This worksheet can also be used as an assessment task, to check your students’ understanding of noun groups. It is a part of a larger unit, Year 4 - Noun Groups Unit, designed to help your students identify and experiment with language features to enhance their writing.
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 that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases
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