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TEKS ELA Standard: 2.11.D.i

complete sentences with subject-verb agreement

Writing Compound Sentences

Writing Compound Sentences

Students work with subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to write compound sentences.

Emoji Stories 🦁

Emoji Stories 🦁

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Parts of Speech Party – Care

Parts of Speech Party – Care

How many different ways can we use the word “care”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party – Fruit

Parts of Speech Party – Fruit

How many different ways can we use the word “fruit”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Fixing Shakespearean Run-Ons

Fixing Shakespearean Run-Ons

Can your students help The Bard? We’ll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.

12 Phrases: The Zoo

12 Phrases: The Zoo

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at the zoo.

What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting

What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting

Two columns of sentences. Something is different about them. Can you figure out the rule?

Simple or Compound Sentences – What’s In My Brain?

Simple or Compound Sentences – What’s In My Brain?

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum

What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum

We’re looking at the past progressive tense and the simple past tense.

Passive to Active Voice

Passive to Active Voice

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.

Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3

Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3

Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.