Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Strategies and Exercises for Improvement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This module provides a practice exercise that will help students avoid writing sentence fragments.
Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence and Paragraph Sequence Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips for tackling the questions on the SAT Writing and Language Test that ask you to improve the order of sentences in a paragraph or paragraphs in a passage.
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Length and Style

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
eBook
Other

Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
Unit Plan
Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Unknown Type
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Topic Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Often, we ask students to find the main idea in the story- this helps when re-telling. Why not apply this idea to writing? Find the main idea and introduce your writing with that idea; just like with a book, it helps with re-telling!...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
Unknown Type
Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
Unknown Type
Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
Unknown Type
Towson University

Towson University: Sentence Pattern Transformations: Multiple Transf Exercise 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
Unknown Type
Towson University

Towson University: Sentence Pattern Transformations: Multiple Transf Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson, students explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Improving Sentence Clarity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good resource that lists many ways to improve upon the clarity of a sentence. Includes examples and exercises for students.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: "Lawd! Lawd! Lawd!"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by the character Charlie in Daniel Keye's Flowers for Algernon, the writer will craft sentences, using different dialects/sayings with correct dialogue punctuation. The writer will devote a page in his/her writer's notebook to...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson plan. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson plan. Students will develop...
Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Practice 1: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
During this interactive lesson, students will determine the number of finite verbs in each sentence or fragment.
Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
Unit Plan
Towson University

Towson University:online Writing Support: Self Teaching Unit: Avoiding Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This module focuses on what makes a sentence including parts of speech, subjects and predicates, and phrases and clauses. It then explains fragments and how to avoid them. It offers links to several exercises and a post-quiz.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...

Other popular searches