English / Year 2 / Language / Expressing and developing ideas

Curriculum content descriptions

Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467)

Elaborations
  • learning how to express ideas using compound sentences
  • learning how to join simple sentences with conjunctions, for example ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘so’, to construct compound sentences
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Compound sentences

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