Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: To Be Perfectly Honest
Think about a time you lied. You are going to write a description about a time when you were less than truthful. When you are ready to begin writing, get some scratch paper and a pencil, then click the button and follow the directions on...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision of Word Choice [Pdf]
Helping students revise their rough drafts can be a difficult process. Make it a little easier with this 3-step lesson regarding revision of word choice.
Quia
Quia: Sentence or Fragment?
In this ten-question exercise/assessment, students determine if each group of words is a sentence or a fragment.
Quia
Quia: Sentence Types
An interactive exercise where students read sixteen sentences and decide if each sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and a score summary is displayed when...
EL Education
El Education: Our Classroom Teacher Mrs. Wong
Students learn to write and ask interview questions by interviewing their teacher. Students then write and illustrate the answer to each question to create a book about their teacher.
TES Global
Tes: List of Past Reading/writing Tasks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides a list of performance tasks that have been assigned to from 1998 to 2010.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Using Complete Sentences
This interactive focuses on complete sentences; it provides notes explaining what makes a complete sentence and two practices identifying complete sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Complete Sentences From a Question
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart, students can practice using words from a question to give an answer in a complete sentence.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Combining Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains opportunities to combine sentences focusing on subjects and predicates.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Joining Telling Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides practice for combining telling sentences.
Other
Woodward English: At on in Prepositions of Time
Complete each sentence by choosing the correct preposition in this twenty-question quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Order: Creating Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students move words from the bottom of the page to create sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students can interact with the board while learning about complete sentences. They can use the Activotes for the answers if the teacher chooses.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Transforming Speech
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to understand the difference between direct and reported speech (e.g., she said, I am going or she said she was going).
Other
Tsl Books: Farm Questions and Statements [Pdf]
Students write two statements and two questions about the farm picture they see. They may color the picture after they have written the sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simple and Compound Sentences | No Nonsense Grammar
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator:...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Sentences
Students will identify what makes a sentence and improve their own sentence construction in this interactive whiteboard lesson activity provided by SMART.
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.1.4 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.1.5 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify the boundaries between separate sentences in reading and writing; write in complete sentences; as well as define the end of a sentence with a period, and the start of a new one...
Education.com
Education.com: L.1.1.j Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] In first grade, students are taught to independently write different types of sentences. These types include declarative (a statement of fact or opinion), interrogative (a question), imperative (a...
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.2.4 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets and lesson plans can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of telling a story or recounting an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive...
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.2.3 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of lesson plans and worksheets aligned to the Common Core standard of asking and answering questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Following Directions
Through this lesson plan, students demonstrate their understanding of the importance of following directions.