We had a blast last week reviewing how to make our sentences more concise, and we are so looking forward to showing the students how to make those sentences even more purposeful by switching up sentence structure. Please note: these are for MEMBERS ONLY 🙂
Writing Lab #4: Sentence Variety
Class Syllabus – Grades 3-5
December 19, 2022
Objective: Students will be able to explore various sentence structures and determine their impact on a work of writing.
Essential Questions:
- What are phrases and clauses?
- How can these phrases and clauses be constructed in different ways?
- Why is it important to vary sentence structure in a writing piece?
Enduring Understandings:
- Phrases are groups of words that have either a subject or a verb.
- Clauses are constructions of words that contain a subject and a verb.
- Independent clauses can stand on their own
- Dependent clauses have a subordinate conjunction.
- It is important to vary our sentence structure, so that we can keep the reader interested and use our writing in purposeful ways to explain our ideas.
Standards:
| Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 |
| L.3.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. H. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. I. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences | L.4.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing C. Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence | L.5.3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. A. Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style. |
Materials:
- Please save the worksheet on your computer and have it ready and available to type into. DO NOT START IT.
