Minding the Middle

Task cards are an amazing teaching tool that is great for reinforcing skills learned in the classroom. These task cards target a specific skill: Compound Sentences using Commas and Coordinating Conjunctions! Use these 40 multiple-choice task cards to help your students practice locating, deconstructing, revising, editing, and creating compound sentences. These task cards use "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan as the mentor text. Each card exposes students to unique sentences found in the

** Updated 12/09/14 ** Are you looking for an intensive grammar study? Check out this compound sentences package! This compound sentences package is filled with many different hands-on activities for students to practice identifying, deconstructing, and imitating compound sentences that use commas and coordinating conjunctions. Using mentor text from popular short stories and poems, students will construct and deconstruct sentences so that they will have a clear understanding of the struct

Product Details: This resource contains five STAAR-formatted expository essay prompts. The resource also contains blank pages for prewriting and lined paper for final essay responses. The writing prompts are newly created to give teachers and students an expanded variety of prompts. This resource is intended to be used for timed writing samples. These timed writing prompts are designed to be an authentic formative writing assessment that will help guide your instruction. Please keep in m

Got Game? The Revising Game presents students with another opportunity to practice revising independent clauses (simple sentences). It requires students to revise independent clauses into the more difficult sentence varieties. This game supports the following skills: Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Compound-Complex Sentences Coordinating Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions Commas The Revising Game is a great culminating activity for an intensive sentence structure/sentence variet

Product Details: This product is for use when scoring timed writing essays for students. The rubric is designed for quick scoring with short feedback, not for in-depth scoring. The rubric contains the four components of STAAR expository writing (based on the newly adopted ELAR TEKS): organizational structure & focus, context & development of ideas, use of language, and conventions. Permission is granted to make multiple copies for use in a single classroom. Store Link: https://www.teacher

** Updated 12/09/14 ** Compound Sentences Part I is a visual, hands-on grammar activity that includes a bonus homework assignment. This sample contains a foldable and mentor compound sentences from popular short stories. If you enjoy using this free sampler, visit our store at: Minding the Middle The product download contains a two-page instruction sheet. Please see the instruction sheet for explicit details on how to use this sample. The full version of this product contains so much m