This helpful unit contains resources to help support your students to understand how adverbial phrases add circumstantial details about an activity and add greater meaning to writing. The unit comes complete with a presentation, posters, multiple worksheets, reference card, group activities and a student assessment at the end.
Understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases
Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity