An outstanding presentation on what run-on sentences are, and how to fix them, awaits your class in this language arts PowerPoint. They are shown four different methods they can use to fix a run-on sentence. This presentation is meant to...

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.

Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and a song from the musical "Hamilton" allow middle schoolers to practice using punctuation to indicate whether sentences are indicative, imperative, or interrogative. 

Here is a great lesson on how to make a complete sentence. Young writers "drag and drop" the words using the mouse. This is a fantastic activity to use with "Word Wall Words." It provides practice in making sentences, as well as...

Given the two-sentence skeleton of a news story about a car theft/joy ride, budding writers create their own version of the story varying diction and sentence structure to heighten interest and complexity in their writing. Resource...

Learners practice sentence combining at increasingly difficult levels throughout a week. They begin with nouns and verbs and build to contrasts, parallels, etc. 

Using sentences from the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, this presentation explores the use of correct grammar. It starts out by giving examples of complete and incomplete sentences, and then moves on to nouns, verbs, and...

For this kinds of sentences worksheet, students study examples of declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. Students read ten sentences and tell what type they are and put in the ending punctuation.

A SMART board is a great way to get kids engaged and excited about grammar. Using this SMART board lesson and worksheet, pupils study the rules of conjunctions, clauses, and complex sentences. After they have worked on the exercises, a...

Capture the interest of your reader with terrific topic sentences. To practice hooking the reader, your class will be given writing prompts, and they must create topic sentences for each prompt provided. Encourage them to use different...

Explore communication through writing by analyzing individual sentences with young writers. They practice writing compound sentences and identifying sentence fragments. The next step has them learn the five parts of a friendly letter....

Although this practice opportunity is poorly organized, it does provide a chance for your upper elementary schoolers to identify complete sentences, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments. This worksheet also focuses on ways to correct...

Young scholars 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.  Young...

Learners practice combining sentences using the conjunction handout provided. They search magazines and newspapers to identify combined sentences that use conjunctions. Finally, these are rewritten again as two separate sentences.

Review sight words with readers. They will look over their sight words and come up with sentences for each of them. They also review the alphabet and identify unfamiliar words.

Students combine sentences to create compound sentences. They write about creating their own soda, then make their own soda, comparing and contrasting it with a national brand. They write a paragraph containing compound sentences.

What child doesn't like trains? Use this fun idea to practice writing. Young readers learn to write complete sentences by using a train graphic organizer made out of construction paper. Each section of the train (engine, boxcar, and...

In this nouns in sentences worksheet, students first read about the difference between direct and indirect objects. Students read ten sentences and write down the indirect and the direct object.

Use this grammar practice worksheet to have learners complete thirty fill in the blank and short answer questions related to conditional sentences.

In this grammar practice worksheet, learners match questions with their answers, create questions, make positive sentences negative, and put sentences in the present continuous tense. There are twenty nine fill in the blank and short...

In this grammar worksheet, students practice using apostrophes, put words in the correct order, identify whether a sentence is right or wrong, and select the correct form of the to be verb. Students answer thirty three short answer and...

In this grammar worksheet, learners write sentences from given words, determine the comparative forms of adjectives, and practice adjectives endings. Thirty two fill in the blank and short answer questions are asked.

In this English grammar worksheet, students match questions with their answers, put words in order to form a sentence, complete sentences in the present perfect form, and put verbs in the correct tense. Students answer thirty six fill in...

In this English grammar worksheet, students identify when to use should or shouldn't in a sentence, complete sentences in the correct order, and match questions with their answers. Students answer thirty six fill in the blank and...