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...

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

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

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