Sentence Structures
An independent clause is a complete sentence on its own. Join two of them, and you change the whole structure.
Preview how it deepens, Grades 3 through 8.
Build one yourself.
Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.
1 · first complete thought
2 · Connie's joiner
3 · second complete thought
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play Sentence Surgeon →Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play Garbage Sentences →Join two complete thoughts the right way.
A comma alone is too weak to hold two complete thoughts together. This is a comma splice.
Add a joining word after the comma and the two thoughts connect as equals.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Sentence Structures runs the length of the Factory, Grades 3 through 8. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.