PPT
Curated OER

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Guide young grammarians through common sentence structures with a helpful slideshow presentation. Focusing on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, the presentation helps individuals to see the elements that make up...
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Curated OER

Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Take the complexity out of writing complex sentences. Young writers practice taking two ideas and putting them together to make a complex sentence. Create a list of subordinating conjunctions to help each individual make better sentences.
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Ms. McLaughlin's Homework Page

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Find out just how much your pupils know about simple sentences, subjects and predicates, sentence fragments, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, compound sentences, complex sentences, and more! This review page includes...
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Teacher Created Resources

Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Support scholars' ability to write complex sentences with a two-page activity designed to inform and reinforce. Here, learners obtain a brief overview of what a complex sentence is and how one is made; then apply their new-found...
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K12 Reader

Simple, Compound, or Complex?

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Check your class's understanding of compound, simple, and complex sentences with a quick and straightforward exercise. Pupils read ten sentences and choose whether each one is a simple, complex, or compound sentence by checking one of...
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K12 Reader

Expand it! Writing Complex Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Instruct your pupils to make those simple sentences complex! For this exercise, learners are given eight pairs of complete sentences and subordinating conjunctions. It's their job to transform each sentence by using the subordinating...
Handout
Nosapo

What Is in a Sentence, Paragraph, and Story?

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...
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Curated OER

Complex Sentences Made Easy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand that a complex sentence combines two ideas. In this complex sentence lesson, students use subordinate conjunctions to combine simple sentences. Students complete a worksheet.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sentence Combining

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students combine simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.  In this combining sentences lesson, students are given short, choppy sentences and combine them into more mature sentences.  Students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Grammar in Context: Using Sentence Combining to Teach Subordination

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Reinforce sentence styles with this lesson, 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 spell...
Handout
Curated OER

Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.
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K12 Reader

Find the Pieces: Predicate Adjective, Noun and Verb

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
This activity is helpful! Young grammarians review ten simple sentences, each with a subject, linking verb, and predicate adjective, before noting each part of speech appropriately.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Teacher Kit Unit 1

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Nine lessons makeup a unit designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary through practice pages based on readings of African folktales. Each lesson consists of a mini lesson, a vocabulary review, and a worksheet. Topics include...
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Curated OER

Sentence Combining

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After a demonstration by the teacher of how to combine sentences, groups read a story loaded with short, choppy sentences and work together to combine sentences to create a more interesting tale. They record their version on a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kinds of Sentences

For Students 5th - 8th
Boost understanding of the four types of sentences with several exercises. To start off, read through the provided information about the types of sentences together. This will prepare your class to practice their new knowledge. Then,...
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Mobile Education Store

Rainbow Sentences

For Students 1st - 8th
Learners who struggle with grammar, foundational reading skills, and sentence composition can learn how to write proper sentences using an app that relies on research-based practice. It uses a color-coded formula that had been proven to...
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Curated OER

Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create different types of sentences. In this sentence writing lesson, students use various types of sentences to make writing interesting. Students play online games and use the interactive whiteboard to practice.
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Nosapo

Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense

For Students K - 8th Standards
Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past...
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McGraw Hill

Grammar Practice Workbook

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers...
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Curated OER

Language with Linguistic Legos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers visualize and manipulate sentences as building blocks, and, given a key, use Legos™ to demonstrate how to construct sentences of variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).
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Curated OER

Color-Coded Sentence Diagrams

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners read Ruth Heller's books and learn to identify various parts of speech. They label words according to the parts of speech and use the words to form simple and then more complex sentences. Afterward, they analyze sentences and...
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Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Tired of simple sentences? Bored by brief sentences? Plagued by boring sentences? Enrich your life and the writing of your pupils by modeling how to combine sentences to create more varied syntax. Groups then find a number of ways to...
Unit Plan
University of Kansas

Feelings - Thematic Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed Standards
Boost language skills with a unit all about feelings. Scholars from all grade levels take part in several lessons that incorporate specific vocabulary terms and adjectives while discussing their feelings with their peers. Reading...
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Mobile Education Store

StoryBuilder for iPad

For Students 2nd - 6th
Invite your kids to tell all sorts of stories with this interactive app. Learners view images and record their own voices as as they create short narratives to go along with the images. The app provides plenty of...