There are ten warm-ups for your students in this packet that was created by an English teacher and grammar expert. Each exercise is designed to take students from five to seven minutes, the time that is usually spent on a bellringer or activator. However, you can also use these short exercises during a Daily 5, Station Rotation, or work on them together as a whole class. A teacher’s answer key is included, and the warm-ups cover the following topics:
Independent and dependent clauses
Simple, compound, and complex sentences
Relative pronouns
Commas with compound and complex sentences
Appositive and appositive phrases
Modifiers
Semicolons
Complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Commas for direct address
Correct all the errors
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