Combine & Conquer – Sentence Superheroes

Can your students combine sentence pairs to form coherent sentences? 

Combine & Conquer – Sentence Superheroes allow your students to merge sentences to form correct and coherent sentences, building their grammar and syntax muscles.

The learning objective of this lesson is to improve students' sentence construction skills by identifying and correcting redundancies, misplaced modifiers, and improper coordination of conjunctions and placement of phrases or clauses.

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- A topic: Something your students care about or are currently learning about. 
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Tags: Sentence revision, rewriting sentences, sentence construction, coordinating conjunctions, placement of phrases, placement of clauses.

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 3 on page 29.)

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement, past, present, and future verb tense, singular, plural, common, and proper nouns, adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms, adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner, prepositions and prepositional phrases, pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases, coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences, capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places, punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series, correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (i) complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; (ii) consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses; (iii) conjunctive adverbs; (iv) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; (v) pronouns, including relative; (vi) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor; (vii) capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations; (viii) punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements; (ix) correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice; prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; pronoun-antecedent agreement; correct capitalization; punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses; and correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too

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