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Grade 4

CCSS ELA Standard: 4.L.2.c

Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.

Changing Coordinating Conjunctions

Changing Coordinating Conjunctions

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?

Punctuation Power

Punctuation Power

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!