Clearer Combined Steps

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen procedural and informational writing by revising short, choppy directions into smoother, more logical instructions. Through focused sentence-combining practice, students work on clarity, conciseness, sequencing, sentence fluency, and purposeful word choice-key skills for effective how-to writing and technical explanations.

Learning Goals

• Revising for Clarity and Fluency (Grades 4-6) – Combine short directions into clear, well-structured instructional sentences.
• Combining Steps into Clear Instructions – Merge related actions to improve readability and ease of use.
• Eliminating Redundancy – Identify and remove unnecessary repetition in procedural writing.
• Logical Instruction Order – Analyze which actions belong together and how steps should flow.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to target real instructional writing challenges.
• Skill-Focused Practice – Emphasizes sentence structure and clarity rather than content generation.
• Flexible Use – Works well for mini-lessons, writing centers, independent practice, or intervention groups.
• Supports Editing Skills – Encourages students to revise with intention and audience awareness.

This printable worksheet helps students understand that effective instructions are clear, concise, and smoothly written. By combining choppy steps into logical, fluent directions, learners build confidence in procedural writing, sentence fluency, and informational text revision. It is a practical, no-prep resource for both classroom and homeschool settings that strengthens clarity and usability in real-world writing tasks.

This worksheet is part of our How To Process Writing Worksheets collection.