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📖 3rd Grade · ELAL.3.1iUnit 7: Grammar & conventions

Compound and complex sentences

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🎯 Objective: Students produce simple, compound and complex sentences.

Lesson outline

  1. Combine with and/but/so and with because/when/although.
  2. Practice.
  3. Revise writing.
  4. Exit: one complex sentence.

Lesson 5 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.3.1i

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs correctly
  • Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue and addresses

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & conventions”

  1. Parts of speech
  2. Verb tenses
  3. Subject-verb agreement
  4. Comparatives and superlatives
  5. Compound and complex sentences
  6. Commas and quotation marks

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