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Spelling sentences
First graders write sentences based on their spelling words that appear on their word walls. In this writing lesson plan, 1st graders create sentences that include their spelling words. They do this on the computer. Then they pick out...
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Revising Ordinary Sentences into Strong Leads Using "Crispin: The Cross of Lead"
Students create stories using powerful introductory sentences by creating something other than "Once upon a time...". In this sentences lesson plan, students read The Cross of Lead to base their introductory sentences on.
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Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
In these comma splices and fused sentences worksheets, students read the sentences and the three underlined parts. Students then find and fix either the comma splice or fused sentence.
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Simple and compound sentences
In this simple and compound sentences worksheet, students decide whether sentences are simple or compound sentences. Students also identify homophones, and plurals in sentences.
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Dolch Number Booklet
Students create a sight word booklet for number words, "one" through "ten." In this sight word instructional activity, students write and read number vocabulary. Students write Dolch word sentences to create a booklet.
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Advanced Sentence Completion: 15
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences with one word. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Sentence Completion
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose words from a word bank to correctly complete sentences. There are five sentences to finish.
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Advanced Sentence Completion 13
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence from five possible choices.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion: 21
In this sentence completion worksheet, 4th graders fill in the blanks with 2 words for each sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Adjectives: Sentence Drop
In this adjectives worksheet, students connect the beginning words by dropping down one line. Students find adjectives to complete each sentence.
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Develop a Paragraph
Need a recipe for a paragraph? Young writers cook up the opening paragraph for a speech on food preparation. They prepare by reading the directions and cutting out the provided sentence strips. Then, they mix up the strips and paste the...
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Get Rid of "And"
Run-on sentences using and are all too common in our youngsters' writing. Have them read these different paragraphs to determine where they can remove some of the ands. Consider doing this activity as a whole class on the overhead or...
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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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Punctuation Exercise
Are you looking for a way to practice tricky punctuation? Use this worksheet as a homework assignment or warm-up activity. Young grammarians are given 20 sentences to punctuate using semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, or...
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Idiomatic Expressions
For this idiomatic expressions worksheet, students write sentences with the given idiomatic expressions and fill in the blank to sentences with expressions from a word bank. Students complete 17 sentences total.
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By or Until
Read fifteen sentences and choose which preposition, by or until, completes each sentence. Answer sheet is provided.
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Summarizing: James and the Giant Peach
Text marking and a T-chart format to distinguish important information from trivia help elementary readers summarize effectively. Encouraging readers to construct a chapter summary from paragraph-level topic sentences is another sound...
Grammar Net
So v. Such
When should you use such and when should you use so? Kids look through 20 sentences and fill in the blanks with so, such, such a, or such an.
K12 Reader
Adventures with Alliteration! - Adjectives
Have hearty humor with a handy, helpful handout! Kids work on their alliteration skills with a figurative language activity that focuses on alliterative adjectives and phrases. After kids add nouns to ten adjectives, they create five...
Illustrative Mathematics
How Many Cells Are in the Human Body?
Investigating the large numbers of science is the task in a simple but deep activity. Given a one-sentence problem set-up and some basic assumptions, the class sets off on an open-ended investigation that really gives some context to all...
K5 Learning
Treasure Hunt
After reading about a book that leads two friends on a treasure hunt, class members respond to four short answer reading comprehension questions. Skills include describing the characters, retelling the story in their own words, writing...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Finding the Positive
To instill the importance of a positive classroom community small groups create a collage out of magazine clippings that highlight three characteristics of self-awareness. Written examples accompany the finished product. Groups turn in...
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English Exercises: Open Cloze: Why Dogs Bark
In this language arts worksheet, students complete an online interactive exercise in which missing words are filled in to make a text complete. Students read the text about why dogs bark and fill in a word of their choosing in each of...
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My Three Wishes
Pupils write/type a three wish paragraph into Microsoft Word. They include specific items and ideas, that are listed in this lesson plan, in their paragraph. They participate in printing their paragraphs and sharing them with the class.