Compound sentences activities

Teaching sentences will be a big part of your language instruction! From simple to complex, sentences are woven into a large part of your language curriculum. Successful understanding of sentence structure and development will improve your students' reading, writing, and language skills. So, teaching sentences is a great place to start!

I am focusing on some critical grammar skills. One of them is types of sentences and using coordinating conjunctions

PRIMARY GRAMMAR: UNIT 8 Is it really necessary to teach primary students grammar? Without a doubt, my answer is YES . Teaching young children the way our language works is incredibly important. This will help them be better readers and better writers, because they understand the basic fo

This resource teaches kids how to produce and expand simple sentences into compound ones with a fun winter theme. This grammar activity is so much fun. You will get a compound sentence anchor chart, snowman craft and winter themed task cards for write the room. This literacy activity is great for literacy centers. Use this language arts resource for guided reading groups, readers workshop or just as a fun winter craft.

As a child, grammar baffled me. I could never remember all the rules. I remember tuning out whenever conjunctions, dangling participles, or any other grammar terminology surfaced. This grammar deficiency made it very difficult to teach grammar. I had a grammar phobia... It took me awhile to get in my grammar groove. I basically had to rethink and reteach MYSELF all of the grammar rules that I had tuned out as a child. This included conjunctions. A conjunction is a word that is used to…

Silly Sentence Puzzles: Students choose subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to create compound sentences. Then, students edit for capitalization and punctuation

Compound sentences can be a tricky grammar concept to master, but with the help of our free grammar worksheets, understanding and constructing compound sentences has never been easier. Whether you are a student looking for extra practice or a teacher searching for engaging resources for your classroom, our compound sentence worksheets provide the perfect entity to improve your grammar skills.

A blog full of tips, lessons, and ideas to use in the upper elementary classroom.

Work on Compound Sentences with this hands on activity. Students pick the two sentence cards with the same number. They read the two…

To my surprise, we actually had fun writing, expanding and rearranging simple and compound sentences this week. The factor that made it fun was that I told my second graders we were going to write like THIRD GRADERS. Since they're in second grade, anything third grade is super cool. Our first activity was creating this flip book: Under the first flap, we wrote the requirements of any sentence. Then under each grade's flap, we wrote an example of a sentence from that grade level. What we…