ELA21.7.21b

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 7

ELA21.7.21b

Construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to represent relationships among ideas.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • Strategies to write simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences to express relationships between ideas in writing.

Skills

  • Construct various types of sentences to represent the relationships among ideas, including simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences.

Understanding

  • Using different sentence types in their writing can show relationships among ideas.
  • Different sentence types have different impacts on the overall meaning and organization of writing.

Vocabulary

  • Simple sentences
  • Compound sentences
  • Complex sentences
  • Compound-complex sentences
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