This slide deck comes with a Cornell notes template you can print off for your students. They can add notes as you teach them about dependent and independent clauses and the four types of sentence structure.

I teach the first four slides one day, then follow it with practice activities. I then teach each of the sentence structures separately, providing plenty of practice for each.

Included:

• What is a clause?
• Dependent & Independent Clauses
• Simple Sentences
• Compound Sentences
• Three ways to punctuate compound sentences: comma and coordinating conjunction, semicolon, and semicolon and conjunctive adverb
• Complex Sentences
• How to punctuate dependent clauses in complex sentences
• Compound-Complex Sentences