Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simple and Compound Sentences | No Nonsense Grammar

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb and by itself contains a complete thought. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator:...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...