Description
This sentence types and sentence structure lesson teaches students how to identify and analyze the four types of sentences used in writing: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Designed for middle school and high school ELA classrooms, this resource builds essential skills in grammar, syntax, and sentence variety.
Through a clear PowerPoint lesson, students learn what a clause is and how clauses function within sentences. Instruction focuses on helping students distinguish between independent clauses and dependent clauses, a foundational skill for understanding sentence structure and improving writing clarity. Students also learn the difference between coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions, and how each affects sentence formation.
After direct instruction, students apply their understanding by identifying sentence types using multiple examples. This guided practice helps reinforce how clauses and conjunctions work together to create meaning and structure within sentences.
The resource also includes a grammar practice worksheet with an answer key. On the worksheet, students identify simple subjects and verbs, locate coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, determine whether clauses are independent or dependent, and classify sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. This practice strengthens both analytical and writing skills.
This sentence structure grammar lesson is ideal for grammar units, writing instruction, syntax review, test preparation, or skill-based ELA practice.