Sentence Combining and Decombining
Students will focus on stylistic choices and sentence fluency by combining, decombining, and recombining sentences in professional writing, peer writing, and their own writing.

Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans Sentence fragments and run-on sentence lesson plans geared toward GED students, yet appropriate for all students
 

Sentence Fragments  Lesson and activity for avoiding sentence fragments

Avoiding Comma Splices  Interactive activity

Comma Splices and Run-ons  Comma splices and run-on rules

Language Network Chapter Quiz  Chapter quiz on sentence fragments and run-on sentences that can be taken online or printed for classroom use

Run-on PowerPoint PowerPoint presentation using run-on sentences

Run-ons, comma splices and Fused Splices Lesson  with activity on how to punctuate compound sentences properly.

Conquering the Comma  This PowerPoint presentation, from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL), is part of a large collection of presentations designed to assist students with a variety of writing topics. This presentation introduces students to the rules of comma.

Suggestions for English Language Learners

ESL Ideas            (B=Beginning; I=Intermediate; T=Transitional)
(B, I) Students use “Build a Sentence” activity to create simple sentences. The Build a Sentence activity provides word and picture cards (where appropriate) on color-coded index cards with directions on how to manipulate cards to build sentences.
(I, T) Students work in small groups to create sentences and paragraphs.
(I, T) Students use pre-written word cards to create sentences and pre-written sentence strips to create a paragraph.
 

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