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ELA4th Gradeedit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

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 join equal words or word groups with a coordinating conjunction. They create compound subjects, compound predicates, and two-clause sentences, then use commas only where needed.

What Mastery Looks Like

Students choose a conjunction that shows the intended relationship between ideas. They can revise choppy sentences and correctly punctuate two complete sentences joined by a conjunction.

Common Misconceptions

Students often put a comma before every and, but, or or. They may confuse a compound predicate with two complete sentences. They also join a complete sentence to a fragment with a comma.

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Combine three given pairs to make one compound subject, one compound predicate, and one compound sentence. Ask students to add punctuation and circle each conjunction.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Give pairs sentence strips and conjunction cards, then have them build and label a compound subject, compound predicate, and compound sentence.

  2. Ask students to explain how changing and to but or so changes the meaning of a sentence.

  3. Play Conjunction Sort by having teams place sentence cards under and, but, or, yet, or so, then check meaning and punctuation.

  4. Have students edit a short school announcement by combining repeated subjects, repeated actions, and related sentences.

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