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 links to exercises.
Great site! Offers student tons of confusables! Also offers quizzes and a pull-down menu for one "confusable" at a time. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2, L.11-12.2b Spelling, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
"Avoid problems created by these words or phrases." Examples: And also, As to Whether, and lots more.
A good explanation of Plural Forms for the student. Site also offers a quiz at the end. L.11-12.2b Spelling
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Not only does this site from Capital College Community Foundation give you a fine explanation of writing purpose and how to identify yours, it also provides good examples of how to develop that purpose in a piece of writing. W.9-10.4 Write/Aud/purp, W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing
Lists five "deadly sins" to purge from your writing. If you're not sure how to correct these errors, just click on the list item to link to more information.
This site examines all aspects of the rewriting process. Includes advice on how to use computers during the process, comments on peer editing, links to related topics, and an editing checklist.
Explains what each paragraph of the five-paragraph essay, should do. Then gives a side-by-side analysis of a sample essay, pointing out aspects of the introduction and thesis statement, the paragraph-by-paragraph development, and the conclusion.
This tutorial provides rules, explanations, and examples for noun phrases, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, absolute phrases, gerund phrases, participial phrases, and infinitive phrases. Also includes an interactive quiz. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
Interactive writing exercises. Click on "The sentence, please!" and a sentence will appear in the top text-area.Correct the sentence as needed by adding, removing, or moving the colon and rewriting as needed. Then click on "Grammar's Version" for the answer key.
This resource is a grammar primer page that focuses on verbs and verbals. It provides information and practice for verb tenses, verb forms, active and passive voice, and much more. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes, L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
Students use the method of their choice to combine two sentences based on a song by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Students practice using various types of phrases and clauses to convey meaning and add variety to combined sentences.
Students correct a variety errors within a text. The errors are underlined.
Students practice forming contractions by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined words to a contraction.
Students correct a variety errors within a text. The errors are underlined.
Students add spaces after quotation marks throughout a text.