Alabama ELA Standard: 2.LF.43

Students work with subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to write compound sentences.

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

How many different ways can we use the word “fruit”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

These sentences about Washington, DC got scrambled. Can you put them back in order using nothing but context clues?

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

What happens when we switch out a “but” with a “so”? An “and” with a “for”? How can such tiny words make such big differences?

Have students mastered the art of anadiplosis: ending one sentence with the beginning of the next? Now it’s time to take it to the next level!

Can your students help The Bard? We’ll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be writing sentences with three dependent clauses.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at school.

Students pick from 12 random phrases to create a story about an incident in a restaurant.

Students use 12 random phrases to write a story that takes place in at an amusement park.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.

‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.