Simple, Compound and Complex Sentenes

Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences

(Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences - Literacy teaching resource featuring 15 slides)

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Literacy Teaching Resources: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences teaches pupils how and when to use simple, compound and complex sentences in their writing.  This 15 slide PowerPoint resource can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into an existing activity or developed into a longer lesson on wider sentence structure rules. 

Literacy Teaching Resources: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences includes:

What are simple, compound and complex sentences?

How to use subordinating conjuctions in a sentence.

What is the subordinate clause?

How to add a subordinate clause to create a complex sentence.

Understanding run on sentences.

Strategies to avoid run on sentences.


For a preview of Literacy Teaching Resources: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences click on the slideshow images from the PowerPoint below:

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