Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is prepared by Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College, this extremely thorough site breaks down its discussion into categories of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Focuses most...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Rules for Fixing Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site targets comma splices and fused sentences. It provides information on how to fix them using conjunctions (both coordinating and subordinating) and puntuation.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Essay [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Power Essay, like the power paragraph, focuses on helping students understand the structure of a piece of expository writing. The "power" concept teaches students to organize their ideas according to levels of specificity and to...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Word Types Conjunctions

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
An eight-part learning module with links to texts, images, videos, and websites to use while learning about conjunctions.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Conjunctions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will understand how sentences can be joined in complex ways through the use of conjunctions (and, then, if, so, while, though, since, when).
Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the kinds of conjunctions including coordinating, correlative, subordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs and the punctuation needed with each kind. It explains, gives examples, and provides lists of each kind.
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The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th
Come and learn about all types of conjunctions when you visit this educational resource. This site gives a clear definition of the function of a conjunction. Use the "Turn the Page," function to learn more.
Activity
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Parts of Speech Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Nice website that offers an explanation of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions, along with examples of usage and an interactive quiz.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th
A screencast lesson [4 mins, 24 secs] introducing and providing examples of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions.
Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the two main types of clauses. Content includes instructions for and examples of using clauses to build different types of sentences and information on recognizing types of clauses.
Handout
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Conjunctions: Introduction to Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An explanation of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions with examples and example sentence.
Handout
English Plus+

Grammar Slammer Glossary: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a basic definition of conjunctions, with hypertext links to related terms (phrases, clauses, subordinate clauses, and main clauses). Addresses coordinate, correlative, and subordinate conjunctions.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conjunctions: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on conjunctions; it defines conjunctions. It explains each of the three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative. It defines each, lists the conjunctions, and provides sentences...
eBook
Quia

Quia: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 14-question, multiple choice quiz over conjunctions. Students read each statement paying attention to the punctuation around the blank and select the appropriate word.
Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 11.1: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that demonstrate how to identify and correctly use commas with coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and introductory...
Handout
The Tongue Untied

Tongue Untied Correlative Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers numerous examples of the rules of correlative conjunction usage. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions, coordinating...
Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers a good definition and numerous examples of coordinating conjunctions. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions,...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
eBook
Quia

Quia: Main Idea/supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a conjunctions quiz using coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs.
Handout
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Conjunction

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An explanation of conjunctions including links to addition information: What is a Conjunction, Introduction to Conjunctions, Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions, and a Conjunctions Quiz.
Activity
Other

Spanish in Texas: Introduction to Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module reviews information about the use of Spanish conjunctions. Lists of conjunctions, arranged into coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions, are included. Audio and written examples are provided, along...