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title: Practice with Coordinating Conjunctions
description: A quick lesson to practice combining sentences and elaborating with word referents!
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# [Practice with Coordinating Conjunctions](https://blog.empoweringwriters.com/love-to-write-and-read-all-day/practice-with-coordinating-conjunctions)

 Written by [Kylene Reed](https://blog.empoweringwriters.com/love-to-write-and-read-all-day/author/kylene-reed) | January 27, 2020

I'm always looking for meaningful bell work that can pack a big teaching point in 5 minutes or less! Last week, my sixth graders were reviewing types of sentences and conjunctions. For bell work, I gave them two simple sentences and asked that they combine them using the best coordinating conjunction to join the two. Then, I added an EW brushstroke! I had them add in a word referent instead of repeating the subject or adding a pronoun. Here is an example from the first day. I had three sentences up "The Before" and then students revised them for "The After" poster. Each day, I let a different three people add one of their sentences to the chart. Just a quick easy lesson that really helped the students in their writing!

 

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