CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1f
The Standard
Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write complete sentences, add details, and combine related ideas. They rearrange sentence parts without losing the main meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students write complete sentences and add useful details about who, what, where, or when. They combine and rearrange ideas while keeping the sentence clear and meaningful.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may write fragments or run-on sentences when adding details. They may also change the meaning when rearranging words or join ideas without a conjunction.
How to Assess It
- Give students: “The dog chased the ball. The ball rolled under a bench.” Ask them to expand the first sentence, then combine both sentences correctly.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs word cards to build a complete sentence, add detail cards, and rearrange the cards while keeping the meaning clear.
Ask students to expand “Birds sang” with three details, then explain which added detail helps the reader most.
Play Sentence Switch, where students draw subject, action, detail, and conjunction cards to create and revise complete sentences.
Have students write two classroom rules, combine them with a conjunction, and revise the result for a hallway sign.
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1j
Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1f
Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1i
Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1.6
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
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