This website offers a minilesson and practice in making compound sentences, using conjunctions and commas.

This online tutorial gives students a more in-depth look at what makes comparing and contrasting valid in non-fiction texts.

This interactive practice allows students to practice their comparing and contrasting skills with interactive elements.

This tutorial walks students through the various parts and types of sentences, including clauses, compounds, complexes, etc.

This fun, engaging interactive allows students to use various parts of sentences to work their way through a prison quest called "Trapped".

This song by "Grammaropolis" teaches students how to use the FANBOYS coordinating conjunctions in sentences.

This song by "Grammarheads" discusses how to use commas in a variety of sentence situations.

This song by "Grammarheads" discusses how to avoid fragments by including subjects and predicates in every sentence.

This rap by "Flocabulary" discusses the FANBOYS coordinating conjunctions, and shows how they help in combining sentences and clauses.

This in-depth tutorial gives more detail about how to make inferences based on evidence and details in a text.

This fun video uses a cartoon bank robbery to show an example of making inferences.

This video teaches the basics of inferences, textual evidence, and how to use inferencing as a reading strategy.

This tutorial focuses on comparing and contrasting as a text structure of non-fiction essays.

This video clip teaches students about comparing and contrasting non-fiction texts from different authors.

This YouTube clip teaches students the basics of independent and dependent clauses, which are the building blocks of complex and compounds sentences.

This tutorial teaches students the basics of creating simple, compound, and complex sentences

This catchy YouTube song clip shows students how to make compound sentences by using commas and conjunctions.

In this interactive tutorial, practice identifying the central (main) idea of short passages.

In this quiz game, read short passages and identify the central idea of each passage.

In this learning module, practice looking at context clues to determine inferences and the central (main) idea of sentences and passages.