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Coordinating Conjunctions
3rd Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;
(ii) past, present, and future verb tense;
(iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
(vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
(viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
(ix) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;
(x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.C.3.1
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
3rd Grade Writing - Coordinating Conjunctions Lesson
Coordinating Conjunctions
A
coordinating
conjunction
connects
equally important words,
phrases
, or
clauses
in a sentence.
Example:
I do not know whether I want a waffle
or
pancakes.
There are 7 coordinating conjunctions:
and
,
but
,
or
,
nor
,
for
,
yet
,
so
Example:
The weatherman predicted sun,
but
it rained all day.
Joe walks
or
rides his bike to school.
I do not like your attitude,
nor
do I like your behavior.
Emmy could not adopt another cat,
for
she already had three cats.
We were all tired,
yet
we still wanted to stay up later.
You are busy now,
so
I will talk to you later.
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