Students will improve their writing skills by studying these videos, the slide presentation and/ or printed exercise sheet on the importance of sentence structure. A number of videos are available under the "Free Video" section. Students will learn that writers might need to repair sentence fragments, or else combine choppy statements into compound sentences in order to improve sentence structures.

Concept Sorts can be used before reading to gather students’ prior knowledge about the upcoming content, or can be used after reading to assess students’ understanding of the concepts that were presented to them. Have students brainstorm a list of words from reading material or an upcoming unit, lesson, or text (sometimes the word list may need to be provided by the teacher). Students then discuss each word and place it in its correct category; categories can either be defined by the teacher or students.

Students will read examples of how to change sentence openers. Students will then read sentences and write them in order to change the sentence openers. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read examples of how to vary dialogue. Students will then read sentences and write them in order to change the use of dialogue. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Four to five person teams will research and present an in-depth TV news special about the Holocaust for the Passover Sedar holiday. Students will conduct research and assume a specific task of their news team to present a main story in a newscast/Podcast.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.

In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.

In this lesson, students use adjectives to write descriptions of food items to create a restaurant menu.

What should a good narrative contain? For this lesson, a mystery, a type of narrative realistic fiction, will be composed. Since strong adjectives and adverbs will support a mystery, they will be incorporated into the writing.

In this lesson, students revise a document replacing the overused verb "said" with more elevated word choices.

Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade English Language Arts. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade ELA.

In this lesson, students will work on writing the final copy of their newspaper articles, focusing on sentence structure and appropriate transitions to improve the flow of their writing.

A collection of worksheets for various student levels in combining and varying sentence patterns in writing.

A lesson on the differing types of sentence structures including simple, compound, complex, dependent and independent clauses.

Lessons, Powerpoints, activities and games on the differing types of sentence structures including simple, compound, complex, dependent and independent clauses.

This resource contains lessons, Powerpoints, activities and more on the differing types of sentence structures including simple, compound, complex, dependent and independent clauses.