This comprehensive unit plan supports students to learn about independent and dependent clauses. The unit starts off with a presentation to assist teachers explicitly teach independent and dependent clauses with examples for students to practice. The presentation aligns nicely with unit worksheets, starting with identifying clauses in sentences and leading into identifying clauses within short paragraphs and their own book of choice. The unit contains a detailed set of posters that also include (adverbial and adjectival clause posters). The unit contains student reference cards. At the completion of the unit, there is an assessment teachers can use to assess students’ understanding. The unit also comes with a game to consolidate learning.
Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb that need to agree
Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement
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 that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement
Teacher can modify activities at their discretion based on the dynamics of the class.