Compound sentences
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around writing an accurate simple sentence and joining two ideas with 'and' co-ordination from the Year 1 grammar unit 'Simple sentences'. Pupils build their understanding that a simple sentence can take the form of a statement, question or command with the newly-taught exclamation sentence. They also build on joining two related ideas with 'and' with the new joining words 'but' and 'or' to form a compound sentence. This unit prepares pupils for adverbial complex sentence structure work in the Year 2 grammar unit 'Adverbial complex sentences'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A simple sentence is about one idea and makes complete sense.
- There are four types of simple sentence that each have a different purpose for the reader.
- Statements, questions and commands are three of the four types of simple sentence.
- Any simple sentence contains one verb and at least one noun.
- Two simple sentences can be joined with 'and'.
- The second idea builds on to the first idea if 'and' is used to join them.
- Grammatically accurate sentences start with capital letters and most often end with full stops.
- The tense of a simple sentence changes the time frame of the action.
- A sentence can be written in the past or present tense.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around writing an accurate simple sentence and joining two ideas with 'and' co-ordination from the Year 1 grammar unit 'Simple sentences'. Pupils build their understanding that a simple sentence can take the form of a statement, question or command with the newly-taught exclamation sentence. They also build on joining two related ideas with 'and' with the new joining words 'but' and 'or' to form a compound sentence. This unit prepares pupils for adverbial complex sentence structure work in the Year 2 grammar unit 'Adverbial complex sentences'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A simple sentence is about one idea and makes complete sense.
- There are four types of simple sentence that each have a different purpose for the reader.
- Statements, questions and commands are three of the four types of simple sentence.
- Any simple sentence contains one verb and at least one noun.
- Two simple sentences can be joined with 'and'.
- The second idea builds on to the first idea if 'and' is used to join them.
- Grammatically accurate sentences start with capital letters and most often end with full stops.
- The tense of a simple sentence changes the time frame of the action.
- A sentence can be written in the past or present tense.
Grammar
Compound sentences
In this unit, pupils learn that a simple sentence is a complete sentence about one idea that can be an exclamation as well as statements, questions and commands. They learn that two ideas can be joined by three different joining words for co-ordination: 'and', 'but', 'or'.
7 lessons in unit
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