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Expanding Sentences: Let’s Get Complex!

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Third Grade Reading & Writing Worksheets: Expanding Sentences: Let’s Get Complex!

It’s time to expand your students’ knowledge! Use this resource to practice taking simple sentences and expanding them by adding subordinating conjunctions.

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Grade

Third Grade

Subject

Reading & Writing

Grammar
- Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences

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Standards

L.3.1.i

Standards

English Language Arts and Reading

Grade 2
- 2.11.D.viii
Grade 3
- 3.11.D.i
- 3.11.D.viii
Grade 4
- 4.11.D.i
- 4.11.D.viii

Standards

English

Grade Two
- CM.2.1.e

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English Language Arts

Grade 4
- 4.2.A.1

Standards

English

Key Stage 2 Year 3
- 3.2.B.3
Key Stage 2 Year 5
- 3.2.B.2
- 3.2.B.4

Standards

Literacy and English

Third
- W.2.4

Standards

Literacy and English

Third
- W.2.4

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Standards

English

Year 2
- ACELA1467.a
- ACELY1671.c
Year 3
- ACELY1682.c
Year 4
- ACELY1694.b

Standards

English

Level 2
- RV.VCELA214.1
- W.VCELY230.3
Level 3
- W.VCELY266.3
Level 4
- W.VCELY299.2

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Guided Lesson: Sentences 2

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Third grade writers will be tasked with writing longer and more complicated sentences. This guided lesson in understanding, constructing and punctuating sentences can support kids as they learn to build bigger and better sentences in their writing. Grammar instruction and practical examples were written by our curriculum experts, complete with a list of recommended building sentence worksheets for third graders.

Third grade writers will be tasked with writing longer and more complicated sentences.

This lesson includes printable activities: Download all (5)

Exercise: End Punctuation 1

Game: Floyd Danger: Quest for the Complete Sentence

Exercise: Complete Sentences vs. Fragments 1

Game: Subject-Verb Agreement: Truck Edition

Exercise: Subject-Verb Agreement 1

Exercise: Pronoun-Verb Agreement

Exercise: Conjunctions 1

Exercise: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 1

Exercise: Comma to Combine Short Sentences 1

Exercise: Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions 1

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