Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. After a brief introduction to the goals of all eight workshop sessions, middle school teacher and writing expert...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sequence of Events Chart
A printable graphic organizer to help students sequence events and recognize cause and effect relationships within a story. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Item in a Series
This site is concerned with writing any kinds of items in a series. It verbally and graphically illustrates parallel structure, and shows how to punctuate a series.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Transitions Between Ideas
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Narratives: Organization
This slideshow lesson focuses on organizational structures for narratives including a review of narratives and a list of possible organizational structure types: chronological or sequential order, climactic order, in media, and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence length and style; it lists four types of sentences: fragments, short sentences, long sentences, and run-ons. It explains the effect that is achieved by using each of these sentence types for...
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Knowing the Basics of Grammar
This grammar tutorial for college students features help on verb agreement, the use of semicolons, sentence structure, and more.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage
In this comma quiz, students read each of two paragraphs and insert necessary commas. When finished with both paragraphs, they click "Explanations" to see the correct comma placements. Java is required. Links are also provided to "Guide...
Other
Instruct Uwo: Module 6 Sentence Structure and Style
This site discusses several characteristics of writing: coordination, subordination, parallelism, and sentence variety. Each section includes a brief discussion with examples. There are also quizzes and additional links for each section.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and combining sentences to create sentence variety when you revise an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2
Practice evaluating, adding to, and combining sentences in order to create sentence variety.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
Other
Meredith Grammar Review: Clauses & Phrases
This online grammar guide provides instructions and examples on punctuating combinations of phrases and clauses. It also provides interactive exercises throughout the chapter.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Punctuation Patterns
An interactive tutorial that describes and defines basic punctuation patterns in the English language. Includes punctuation of phrase, clauses, and complete sentences.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Punctuation
This is a non-graded punctuation practice in which student read passages with incorrect punction and then type each passage using the correct punctuation.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Criticism
This lesson focuses on how to write a literary criticism, the different theories and approaches to literary criticism, and their standard format.
Other
Exploring English: Colon: Rules for Use
This site provides information regarding four common uses of the colon and its correct usage, along with examples.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas After Introductions
This lesson from Purdue's Online Writing Lab provides a definition of phrase and instructions on how to punctuate different types of introductory phrases. There is also a link to an exercise on this topic.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences
This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.