Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences
An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Adverb Clauses Cause and Effect Relationships
Twenty sentences where students fill in the blank with the correct adverb clause to show a cause and effect relationship. Each answer can be checked to see if it is correct.
Other
Noodle Tools: Basic Language Literacy: Writing: Paragraph Art
When you create a coherent paragraph, it can be represented by any number of visual images. This page shows examples of how that might work to help writers understand the idea of coherence.
Other
Grinnell College: The Function of Word Order and Parallel Structure
A fairly simple demonstration of the importance of word order in English sentences, with several examples. Also, a brief explanation of parallel structure, with examples. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Other
C.a.s.t.l.e. Technology: Student Page: Compare and Contrast
A lesson plan requiring students to work in groups to create a modern version of a popular nursery rhyme and then compare and contrast the original version with the one they have created.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Cause and Effect Thinking Map
A graphic organizer to help determine cause and effect relationships within a text.
Other
Squarehead Teachers: Adjective Order Worksheet [Pdf]
Use this worksheet to identify the correct order of adjectives in a series.
Other
Sanchezclass.com: Four Types of Writing
Definitions of the four types of writing: narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive.
Quia
Quia: Spanish 1and 2 "Ven Conmigo" Senora Mc Cormack
Choose from thirty-one sequencing activities where students number the events in the correct order.
Quia
Quia: Cause and Effect 2
Five sentences where students are asked to read the effect and then choose the appropriate cause. Answers can be checked after each question and a percentage grade is available at the end of the activity.
Quia
Quia: Why??? What Caused It to Happen?
Read the story of "The Three Little Pigs" and pause five times to answer cause and effect questions about the story and the characters' choices within the story. Students can see their percentage score at the end of the activity.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Cause and Effect Scavenger Hunt
After reading the definitions and examples of cause and effect, 3rd graders complete a cause and effect scavenger hunt through a text to complete a activity.
Other
Shsu: Cause and Effect Ii
This is a 10 question, multiple choice pretest on recognizing cause and effect.
Other
Cyberwriter: Descriptive Writing
Resource gives writing activities leveled K-1st grade, 2nd & 3rd grades and 4th through 8th grades.
abcteach
Abcteach: Picture Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproducible worksheets with colorful pictures that help early readers to practice their comprehension by choosing the correct sentence.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structures
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Ela: Character Traits
Four video clips followed by questions to help students learn to identify character traits in literary texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 1 Paragraphing
A six-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites about writing a paragraph.
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.
Other
Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End
Become a better reader by learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and the end of a story. Discover what clue words will help with the identification.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections
This is a lesson plan to help elementary students connect to nonfiction text as they read.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sequences Before & After
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson asks the students to decide on the sentence order, then drag them into the boxes, deciding whether they describe before or after.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Types of Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the students will identify the difference between a sentence and a fragment. The students will be able to identify the four types of sentences and their correct punctuation.