Conjunction Expansion

This creative grammar and writing worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen sentence fluency, grammatical accuracy, and expressive writing skills by expanding simple sentences with conjunctions. As students add new ideas using coordinating, subordinating, or correlative conjunctions, they practice building compound and complex sentences while thinking carefully about meaning and clarity.

Learning Goals

• Sentence Expansion (Grades 4-6): Expand simple sentences by adding related ideas and connecting them with appropriate conjunctions.
• Conjunction Choice & Function: Decide when to use coordinating, subordinating, or correlative conjunctions based on sentence meaning.
• Sentence Structure Development: Practice writing compound and complex sentences correctly.
• Creative & Cohesive Writing: Add detail and depth while maintaining clarity and flow.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to align with upper elementary writing and grammar standards.
• Encourages Creativity: Allows students to make choices while still practicing grammatical precision.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for writing lessons, grammar practice, homework, enrichment, or literacy centers.
• Builds Writing Confidence: Helps students move from basic sentences to richer, more expressive writing.

This printable worksheet helps students develop confidence in using conjunctions to expand ideas and improve sentence variety. By constructing their own expanded sentences, learners strengthen grammar knowledge, writing fluency, and cohesion. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with sentence expansion, conjunction usage, and expressive written communication.

This worksheet is part of our conjunction worksheets collection.