Compound Sentences

This week my 4th grade students have been creating and editing compound sentences.  This is something they have worked on extensively in their classes, so I just wanted to do a small focus during my time with them.  Now that we have the ball rollin’ I wanted to share some ideas with you!  These are definitely things you can do in any grade level.

We created a FANBOYS anchor chart to review the conjunctions that we can use in compound sentences.  Students worked with a partner to write a sentence using the FANBOY.  Then, we traded sentences to edit.  Students shared their sentences and added them to the chart.  As a group we identified all of the parts of the compound sentence.

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{FANBOYS chart can be found HERE}

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You’ll also notice the other Compound Sentence chart we created.  In their class they say a short chant that goes like this:  “Complete on the left.  Complete on the right.  Comma and a FANBOY make it right!”  So, I wanted to add that to my space as well since they are constantly saying it to themselves 🙂

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After creating our chart, writing our sentences, and editing, we had fun with sentence puzzles!  Students worked with a partner to combine subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to create a compound sentence.

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{Sentence Puzzles can be found HERE}

Students put their sentences together and then edited to make sure the capitalization and punctuation were correct.  They absolutely LOVED this.  I also had students rotate to edit each other’s sentences.  So, they would create a sentence, check it, switch, and then edit!

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Another thing we’ve been loving are these Editing cards from Texas Teaching Fanatic.  We use them each day as a warm-up to review several different editing skills.

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{Editing Cards from Texas Teaching Fanatic HERE}

I TRULY love working with my 4th and 5th grade small groups each day.  I can’t wait to share more of what we are doing 🙂  I’m learning how to adapt and adjust the resources that I’ve always used so that I can still incorporate my favorites with my big kids!  So far, so good!

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