Word Sort: Can It Stand Alone?
Sort clauses: independent (can stand alone as a sentence) or dependent (cannot stand alone).
Sentence Structure Games & Activities
Practice complete sentences, subjects and predicates, phrases, clauses, and sentence combining.
Sentence Structure games
Fill the Story: Growing Sentences
A short story with sentences that tell who, where, when, and how.
Match & Remember: What It Tells
A memory game: match each added part with what it tells: where, when, why, or how.
Mystery Reveal: What Did We Add?
Look at how a short sentence grew. Does the new part tell what kind, where, when, why, or how?
Reading Race: Which Sentence Tells?
Choose the sentence that tells where, when, why, or how.
Sentence Scramble: Simple Sentences
Put scrambled words in order to build simple sentences that make sense.
Fill the Story: Joining Words
A short story where you choose and, but, so, or or.
Mystery Reveal: What Does the Joining Word Show?
Decide what each joining word shows: adds, contrast, result, or choice.
Reading Race: Choose the Joining Word
Choose the joining word: and, but, so, or or. Which one makes sense?
Sentence Scramble: Compound Sentences
Build compound sentences. The comma comes before the joining word.
Word Sort: Simple or Compound?
Sort sentences: simple (one complete thought) or compound (two thoughts joined with and, but, so, or or).
Match & Remember: Flip the Clauses
A memory game: match two sentences that say the same thing with the clauses flipped.
Mystery Reveal: Where Does the Comma Go?
Choose the complex sentence with the comma in the right place, or with no comma when the clause comes second.
Reading Race: because, when, if, or although?
Choose the word that starts the dependent clause and makes sense.
Sentence Scramble: Complex Sentences
Build complex sentences. If the dependent clause comes first, the comma goes after it.
Word Sort: Comma or No Comma?
Sort complex sentences: does the dependent clause come first (comma) or second (no comma)?
Fill the Story: Combining Sentences
A short story built from combined sentences.
Match & Remember: Two into One
A memory game: match two short sentences with the one sentence that combines them.
Mystery Reveal: Best Combined Sentence
Choose the best way to combine two short sentences into one.
Sentence Scramble: Combined Sentences
Build the combined sentence from its word tiles.
Word Sort: How Were They Joined?
Sort combined sentences: joined with a joining word (and, but, or, because) or by putting describing words together.
Fill the Story: Pronouns
A short story where pronouns stand for people and things.
Match & Remember: Who Did It?
A memory game: match each sentence with who did the action.
Mystery Reveal: Who Is It?
Figure out who a pronoun (he, she, it, they) stands for to reveal a hidden picture.
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Diphthongs & Complex Vowels
Practice vowel sounds that glide or have several spellings, such as oi/oy, ou/ow, au/aw, and oo.
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