Sentence-Combining in Grade Eight

Writers combine the three short sentences presented in a series of clusters to craft longer, more interesting sentences. When finished, the sentences form a vivid description of the sights along a canyon trail. 

Although the intended audience is supposed to be familiar with grammar brush strokes, you could easily assign this worksheet and have writers simply combine the sentences provided to form one, sophisticated sentence. They experiment with...

Short, choppy sentences make choppy writing. Help your class improve their writing skills by learning different ways to combine sentences. They read a set of three sentences and then select the option that combines them best. As it...

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....

Challenge your writers to improve their writing by introducing them to 10 strategies they can use to vary their sentence structures. Each strategy is described and examples given. Pupils then create their own sentences using this...

Express what will be happening with exercises on present continuous for future arrangements, or future progressive tense. Several fill-in-the-blank and matching activities challenge kids to use the correct form of the given verbs. The...

Present information about simple sentences and compound sentences. Learners use this information to complete a quick exercise and as background for learning about sentence combining. 

Do your young grammarians need extra practice identifying the subjects and verbs in sentences? Practice with sentence combining? These four exercises also include work with compound subjects and verbs.

Have you ever graded a stack of essays that felt like a series of bland simple sentences? A helpful grammar presentation will help learners spice up their writing by varying their sentence style, making them stronger and more attentive...

Have your class focus on stylistic choices and sentence fluency by combining, decombining, and recombining sentences in professional writing, peer writing, and their own writing. They use punctuation to recombine sentences in a paragraph...