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4-5-W-3

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Standard 5: Language
Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to reading and writing.

WRITING: Students will demonstrate command of Standard English grammar, mechanics, and usage through writing and other modes of communication.
4.5.W.3 Students will compose simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions, create sentences with an understood subject, and correct fragments and run-on sentences.
Student Actions	Teacher Actions

Teachers explain and model how to write simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions.
Teachers provide opportunities for students to write simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions.
Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when writing simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions.
Teachers explain and model how to identify and correct fragments and run-on sentences.
Teachers provide opportunities for students to identify and correct fragments and run-on sentences.
Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when they identify and correct fragments and run-on sentences.
Teachers explain and model how to write using an understood subject.
Teachers provide opportunities for students to write using an understood subject.
Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when writing using an understood subject.
Teachers explain and model how to write simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions.
Teachers provide opportunities for students to write simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions.
Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when writing simple, compound, and complex sentences and questions.

Supporting Resources

A simple sentence contains one independent clause. An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a complete thought.

A compound sentence has more than one independent clauses joined together with appropriate punctuation and/or conjunctions.

A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause (a group of words with a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as a complete thought).

It is important to emphasize the relationship between ideas when determining how to combine independent clauses. Students will often memorize the methods of combining sentences but miss the idea behind linking ideas together. Be sure to guide them in when ideas should not be combined into one sentence.
Sentences with an understood subject will not have the subject actually appear in the sentence. These are known as imperative sentences with the “understood you” as the subject.

Sentence Fragments are incomplete sentences. Usually, fragments are pieces of sentences that have become disconnected from the main clause.

One of the easiest ways to correct them is to remove the period between the fragment and the main clause.
Other kinds of punctuation may be needed for the newly combined sentence.

Run-On Sentences occur when two or more independent clauses are combined without correct punctuation.