Standard 5: Language Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend texts and communicate effectively.

2.5.R.1 ​Students will recognize simple and compound sentences.

Student Actions

Teacher Actions

• Students recognize simple sentences.

• Students recognize compound sentences. 

• Teachers review the difference between simple and compound sentences. 

• Teachers introduce the conjunctions and, or, and but and their use in combining two sentences into a compound sentence. 

• Teachers explain how to differentiate between a simple sentence and a compound sentence. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to discern between simple and compound sentences. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to find simple and compound sentences in text. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback on recognizing simple and compound sentences. 

Recommendations

Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students have difficulty recognizing simple sentences, teachers can…

• point out that simple sentences have a subject and a predicate. They are a complete thought.

• write a simple sentence and have students circle the subject and underline the predicate. 

• find examples of simple sentences in student writing or text. 

When students have difficulty recognizing compound sentences, teachers can…

• prepare sentence strips of independent clauses and coordinating conjunctions for the students to concretely join together to create and recognize compound sentences. 

• sort simple sentences and compound sentences.

• prepare a list of simple and compound sentences where the students highlight the independent clauses.  The teacher can lead a discussion on how the simple sentences only have one highlighted clause while the compound sentences have two. 

• Compound Sentence: a sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.

• Independent Clause: a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought. An independent clause is a sentence.

• Simple Sentence: a sentence that contains one independent clause.

• 2.5.W.1: Compose sentences

• 2.5.W.4: End marks