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At a Glance:
| Grades: | 4, 5, 6 |
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| Subject: | ELA (English Language Arts); ESL/ELL (English Language Learning) |
| Topic: | Conjunctions |
| Lesson Length: | 30 - 45 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will practice using conjunctions to combine sentences.
What should students know before this activity?
This lesson is intended to reinforce the idea of using conjunctions to combine sentences. Use this activity as practice, or an informal assessment tool.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- Read and discuss the sample comic. Focus on how the sentences have been combined to create one sentence by including a conjunction.
- Explain that the most common conjunctions are and, but, and so.
What will students do?
- Instruct students to combine the sentences below by using the conjunction and, but, or so. Remind students that when we are combining two complete sentences, we need to place a comma before the conjunction.
- The rain is very heavy, so the game will be canceled today.
- Emma has one sister and she has three cousins.
- I do not like pasta but I do like pizza.
- Have students create a "Conjunction Comic" to demonstrate their conjunction skills on sentences they’ve created on their own.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- Go over student answers as a class.
- Have students present their comics to the class or to a partner.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Print out the sample comic and have students highlight the conjunctions they used.
- Differentiate the conjunctions used based on need and classroom focus. For example, advanced students can be introduced to subordinating conjunctions such as: after, as, therefore, whenever, until, since.
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