Creating compound sentences can be confusing for fourth graders to learn, but this lesson can be made easy with interactive exercises and helpful hints found here.

Review simple, compound, and complex sentences with your students to help them succeed as they begin writing reports and essays.

Solidify previous lessons with these exercises that review simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will pick the correct form of a sentence from multiple choices.

Teach your students the difference between closers and multi-clause sentences with these exercises that have them practice their placement of punctuation marks in both cases.

Jumpstart your students' love of introductory clauses with these exercises that not only teach them the correct format, but also show them how their writing can be enhanced!

Help your fourth graders identify transition words with these exercises that test their factual knowledge of the subject and put their skills to use in writing.

Help students connect the dots on the sometimes confusing subject of linking verbs with this exercise.

Give students a helping hand with this exercise that explains and gives examples of helping verbs.

Use this exercise to show students how suffixes can be used to change adjectives and adverbs.

From common phrases to place names, this exercise will show students how to abbreviate with ease.

After this exercise, students will be able to easily use suffixes to change an adjective into a noun.

This exercise will teach students how to use common suffixes to change a verb’s tense.

This exercise provides ground rules for forming plurals, as well as common irregular words students should learn.

By the time students have finished this exercise, changing an adjective into a noun will be a piece of cake.

English is a language full of exceptions to rules, and this exercise will enhance students’ understanding of irregularly spelled words.

Students will understand how to utilize suffixes to modify verb-noun pairs into adjective-adverb pairs with this helpful exercise.

Abbreviating customary and metric units of measure correctly will come naturally to your students after they work through this exercise.

The list goes on, and with so many irregular verbs, this helpful exercise brings a few more to your students’ attention.

After completing the following exercise, students will be able to answer basic questions about an event involving how, when, and where.

Use this exercise to give your struggling student additional practice in recognizing when to capitalize the names of people, places, and things.

Rather than stay confined to a handful of adjectives, students who complete this exercise will have a host of descriptors to choose from.

Have your fourth grader test their knowledge of subjects and predicates with these exercises that ask them to identify whether a sentence is a fragment, and what is missing.

Connecting sentences and ideas is key in essay and report writing, and these exercises will help your fourth grader get ahead of the curve.

Give your fourth grader the knowledge they need to succeed in writing with these exercises that test them on their knowledge of parts of speech and how they fit into sentences.