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Sentence Connectives Posters - Lower Grades
A set of 8 educational posters for sentence connectives and conjunctions.
Use this set of educational posters to help students with sentence structure. Connectives (or conjunctions) are words that link or connect other words, phrases or clauses within a sentence.
These posters include explanations, examples and word lists for:
- Time connectives
- Cause connectives
- Adding connectives
- Comparative connectives
- Conditional or concessive connectives
- Example connectives
- Contrasting connectives
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.F
Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1.C
Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.C
Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.6
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 1 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.6
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 2 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.J
Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.F
Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).

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