Sentence Combining Practice

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🎯 WALT (We Are Learning To):

• Combine sentences effectively using pronouns, conjunctions, and transitions
• Improve sentence fluency and coherence through sentence combining
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition in writing

✅ Success Criteria:

I can:
☐ Identify pronouns, conjunctions, and transition words
☐ Combine simple sentences using pronouns to avoid repetition
☐ Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to join sentences
☐ Write clear, coherent combined sentences

📚 Part 1: Identifying Connecting Words

1. Circle the pronouns in these sentences:

Greenhouse gases absorb the sun's energy. They make the air hotter. This process affects our climate.

2. Tick the conjunctions you can find:

and

because

quickly

but

although

very

3. Which transition word shows cause and effect?

also

therefore

first

however

✏️ Part 2: Sentence Combining Practice

Use these simple sentences about greenhouse gases:
• Carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane, and nitrous oxide are greenhouse gases.
• Greenhouse gases absorb the sun's energy.
• They make the air hotter.
• They are a very small proportion of the molecules in the air.

4. Combine two sentences using a pronoun to avoid repetition:

5. Combine sentences using a coordinating conjunction (and, but, so, or):

6. Create one complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction (because, although, since, while):

7. Challenge: Write one sentence that combines at least three of the simple sentences using pronouns, conjunctions, and transition words:

Word Bank: they, these, although, because, so, but, and, therefore, as a result, however