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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will use labeling to decide what changes are necessary to guarantee sentence variety in your writing. Practice exercises are provided.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on variety in sentence openers; it includes a slideshow about adding variety in sentence fluency and length, and why and how to add variety to sentence openers with examples. It also offers an audio clip with...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on adding variety to your writing with sentence openers. A PowerPoint presentation explains sentence openers and gives examples of ways to create interesting sentences, such as beginning with a prepositional phrase,...
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Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Length and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 6

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Transformations Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
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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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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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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After students are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
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Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Length and Style

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...
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Activity
Other

Troubleshooting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents in chart form a list of common sentence problems with possible solutions offered. A couple additional links are provided for further information.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Choppy Sentences: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson discusses how to recognize and correct sentences that are choppy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Choppy Sentences."
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Varying=smooth Reading

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts about varying sentences to improve fluency.

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