Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Mark’s Text Terminal offers you the sixth lesson plan, from the Introduction to Writing Sentences unit, as the Weekly Text for 17 July 2026, this one on writing the declarative sentence. This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the intransitive verb. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and three comprehension questions.

And here is the scaffolded worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.

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How’s your summer starting out? I’m retiring on 1 August. Enough said.

In the meantime, here is fourth lesson plan of the Introduction to Writing Sentences Unit, this one on writing the simple sentence. This lesson opens, in a rare feat of alignment at Mark’s Text Terminal, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the simple sentence; this is half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. A solid introduction to this sentence structure, with students called upon to write a simple sentence of their own using a mentor text as a model.

And here is the scaffolded worksheet that is the centerpiece of this lesson; it asks students to try their own hands at composing simple sentences as a process for developing their own understanding of this form.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.