Extending sentences with when, if, because, although: echidna
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Which conjunction from the Word Wall could you use to join the two simple sentences (1A & 1B) together? Write down or say aloud your new extended sentence.
Challenge 2
Look carefully at the sentence 2. Can you find the conjunction? Is it in the right place? Re-write the sentence so the conjunction is correctly placed.
Challenge 3
Write your own scintillating sentence about an echidna that uses a conjunction from the Word Wall and some of the descriptive words. Your sentence could begin with the conjunction or it could follow on from your first clause.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) The echidna was scared. It curled up into a ball.
2) The echidna finds an ant colony it uses its long sticky tongue when to suck up ants.
Word Wall
because, if, when, although
echidna
egg-laying mammal
Tasmania
puggle
razor-sharp spines
beak-like snout
long, sticky tongue
paddled
waddled
snuffling