3.11.D.viii
The Standard
coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect words, actions, and complete ideas with coordinating conjunctions. They decide whether they are joining subjects, predicates, or two complete sentences and add punctuation correctly.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose coordinating conjunctions that show the intended relationship between words or ideas. They form compound subjects, predicates, and complete sentences, using a comma when joining two complete sentences.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add a comma before every conjunction, even within a compound subject or predicate. They may also join two complete sentences without the needed comma or confuse a compound predicate with a compound sentence.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit ticket: Write one sentence with a compound subject, one with a compound predicate, and one compound sentence using a coordinating conjunction.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips to combine into compound subjects, compound predicates, or compound sentences using conjunction cards.
Ask students to explain how changing the conjunction in “I wanted to play, but it rained” changes the meaning.
Play Conjunction Sort by having teams place sentence cards under and, but, or, so, yet, for, or nor.
Have students write three playground rules, including one compound subject, one compound predicate, and one compound sentence.
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Related Standards
- 5.11.D.viii
subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
- 4.11.D.viii
The 4th Grade version of this standard.
- 6.10.D.vi
subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor;
- 2.11.D.viii
coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects and predicates;
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