Sentence structure resources

Students write arguments for and against school rules.

Students use the ideas from a brainstorm to write six sentences about caring for pets.

This task assesses student understanding of how the form of a word affects the way it is used, i.e., whether a word is used as a noun or a verb.

Students create simple and compound sentences to go with given photos. The focus is on combining sentences, using simple conjunctions. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Students write a report which gives details about a problem, gives reasons for the problem, and suggests how it might be fixed.

This is a resource on sentence types. Students use four definitions of sentence types to classify six sentences.

Students explain why three sentences are ambiguous and rewrite them to make the meaning clearer.

This task assesses the understanding needed to punctuate direct speech by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech.

A model of combining two short sentences is given. Students create simple then compound sentences to go with some photos, using simple conjunctions to join sentences. A peer sharing task completes the resource.

Using a picture as stimulus, students use nouns and verbs to create well-formed sentences.

Students attempt to persuade the adults in their families that they should be able to have a dog. They construct an argument by writing replies to the adults' statements.

This resource assesses grammar knowledge. Students identify prepositions used in twelve sentences.

Students write four questions about an animal they would like to research.