Dive into Your Dependent and Independent Clause Lessons!

Looking for helpful teaching materials on sentence structure? You’re in the right place! This resource has everything you need to help your students understand dependent and independent clauses. Inside, you’ll a series of printable dependent and independent clause worksheets featuring simple explanations, examples, and plenty of practice activities to make planning your grammar lessons quick and easy. Our goal is to give you the tools to create engaging lessons and help your students become better writers, starting with this printable resource pack!

Dependent and Independent Clause Worksheet Pack

This worksheet pack includes:

• Cut and paste worksheet – match the independent and dependent clauses together.
• Search for independent and dependent clauses in a paragraph.
• Search for sentences that contain independent and dependent clauses in books.
• Add a dependent clause to the independent clause linked by a coordinating junction.

Download and Print!

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides or Printable PDF Resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select the file format you prefer. Make your copies, pass them out to your students, and you’re ready to begin!

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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