Thursday, June 2, 2016

Complex Sentences

We've been looking at some ideas around sentence structure, which actually tends to be a bit of a weakness with students at this level I find. Here are some DLO's showing the students' understanding of complex sentences at this time. Check out the week 4 and 5 writing planning on the site for a detailed breakdown of what we got up to, but the main things we looked at were:
  • independent clauses
  • dependent clauses
  • conjunctions
We looked at three ways to construct a complex sentence:
  • Independent clause + conjunction + dependent clause
  • Dependent clause + comma + independent clause
  • Split independent clause (subject + comma + dependent clause + the rest of the independent clause) 
Rock On,

Mr M








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