Sentence Surgery – Embedded Clauses
Students must work together to “surgically" reassemble the sentence strips in the correct order to form a grammatically correct sentence with an embedded clause in the middle of a main clause.
Use as a whole class or literacy rotations activity.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify and use embedded clauses to expand the variety of complex sentences and extend ideas, e.g. My bike, which is very old (embedded clause), is broken.
- We are learning to understand that a complex sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction, e.g. because, if, that, which is used to extend, elaborate and explain ideas.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.