SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines compound sentences and discusses conjunctions and punctuation to combine the sentences. It provides many examples utilizing color-coding to help define each of the sentence parts.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Combining Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains opportunities to combine sentences focusing on subjects and predicates.
Quia
Quia: Math Rounding Fractions
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
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...