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English in Mind Unit 16: Grammar Practice
In this grammar worksheet, learners write sentences from given words, determine the comparative forms of adjectives, and practice adjectives endings. Thirty two fill in the blank and short answer questions are asked.
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Writing Concise Sentences
Use this online English skills worksheet on a computer lab day in your language arts class. Young writers respond to twelve questions that require them to write more concise sentences. They may check suggested answers.
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Combining and Rewriting Sentences
Learners practice combining sentences using the conjunction handout provided. They search magazines and newspapers to identify combined sentences that use conjunctions. Finally, these are rewritten again as two separate sentences.
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Who? What? Why? - Using Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns are an important part of learning the interrogative sentence form. Middle schoolers learn about using interrogative pronouns in sentence writing, and use what they read to answer the nineteen questions on the...
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A Simple Task Made Complex: Types of Sentences
Looking for a lesson about differing sentence types? Use this lesson on compound and complex sentences in your grammar unit. After composing simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences individually and as part of a group,...
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Identifying Different Kinds of Sentences - The Peacock's Feathers
Identify sentence types within a short paragraph and complete a sentence transformation worksheet. Learners review sentence types and study a sentence identification chart. They watch a video about peacocks and identify sentence examples...
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Reported Requests and Orders
A lot of practice in writing exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative sentences is here. Writers change twenty direct speech sentences into reported speech. They create their own sentences in reported speech.
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Ordering Sentences: Literacy
Use this resource as a creative way to have your class practice sentence structure. Learners take a sentence that has been scrambled into a nonsensical communication, and reorder the words. The process requires thought and ingenuity. It...
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Starters for 10
This presentation gives young writers ways to start sentences in interesting ways. They can use an adverb, an -ing clause, a simile, a connective, or a preposition. Learners make up sentences on the spot using each of these techniques.
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The Horrible House of Horrors
Young writers get to pair up and construct sentences that have specific elements. Each sentence needs to have two adjectives and one verb that both start with the letter "c." Then, they try again using the letter "d" as the starting...
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Extending a Simple Sentence
Here is a very nice presentation which shows students how to extend their sentences by incorporating adverbs and adjectives. After viewing what these words are and how they are used, pupils practice extending some sentences embedded in...
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Writing Sentences
Challenge your second graders to use their writing and list-making skills with this straightforward worksheet. Given five sets of three items each (duck, dog, and hen, for example), young writers compose sentences that include lists of...
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High Frequency Phrases
Review a series of high frequency phrases using this presentation. Examples of phrases are, read a book, good things, and help me out. This resource could be used in an ESL classroom.
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Sentence Structure
Third graders write sentences. In this sentence structure instructional activity, 3rd graders read Punctuation Takes A Vacation and discuss the differences between this book and others. Students learn about the four types of sentences...
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Sentence Order Worksheet
In this sentence order interactive worksheet, students arrange the words of each sentence in proper order. There are five sentence scrambles to complete.
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Wild Animals
In this wild animals worksheet, learners name the animals, make sentences, ask and answer questions, and more about wild animals. Students complete 5 activities.
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Need: What do they need?
In this making inferences worksheet, learners make inferences and write sentences about what people need based on their picture. Students complete 4 sentences.
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Printing: These
In this printing worksheet, students practice writing the word "these" into sentences containing questions and answers. Students write 6 sentences.
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What do you usually do?
For this "usually" worksheet, students write sentences that answer questions about what they usually do at certain times of the day. Students write 10 sentences.
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Get The Swing Of It
For this identifying -ing words and using them in sentences learning exercise, students identify each picture and use each word to create a sentence. Students write 10 answers.
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
In this sentence fragment exercise, learners are given paragraphs to proofread for sentence fragments. Students are given space to make revisions.
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Subject and Verb Agreement
In this subject and verb agreement worksheet, students are given sentences in which they must choose the correct verb form to agree with the subject.
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Quotation Marks Exercise
In this quotation marks worksheet, learners must edit sentences for quotation marks and underline words that should be italicized.