Help your students build stronger, more sophisticated sentences with this complete SWABIs (subordinating conjunctions) teaching bundle!

This resource set provides everything you need to teach, practice, and assess your students’ understanding of subordinating conjunctions and complex sentence construction. Perfect for middle or high school ELA classrooms, grammar workshops, and English language learners.

What’s Included:

1. SWABIs Presentation & Practice: Complex Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions
Use this clear, visually engaging presentation for direct instruction or self-paced learning. Students will:

• Learn the function of subordinating conjunctions (SWABIs)
• Combine ideas to form complex sentences
• Understand how SWABIs show relationships between ideas (cause, time, contrast, etc.)

Includes built-in practice activities ideal for bell ringers, exit tickets, or mini-lessons on sentence variety and comma usage.

2. SWABI Practice: Using Subordinating Conjunctions & Creating Complex Sentences
This editable worksheet or digital assignment reinforces understanding through:

• Multiple-choice questions
• Sentence-combining activities
• Sentence-creation tasks

Use it as a formative or summative grammar assessment. Printer-ready, classroom-tested, and includes an answer key.

BONUS: 10-Question Google Form – Practicing SWABIs in Complex Sentences
Students apply their knowledge by combining ideas to form correct complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions. Great for quick checks or digital homework.