Description: This lesson uses conversation cards to combine viewing, speaking, writing and reading in a series of activities that build students’ capacity to move from simple to more complex sentences using several different techniques. This allows students to improve the fluency of their writing. 

Additional Information:

• teaching examples and activities on how to 

  • write sentence kernels and then combine them

  • add dependent clauses to sentence kernels

  • add clauses using subordinate and correlative conjunctions

• list of subordinate and correlative conjunctions

• optional enhancement activities for further practice or assessment