Compound Sentences & Paragraphing Worksheets

Enhance your students’ writing skills by practicing compound sentences and using coordinating conjunctions. This printable worksheet pack features 4 pages of activities to guide students in practicing forming concise compound sentences.

Students will feel confident in improving their informative, persuasive, and imaginative writing pieces by using compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. This resource effectively guides students through understanding how to form, recognise, and structure of a compound sentence.

The useful explanations and examples provide students with technical grammatical language. There are opportunities for students to create their own compound sentences, following a scaffolded approach and consistent structure. Therefore, students will feel successful and confidence in their writing skills. Furthermore, students can create their paragraph using prompts that include compound sentences.

This resource includes:

• Explanation of how to form a compound sentence
• Examples of coordinating conjunctions
• Practice sentences
• Practice paragraph writing with topics

Students will:

• Gain an understanding of how to write a compound sentence
• Consolidate their knowledge of coordinating conjunctions
• Write a cohesive paragraph using the prompts with a compound sentence

Teachers will:

• Use the examples in explicit teaching
• Provide students with an independent, ready-to-print activity
• Guide students in writing detailed sentences and paragraphs

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum. It is suitable for students in grades 5 and 6. This resource is a useful tool in supporting students with NAPLAN preparation and fostering success in general writing skills.

AC9E5LA04 – understand how texts can be made cohesive by using the starting point of a sentence or paragraph to give prominence to the message and to guide the reader through the texts