3rd Grade iReady & Writing Workshop
i-Ready
Writing
Linking Words
For you to weave your stories together, it is important to learn how and where to use the right linking words. They add the required flow to your writing when you place 4-5 or more sentences together. To keep the interest of the reader alive, learn to use these words appropriately:
Language
Extra Language Lessons to Help from Home
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- Produce compound sentences using a comma before the coordinating conjunction.
- Produce sentences with compound predicates
- Produce sentences with compound subjects
- Use strong verbs
- Use descriptive adjectives
- Use quotation marks to show dialogue
- Use a comma to show dialogue
- Punctuate dialogue using quotation marks and commas
- Use and form simple verb tenses
- Ensure subject-verb agreement
- Ensure pronoun-antecedent agreement
- Use coordinating conjunctions to write sentences
- Use subordinating conjunctions to write sentences
- Use coordinating conjunctions to connect parts of speech
- Use coordinating conjunctions to connect phrases or clauses
- Use subordinating conjunctions to connect clauses
- Write simple sentences
- Using abstract nouns properly
- Write titles correctly by knowing which words to capitalize
- Form and use singular and plural possessives