teaching conjunctions

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Conjunctions can be a tricky thing for beginning readers to learn and understand.Conjunctions are used to join words or groups of words together. The most common ones are and, or, and but. There are also many other conjunctions and many different types of conjunctions. Sometimes they can be hard to keep track of. Fortunately, there are lots of helps available to remember them!

This is an anchor chart I created for my second graders to help them learn conjunctions. #conjunctions #anchorcharts

I am focusing on some critical grammar skills. One of them is types of sentences and using coordinating conjunctions

As a child, grammar baffled me. I could never remember all the rules. I remember tuning out whenever conjunctions, dangling participles, or any other grammar terminology surfaced. This grammar deficiency made it very difficult to teach grammar. I had a grammar phobia... It took me awhile to get in my grammar groove. I basically had to rethink and reteach MYSELF all of the grammar rules that I had tuned out as a child. This included conjunctions. A conjunction is a word that is used to…

A blog full of tips, lessons, and ideas to use in the upper elementary classroom.

Combining sentences encourages students to take two or more short, choppy sentences and combine them into one effective sentence — to make their writing more readable and engaging. Sentence combining is a skill that develops over several short practice sessions.

Looking for a fun and engaging conjunctions anchor chart? Build knowledge on this grammar skill through a train analogy where two seperate sentence trains are connected by a conjunction! Plus, who doesn’t love tying it into our favorite Schoolhouse Rock video!

FANBOYS is an acronym to help English Language Learners remember some coordinating conjunctions. The letters stand for: for and nor but or yet so FANBOYS are seven words known as coordinating conjunctions. A coordinating conjunction is used to join two clauses to create a compound sentence. Both clauses in this sentence should be independent (make sense by themselves).

Find many ideas and fun activities for teaching compound sentences. Includes a comma craft idea, incorporates the fanboys, and much more!