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Writing Sentences

Simple sentences​ contain one clause and a subject, verb and predicate.
​          example:  The clothes did not fit the baby.
Compound sentences contain 2 independent clauses connected by punctuation and a coordinating conjunction.
          Coordinating conjunctions are
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
                example:  I hate to waste the food on my plate, but my baby brother never eats his vegetables.
Complex sentences contain 1 independent clause and a dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction.  Generally, there is no puncuation following the independent clause, but there are exceptions.  If the dependent clause with the subordinating conjunction comes before the independent clause, then punctuation should follow the dependent clause.
          Subordinating conjunctions are:
                    after          although          as          because          before          even if          even though          if          in order that
                    once          provided that                rather than     since            so that          than                       that      though
                    unless       until                 when     whenever       where          whereas       wherever               whether
                    while         why

​                     example:  Ronnie begins to sneeze continuously whenever he tries to dust the house.
                     example:  As Jake tried to blow out the candles atop his cake, he forgot one.             

                    

ELA Test Prep Practice Passages

ELA 2017 Exam Questions      ELA 2017 Exam Scoring Materials      RACCE Bookmark and Rubric for Responses

Comparing 2 Fiction Texts      Double Dutch_Its Our World      Excerpt from Daughter of the Sea     Fiction 2_Go Fish 

Poetry Squirrel_Campfire Songs      NonFiction 3_Antarctica     Nonfiction 2 Mentor Passages     Wolf Stalker     

Find the Clues Characterization Activity        Fiction 4_Into the Darkness       Fiction 5_Act Your Age  

Fiction 6_Quilt Poetry

NonFiction/Expository Writing

Characteristics of Non-Fiction Text:

Writing a non-fiction summary:

Compare and Contrast:

Compare and Contrast: Similarities vs. Differences Example  

Maps and Organizers

What are thinking maps?       circle map      bubble map      flow map       tree map       brace map    double-bubble map
multi-flow map      bridge map
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