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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Skillwise: English: Sentence Variety Grammar Games

For Students K - 1st Standards
Designed to help students practice the elements of sentence design, these games provide different levels of difficulty for users of all ages. The sentence variety games include: Is This a Compound Sentence, Logging Sentences, Make a...
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Handout
English Plus+

English Plus: Commas in Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial provides rules for the comma to separate independent clauses in a compound sentence.
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Unit Plan
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
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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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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.
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Unit Plan
Get It Write

Get It Write: Using the Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Clear lesson on when to use (and when not to use) a semicolon. The article ends with a self-test and answers. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a semicolon.
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Website
Other

New Vista High School: Guideline for Combining Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
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Quia

Quia: Sentence Structure

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A twenty-four-question, interactive quiz asking students to answer questions about and to identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. When finished, students can submit answers to see the correct answers as well as their percentage...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Repairing Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An exercise with ten sentences to help students identify and correct run-on sentences. Students read the sentence and then click on the answer choice that corrects any errors in the sentence. After making their choice, students can see...
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Handout
English Club

English Club: Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial discusses the importance of using sentence variety in the context of paragraphs. The tutorial provides information about sentence types, sentence patterns, and sentence lengths.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Tu3083 Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing sentence structures. This blendspace includes three video lessons, posters, and interactive practice activities.
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Handout
The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Comma Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module, students will learn more about commas. A PowerPoint lesson and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support all students via hands-on approaches.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Sentence Types

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Lessons and materials to teach simple, compound, and complex sentences to middle school students.
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Types and Comma Rules

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.
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Handout
TES Global

Tes: Sentences: Simple, Compound and Complex

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable reference provides notes and examples of different types of sentences. Simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences are discussed on the resource pages.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Semicolon With Conjunctive Adverbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using semicolons with conjunctive adverbs in a compound sentence.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comma Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, and a video introducing commas, their purpose, and common usage mistakes. Comma rules and examples concerning coordinating clauses, items in a list, introductory elements, and nouns of direct address are...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...