🔗 Compound Sentences

About this game

Compound Sentences helps students understand that a compound sentence joins two ideas with a joining word. Students read the start of a sentence, such as “It was cold, so …”, then choose the ending that makes sense. When they choose a wrong ending, the voice reads the whole sentence back so students can hear that it doesn't make sense. Colour coding shows the two ideas and the joining word.

Best for: Years 1 to 4

How to play

1. Read the start of the sentence and look at the joining word.
2. Choose the ending that makes sense. Tap an ending to hear the whole sentence.
3. Press New Sentences for the next one.
4. Use the Joining words menu to choose and, but, so; add or; or use all seven FANBOYS words (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).

Teaching tips

• Before choosing, ask students what the joining word tells them: and adds another idea, but shows something different, so shows what happened because of the first idea.
• Check that both parts of the finished sentence make sense on their own. That is what makes it a compound sentence.
• Turn the comma on or off to match how your school teaches punctuation before joining words.
• Print the worksheet for follow-up practice. It uses the joining words you have chosen.