Conjunctions PowerPoint Lesson

Students will define a conjunction as a word used to join words, groups of words, or sentences.

Students will identify the conjunction used within a given joined sentence.

Students will select an appropriate conjunction (and, but, so, or, because) to combine two related sentences.

Pause after each practice slide before revealing the answer slide, since the lesson is structured as a question slide immediately followed by its answer.

Use the two modelled 'Jake overslept' examples (joined first with 'and' and then with 'so') to discuss how conjunction choice changes meaning, not just sentence length.

Play the embedded conjunctions video from the recap section as a wrap-up or as an alternative introduction before the slide-based examples.

Conjunction identification — students name the joining word already used in a combined sentence.

Conjunction selection — students choose the correct conjunction (and, but, so, or, because) from a short list to combine two given sentences.

Sentence combining — students see two short sentences joined into one longer, more fluent sentence using a conjunction.