Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- A complete simple sentence includes a subject and a predicate and expresses a complete thought.
- 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.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Manipulate words and/or phrases to create simple and compound 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.
- Writers vary their sentence structure to engage their readers.
Vocabulary
- Manipulate
- Phrases
- Simple sentences
- Compound sentences
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Syntactic awareness
- Sentence level
