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Sentence Structure and Syntax Lab
Students sort sentences, diagnose fragments and run-ons, combine sentences from tiles and repair sentence errors.
Grades 4–12Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline
Try it free: the demo opens the Start page and Station 1 right in your browser. No sign-up needed.
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Grade versions included
- Grades 4–5: Four kinds of sentences, fragments and run-ons, joining words, simple vs. compound vs. complex
- Grades 6–8: Independent and dependent clauses, comma splices, sentence combining, misplaced modifiers
- Grades 9–12: Clause functions, phrase types, parallelism, periodic and cumulative sentences
What students practice
Sentence types, simple, compound and complex sentences, clauses and phrases, fragments, run-ons and comma splices, sentence combining, modifiers, parallel structure
Standards
OAS Standard 5: Language
Common Core: L.1 · L.3
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How it works
- Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
- The download has a separate file for each grade band. Open the one that fits your class.
- Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
- Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
- Each purchase includes the lab files and a one-page Quick Start guide.
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