Posters for Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences?

As a teacher, you’ve probably noticed your students struggling to write using a variety of sentence types. Very often, you’ll see students who write entire essays using basic, simple sentences and we all know that variety is what makes writing really shine!

This year, you have a powerful tool at your disposal with Teach Starter’s printable anchor charts to teach simple, compound and complex sentences. By incorporating these printable English resources into your lessons, you can provide clear explanations and examples that help your students grasp and write using varying sentence structures.

What’s Included in This Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence Poster Pack?

This printable resource pack includes a variety of printable posters/anchor charts to use as a classroom display or as a printable reference tool for student use. We have included the following options in your resource download:

• Sentence Types Poster
• Simple Sentences Poster
• Compound Sentences Poster
• Complex Sentences Poster

This resource downloads as a full-colour or black-and-white PDF, or a full-colour and black-and-white editable Google Slides file.

Download and Print These Types of Sentences Posters

Click the Download button and select your preferred version of this poster set.

If you intended to display the posters in your classroom, we recommend increasing the size for enhanced readability.

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

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