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.
Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas