Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- Manipulate
- Phrases
- Compound sentences
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Complex sentences
- Syntactic awareness
- Comprehension
- Sentence level
