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Combining Sentences
OBJECTIVE • To combine sentences
DAILY MAINTENANCE
Have volunteers read aloud about combining sentences. Then ask students to tell how they might combine the sentences on the board.
Assign Practice Book page 4, Section 1.10. After students finish,
Lightning flashed, and thunder boomed.
1. Give immediate feedback. 2. Review concepts as needed. 3. Model the correct answer.
The kicker scored, but we lost the game.
Pages 4–5 of the Answer Key contain tips for Daily Maintenance.
WARM-UP Write funny sentences on sentence strips. Put the strips in a bag. Have partners choose sentence strips and act out the sentences individually. (Ethan stood on tippy toes. Tara tapped her nose.) Ask a third student to combine the two sentences into one sentence and write it on the board. (Ethan stood on tippy toes, and Tara tapped her nose.) Have students act out the combined sentence. Ask the class what was added to the sentences to make one sentence. Continue as time allows.
Ask students to tell the changes that were made to combine the sentences. (A comma was added and the words and and but were added.)
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EXERCISE 1 Tell students first to decide which sentences go together. Check students’ sentences to make sure each sentence includes a comma. EXERCISE 2 Ask volunteers to read aloud their sentences as you write them on the board. Have students identify the changes that were made to combine the sentences. EXERCISE 3 Ask partners to share their completed sentences with another pair of students.
Combining Sentences Several short sentences in a row can be boring to read. Putting short sentences together into longer sentences can make your writing more interesting. To combine two short sentences into one longer sentence, add a comma followed by and, but, or or. Two short sentences joined this way form a compound sentence. Two sentences:
Father read softly. The children listened.
Read from a piece of writing that the class is currently reading. Emphasize the combined sentences.
Compound sentence:
Father read softly, and the children listened.
Two sentences:
Jim passes the library. Amy doesn’t pass it.
Compound sentence:
Jim passes the library, but Amy doesn’t pass it.
TEACH
What two sentences were combined to make this compound sentence?
Review what students have learned about sentences. Remind students that sentences must be complete thoughts and must contain both a subject and a predicate. Reinforce that sentences can be combined to make writing more interesting. Write the following sentences on the board and read them aloud.
I’ll study music, or maybe I’ll play ball instead.
The first word in the second part of the compound sentence does not begin with a capital letter unless it is I or the name of a person or place. For example, in the compound sentence above, maybe does not start with a capital letter. EXERCISE 1 Match each sentence in Column A with a
related sentence in Column B to make a compound sentence. Column A
Lightning flashed. Thunder boomed. The kicker scored. We lost the game.
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Column B
1. Nonfiction books have facts, but
a. people today still like to tell or read them.
2. Biographies are stories of people’s lives, and
b. fiction books are made up. c. they are nonfiction books.
3. Adventure stories have lots of action, and
d. the action is often scary.
4. Folktales are old, but 20
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PRACTICE
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