Classroom Resource

Coordinating Conjunctions

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

3, 4

Overview

In this classroom resource, students will learn about conjunctions. A conjunction is a word that joins two parts of a sentence. There are two kinds of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.21

Identify and interpret various cohesive devices that link words and sentences to one another within the text.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.3.21

Vocabulary

  • Identify
  • Interpret
  • Cohesive devices
  • Link

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Words and sentences can be joined together with certain words, phrases, or references.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify cohesive devices that link together words and sentences within a text, such as pronoun references, word substitution using synonyms, and conjunctions.
  • Interpret cohesive devices to build comprehension at the sentence and paragraph levels.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Cohesive devices, like pronoun references, word substitution, and conjunctions, can link words and sentences together within the larger body of text.
  • To fully comprehend a text, they must understand the meaning of the cohesive devices.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.30

Manipulate words and/or phrases to create compound sentences, including coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, or so, and complex sentences to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.

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UP:ELA21.3.30

Vocabulary

  • Manipulate
  • Phrases
  • Compound sentences
  • Coordinating conjunctions
  • Complex sentences
  • Syntactic awareness
  • Comprehension
  • Sentence level

Knowledge

Students know:
  • A complete compound sentence includes two subjects and two predicates and expresses two complete thoughts.
  • A complete compound sentence must include a coordinating conjunction to link the two complete thoughts.
  • A complex sentence expresses two thoughts, one complete thought and one incomplete thought, that are joined by a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Manipulate words and/or phrases to create compound and complex sentences in their writing.
  • Use coordinating conjunctions to combine two simple sentences into a compound sentence in their writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can improve their reading comprehension and build syntactic awareness by using different types of sentences in their writing.
  • They can join two simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction to form a compound sentence.
  • They can create a complex sentence by using a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun.
  • Writers vary their sentence structure to engage their readers.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.38

Compose complete sentences with correct subject-verb agreement, punctuation, and usage.

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UP:ELA21.4.38

Vocabulary

  • Compose
  • Complete sentences
  • Subject-verb agreement
  • Punctuation

Knowledge

Students know:
  • A complete sentence has at least one subject and one predicate.
  • A subject and its verb must both be singular or both plural.
  • A complete sentence ends with an ending punctuation mark and there are other punctuation marks that may need to be included.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Write complete sentences with correct subject-verb agreement and appropriate punctuation and word usage.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The proper conventions of a complete sentence must be used to convey their intended meaning.
Link to Resource
https://www.turtlediary.com/lesson/coordinating-conjunctions.html

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Resource Provider

Turtle Diary
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