to be revised to add variety and revising sentences by using additions and sentence combining.
Towson University
Towson University:online Writing Support: Self Teaching Unit: Sentence Combining
This lesson focuses on sentence combining including showing sentence errors and their corrections, providing six methods of combining sentences with examples of each and offering a link to a final quiz.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: English Ii Writing: Revision Strategies
This is a unit including six different lessons on on English II Writing: Revision Strategies including the following: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language, Strengthen Sentence Variety, Parallelism, Evaluating and Revising a...
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Combining Sentences
An exercise where students read six sets of sentences and combine each set into one sentence containing only one independent clause. Answers are typed into a box, and then students can check their work against the suggested answers to...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Combining Sentences With Appositives
An exercise consisting of ten pairs of sentences. Students are asked to combine the two sentences using an appositive and type the new sentence into the box. When finished, students can check the answers to see how they did.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Coordinating Conjunctions
An exercise with ten compound sentences. Students are asked to type the commas where they belongs in compound sentences with a coordinating conjunctions. Then students can check their answers to see how they did.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2
Practice evaluating, adding to, and combining sentences in order to create sentence variety.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising sentence variety and for sentence combining in an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sentence Conventions
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student will expand or reduces sentences (e.g., adding or deleting modifiers, combining or revising sentences).
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Participial Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF can be used as an overhead or handout. It shows how sentences can be strengthened when two or more sentences are combined with the use of participial phrases.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Mice Squeak, We Speak
In this lesson students will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story; "Mice squeak, We speak". Included in this lesson are examples of student work, videos of oral presentations, and puzzle pieces for new...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
Learners will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story "Does A Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?". Included in this lesson plan are videos of mother and baby animals, pictures of the lesson plan in action, and a...