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The Curriculum Corner:
This website provides teachers with many resources on how to teach students to
combine simple sentences into compound sentences.
http://www.thecurriculumcorner.com/thecurriculumcorner123/2012/11/1
9/compound-sentences/
A Trip to the Zoo
Students will use and, but or or to combine each set of sentences to make one sentence.
(Use “worksheets” cautiously. You might use the worksheet as a model, in a
collaborative group where students only have one worksheet and have to discuss
the answers, or you might display the worksheet on the board and use 1-2 questions
as an exit ticket or journal response where they answer the question and
explain/justify their answers.)
Nancy Fetzer Sentence Builder
Have students brainstorm compound sentences and use their simple sentence to create
compound sentences using the Nancy Fetzer Sentence Builder.
http://www.commoncorestandardswriting.com/nancy-fetzers-grades-2-3-writingcurriculum-online-training/
 Nancy Fetzer Sentence Builder Template and Instructional Information:
The Sentence Builder chart is used to demonstrate many strategies and skills
for sophisticated sentence writing. This tool may be used to build elaborate,
well-developed topic sentences/thesis statements, story openings, and
powerful sentences with transitions.
 Nancy Fetzer Sentence Builder Cards: The sentence pattern Blueprints are
color-coded cards used to form three different types of sentence structures.
These cards include adjectives, nouns, and verbs for the parts of speech, and
why, how, where, and when questions to add modifiers to the sentences.
Once a sentence is constructed using the cards, students then move the
modifiers (where, when, how, and why cards) as a technique to revise and
vary a sentence.
Nancy Fetzer Narrative Writing Strategies:
Teachers may use their Fetzer manual or the online link as a resource for planning
the writing process. The link contains demonstration videos and blackline masters.
Click on the link and scroll to the Narrative Section.
http://www.commoncorestandardswriting.com/nancy-fetzers-grades-2-3-writingcurriculum-online-training/
Nancy Fetzer Training Modules are also available on LCPS Blackboard
CCSS Appendix C 2nd Grade Writing Sample and Annotation: This page and link
will provide an exemplar of grade level narrative writing (page 17), including an
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explanation (annotation). An exemplar of opinion writing is on page 15.
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_C.pdf
Florida Center for Reading Research (fcrr):
Sentence Meaning: Build a Sentence
Teachers can create their own cards with “collective nouns” and utilize the following
activity for instruction and practice.
http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_005a.pdf
Jan Richardson: Next Step in Guided Reading (Guided Writing Resources)
Provide students with opportunities to write sentences using “collective nouns” during
guided writing.
Compound Sentences:
Students will read two simple sentences and combine them into a compound sentence.
Compound Sentences (Use “worksheets” cautiously. You might use the worksheet
as a model, in a collaborative group where students only have one worksheet and
have to discuss the answers, or you might display the worksheet on the board and
use 1-2 questions as an exit ticket or journal response where they answer the
question and explain/justify their answers.)
Reading Street Resources: Look for activities and information specific to
“compound sentences”.
 Day 2: Vocabulary Activities (from digital path)
 Day 3: Grammar Jammers (from digital path)