Conjunctions:

FAN
BOYS and You
Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade Writing 60 minutes
Standards: L.4.2.C, L.5.3.A

by Caitlin Fahey June 26, 2015

Improve your students' sentence variation with this lesson that teaches them how to use
conjunctions to improve the flow of their writing.

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify and create compound sentences using conjunctions.

Materials and Preparation Key Terms:
Grammar Review: Conjunctions worksheet compound sentence
Grammar: Clauses worksheet clauses
Document camera FAN BOYS
Colored pencils, optional

Attachments

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Grammar Grammar:
Review: Clauses
Conjunctions

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Lesson
Introduction (5 minutes)
Tell students that a compound sentence is made of two clauses, or the parts of a
sentence that can stand alone.
Show students some examples of compound sentences, and ask students to find the
clauses.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (10 minutes)

Tell students that the two clauses must be joined by a comma and a conjunction word.
Make a list of conjunctions on the board. Spell out FAN BOYS and tell students this stands
for For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So.
Hand out the Conjunctions worksheet.
Instruct students to write FAN BOYS on their paper.

Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (15 minutes)

Display the worksheet and complete the first few problems as a whole class.
Have students complete the worksheet.
Hand out the Clauses worksheet.
Remind students what clauses are, using the worksheet's examples.

Independent Working Time (20 minutes)

Have students complete the Clauses worksheet.
Have students flip over the paper or use lined paper. Instruct them to write 5-10 compound
sentences.
Tell students that their sentences must have two independent clauses, a comma, and a
conjunction.
To make this more challenging, have students use three colored pencils to identify the three
parts of the sentences.

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Extend
Differentiation
Enrichment: Have students use three colored pencils to identify the three separate parts of
the sentences.
Support: Give struggling students prewritten sentence strips to piece together the three
parts of the compound sentence. Partner struggling students up with a peer mentor.

Review
Assessment (7 minutes)
Have students correct their own worksheets by displaying the answer sheets.
Have students share one compound sentence each.

Review and Closing (3 minutes)

Review the key terms.
Have students ask any final questions they may have about the lesson.

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