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Phrases and clauses: armadillo

3 - Whiteboard Challenges

Whiteboard Challenges

Challenge 1

Is the underlined part of the first sentence a phrase or a clause? How do you know? Could you replace this part of the sentence with some different words?

Challenge 2

Can you make the second main clause more descriptive by adding one or more phrases? Your phrases could explain what the armadillo, its tongue, or the termites looked like. You could also include a phrase to explain when or where the armadillo was collecting termites.

Challenge 3

Using some of the phrases on the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence about a giant armadillo. Remember to check that it makes sense and includes both a subject (the doer of the action) and a verb (the action word).

Whiteboard Challenges

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1) The giant armadillo dug a burrow with its long, curved claws.

2) The armadillo uses its tongue to collect termites.

Word Wall

with huge, sharp claws its long, sticky tongue the tank-like armadillo some delicious termites a shy and secretive mammal with poor eyesight its keen sense of smell a rare and endangered creature deep underground at dawn and at dusk during the day