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This activity builds first graders' ability to recognize and use frequently occurring conjunctions such as for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. Use the video page to introduce the terms and the FANBOYS trick. The Solve It pages give guided practice with immediate choice tasks, and the open-ended pages let students demonstrate learning in many formats. Prepare by cueing the video and having paper and pencils available for students who prefer to write. For the Think About It open-response, a high-quality answer names a specific conjunction or example learned (e.g., "I learned that 'and' joins items in a list") and a clear question shows curiosity (e.g., "When do we use 'but' instead of 'and'?"). For the Show It task, a high-quality response shows a compound sentence using a conjunction, either written, drawn with a caption, or spoken clearly in a short video. Teachers can mark open responses as correct when the student uses or explains a conjunction correctly and shows connection between joined parts; mark incorrect if the response shows confusion about what a conjunction does or uses incorrect words that do not join clauses or items.