The FANBOYS Cup: How to Write Compound Sentences

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Welcome to the FANBOYS Cup!

In this course we teach students of all ages to write compound sentences featuring the coordinating conjunctions “and”, “but”, “or”, “so”, “yet”, “nor”, and “for”: the FANBOYS!

Course curriculum

1. Hello & Welcome!
1. Recap: What we learned from Start Your Engines
1. How to write a Compound Sentence with simple sentences and the FANBOYS!
1. Simple Sentence + "and" + Simple Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "And" Sentences: Listen and Repeat after Me!
3. Your Turn: Complete these "And" Sentences
4. Sentence Combination Writing Practice using "And"
5. Check your Work: Answers to the Sentence Combination Writing Exercises
1. Simple Sentence + "but" + Simple Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "But" Sentences: Listen and Repeat After Me
3. Your Turn: Complete these Sentences
4. Scaffolded Sentence Writing Practice using "But"
5. Sentence Combination Writing Practice using "But"
6. Check Your Work: Answers to the Sentence Combination Exercises
1. Simple Sentence + "or" + Simple Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "Or" Sentences. Listen and Repeat After Me
3. Your Turn: Complete these "Or" Sentences
4. Sentence Combination Writing Practice using "Or"
5. Check Your Work: Answers to the Sentence Combination Writing Exercises
1. Simple Sentence + "so" + Simple Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "So" Sentences: Listen and Repeat After Me
3. Your Turn: Complete these "So" Sentences
4. Scaffolded Sentence Writing using "So"
5. Sentence Combination Writing Practice using "So"
6. Check Your Work: Answers to the Sentence Combining Exercises
7. Write Expanded "So" Sentences with a Scaffold
1. Simple Sentence + "yet" + Simple Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "Yet" Sentences: Listen and Repeat After Me
3. Sentence Combination Writing Practice using "Yet"
4. Check Your Work: Suggested Answers to the Sentence Combining Exercises
1. Simple (Negative) Sentence + "nor" + Simple (Negative) Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "Nor" Sentences: Listen and Repeat After Me
3. Your Turn: Complete These "Nor" Sentences
4. Sentence-Combination Writing Practice using "Nor"
5. Check Your Work: Suggested Answers to the Sentence Combining Exercises
1. Simple Sentence + "for" + Simple Sentence = a Compound Sentence
2. "For" Sentences: Listen and Repeat After Me
3. Sentence Combining Writing Practice using "For"
4. Check Your Work: Suggested Answers to the Sentence Combining Exercises
1. "And", "but" and "so" Sentence-Generation (with picture cues)
2. "Or", "nor", and "yet" Sentence Generation (with picture cues)
1. Well done!
1. Workbook Exercises: Part I
2. Workbook Exercises: Part II
1. Suggested Answers for Sentence Combining Writing Exercises

About this course

$149.99
45 lessons
2.5 hours of video content

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In our FANBOYS Cup, we teach students of all ages to write compound sentences, step-by-step using:

10 scripted modules with writing scaffolds;
step-by-step video demonstrations;
a sequenced 500+ page writing workbook;
lots of scaffolded sentence models, sentence-combination practice, and independent practice
an explicit “I do, we do, you do” course structure.

The FANBOYS Cup!

Instructor

David Kinnane

Speech-Language Pathologist

I’m a speech-language pathologist at Banter Speech & Language in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been writing professionally for over 25 years. For more than a decade, I’ve worked with students of all ages to improve their confidence and creativity by teaching them to write well.

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Learn to write compound sentences with the ‘FANBOYS’ coordinating conjunctions.

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