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Show students the sentence: Lilly ran all the way home and told
her mother and father everything. Ask students how you could
make that compound sentence into two simple sentences. Write
the new sentences on the board. Show students this sentence:
That night Lilly drew a new picture of Mr. Slinger and wrote a
story about him, too. Have them take apart the sentence and
make it into two simple sentences on a white board, exit slip or in
their response journals.
Give students the following two sentences from My Brown Eyed
Babe: I stopped right in front of the puppies. I looked them over.
Have students individually combine the two sentences into a
compound sentence. Share with turn and talk partners and
discuss.
Have students share their new sentences and discuss.
**You can take this lesson a step further the next day and do the
same process with examples of student writing. You can then have
the kids look at their own writing and create compound sentences
from simple ones or break apart longer compound sentences into
simple sentences.