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Shearing Day with Uncle Teo

Read a story about two cousins helping on sheep shearing day, then find, choose and sort coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.1.h

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students find coordinating and subordinating conjunctions in sentences.
Students choose the conjunction that fits the meaning of a sentence.
Students join two sentences with a subordinating conjunction.

How to use

Review that coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so) join two equal ideas and subordinating conjunctions (because, when, while, until) add a linked idea. Read the story together first.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.1.h

Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

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Shearing Day with Uncle Teo

Find, choose and sort words that join ideas.

Read the story

Read the story. Then find the conjunctions.

Shearing Day

1Every spring, Uncle Teo shears his sheep. This year, Wren and her cousin Bashir wanted to help, so they woke up early. The sheep were waiting in a small pen behind the barn.

2Uncle Teo held the first sheep gently because it was nervous. He moved the clippers slowly, and the thick wool came off in one big piece. Wren thought it looked like a fluffy rug.

3Bashir wanted to try the clippers, but Uncle Teo shook his head. "You can roll the wool instead," he said. Bashir rolled each fleece carefully while Wren swept the floor.

4After the last sheep was done, the pen was full of skinny sheep. They looked cold, but Uncle Teo said their wool would grow back before winter. "We will keep one fleece for Grandma," he said. "She can spin it into yarn."

5Before they went home, Wren and Bashir petted the sheep one more time. The animals seemed lighter, and they trotted around the pen happily.

This sentence is from paragraph 2. Underline the conjunction.

UncleTeoheldthefirstsheepgentlybecauseitwasnervous.