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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
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Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
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Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
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Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Types of Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is "Logic"? What is a "Mathematical sentence"? This website provides definitions of both of these terms and defines examples of mathematical sentences ("open sentence" and "closed sentence") and provides examples of each. Use the...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An exercise with ten compound sentences. Students are asked to type the commas where they belongs in compound sentences with a coordinating conjunctions. Then students can check their answers to see how they did.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this instructional activity, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Run on Sentences Practice Exercise

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
An exercise with ten run-on sentences where students are asked to choose which re-written sentence is correct. A percentage score is given at the end of the exercise.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Combining Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains opportunities to combine sentences focusing on subjects and predicates.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Math Rounding Fractions

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An interactive exercise where students read two sentences and then choose the conjunction that would best join them together. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and score is kept throughout the exercise.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of...
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College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Conjunctions (2)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Complete each sentence by typing the conjunction in the box to show the correct relationship between the independent clauses in the sentence. Hints are available if needed, and answers can be checked after each sentence.
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
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Handout
Other

Comma Rules

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten detailed comma rules are found on this page.
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Unit Plan
Other

Grammaropolis: The Nouns

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a lesson in nouns including defining nouns, common, proper, concrete, abstract, compound, and collective nouns. It defines each type, shows its use in a sentence, and provides examples.

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