Word Sort: Can It Stand Alone?
Sort clauses: independent (can stand alone as a sentence) or dependent (cannot stand alone).
Practice complete sentences, subjects and predicates, phrases, clauses, and sentence combining.
Sort clauses: independent (can stand alone as a sentence) or dependent (cannot stand alone).
A short story with sentences that tell who, where, when, and how.
A memory game: match each added part with what it tells: where, when, why, or how.
Look at how a short sentence grew. Does the new part tell what kind, where, when, why, or how?
Choose the sentence that tells where, when, why, or how.
Put scrambled words in order to build simple sentences that make sense.
A short story where you choose and, but, so, or or.
Decide what each joining word shows: adds, contrast, result, or choice.
Choose the joining word: and, but, so, or or. Which one makes sense?
Build compound sentences. The comma comes before the joining word.
Sort sentences: simple (one complete thought) or compound (two thoughts joined with and, but, so, or or).
A memory game: match two sentences that say the same thing with the clauses flipped.
Choose the complex sentence with the comma in the right place, or with no comma when the clause comes second.
Choose the word that starts the dependent clause and makes sense.
Build complex sentences. If the dependent clause comes first, the comma goes after it.
Sort complex sentences: does the dependent clause come first (comma) or second (no comma)?
A short story built from combined sentences.
A memory game: match two short sentences with the one sentence that combines them.
Choose the best way to combine two short sentences into one.
Build the combined sentence from its word tiles.
Sort combined sentences: joined with a joining word (and, but, or, because) or by putting describing words together.
A short story where pronouns stand for people and things.
A memory game: match each sentence with who did the action.
Figure out who a pronoun (he, she, it, they) stands for to reveal a hidden picture.
Practice vowel sounds that glide or have several spellings, such as oi/oy, ou/ow, au/aw, and oo.
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