Lumen Learning
Lumen: Readability: Run on Sentences
This instructional activity focuses on recognizing run-on sentences and demonstrating revision for run-on sentences. It discusses common causes of run-ons and ways to fix them, as well as, a practice activity.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Readability: Sentence Fragments
This instructional activity focuses on recognizing sentence fragments and demonstrating revision for sentence fragments. It discusses common causes of fragments and ways to fix them, as well as, providing practice activity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Choppy Sentences: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses how to recognize and correct sentences that are choppy. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Choppy Sentences."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Clarity: Sentence Beginnings: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over the importance of the first portion of a sentence.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence Addition/deletion Questions
A step-by-step approach to a common question type on the SAT Writing and Language Test: adding or deleting sentences.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Run Ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Global Education Holdings: How to Revise: Eliminating Passive Voice
An eleven-question quiz asking students to identify active and passive voice in sentences. Percentage grades and correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism of Details (English I Writing)
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallelism (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for learners to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences
This lesson explains how to edit a topic sentence to make it more effective.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over how to identify and correct sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Correcting Sentence Fragments."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Standard English Conventions
On the SAT Writing & Language Test, you will encounter questions that will ask you to interact with and revise passages in different ways. Standard English Conventions questions ask you to make sentences consistent with standard...
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on revising Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson
Lesson which allows students to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...