Complex sentences are an important step in enabling students to
produce more sophisticated writing. Mastering complex sentences
allows students to have greater control when communicating.
This guide is intended to provide a starting point for you to approach
the teaching of writing in your classroom. It builds on the knowledge
learnt in the other sentence guides.

This guide provides clear grammatical definitions, and unpacks the features of compound sentences and how they function. The guide also offers, as a starting point, some strategies for implementing sentence-level instruction in your classroom. And yes, compound sentences need to be taught in both primary and secondary classes!

This lesson is intended to teach Intermediate and Advanced EFL students how to build longer sentences in English. In this lesson, students will learn the different types of sentences in English syntax the ways they can be combined. This lesson is a segment of an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) course which is meant to advance learners' abilities in the four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing.  

This unit has been adapted for 4th Grade ELA sentence combining to be used as a whole-class activity in order to introduce writing with sentence variety.This lesson was originally intended to teach Intermediate and Advanced EFL students how to build longer sentences in English. In this lesson, students will learn the different types of sentences in English syntax the ways they can be combined. This lesson is a segment of an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) course which is meant to advance learners' abilities in the four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing.  

Sentence combining is an instructional technique used to improve sentence quality, complexity and variety. Students are taught how to combine two or more basic sentences to create more interesting, sophisticated and varied sentences. When sentence combining is taught explicitly and in a sustained way, it becomes one component of successful writing instruction.

This guide is intended to provide a starting point for you to approach the teaching of writing in your classroom. Good writing will generally feature a mix of sentence types, all of which are structured and punctuated correctly. It is important to note that the choice and mix of sentences in a text should be informed by an understanding of
the purpose and audience for the writing. The choice of sentence types may also be influenced by the genre of the writing, which will be informed by the curriculum area for which it is being produced. This is why writing needs to be taught explicitly and systematically, across all year levels and subjects, beginning with the essential
foundation of sentences.