A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.

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...

A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.

This site offers a brief tutorial on the four types of sentences, then two exercises of 10 sentences each, for student practice or assessment. Answers are also available.

A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.

Emma Bryce explains how one-word sentences illustrate some lexical ambiguities that can turn ordinary words and sentences into mazes that mess with our minds. [3:28]

A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.

Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this miniinstructional activity, middle schoolers explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."