Conjunction Categories

This clear, skill-focused grammar worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen understanding of conjunctions by classifying them into coordinating, subordinating, and correlative groups. As learners sort a mixed word bank, they practice recognizing function words, identifying grammatical patterns, and analyzing how different conjunction types connect words, phrases, and clauses to shape meaning and sentence structure.

Learning Goals

• Conjunction Type Identification (Grades 4-6): Sort conjunctions accurately into coordinating, subordinating, and correlative categories.
• Grammar Classification Skills: Explain how each type functions and what it connects within a sentence.
• Language Foundations for Writing: Build knowledge needed to write more complex, varied sentences.
• Analytical Sorting & Categorization: Strengthen reasoning skills by organizing words based on shared grammatical features.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to support upper elementary grammar instruction.
• Quick, Focused Practice: Works well as an introduction, review, warm-up, or formative assessment.
• Supports Diverse Learners: Sorting format reduces writing load while still requiring careful thinking.
• Builds Sentence-Writing Readiness: Prepares students to choose conjunctions intentionally in their own writing.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence with conjunction types, grammar classification, and the language structures that support clear writing. By sorting and labeling conjunctions correctly, learners deepen their understanding of how sentences are connected and expanded for meaning and flow. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with grammar foundations, word functions, and analytical thinking.

This worksheet is part of our conjunction worksheets collection.