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Phrases and clauses: pink river dolphin

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 when or where the dolphin twisted its body and/or what the dolphin looked like.

Challenge 3

Using some of the phrases on the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence about a pink river dolphin. 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) With a bulbous head and long beak, the river dolphin looks different to its marine cousins.

2) The dolphin twisted its body.

Word Wall

pink river dolphin in the flooded rainforest a long, thin beak with poor eyesight along the muddy riverbed several pink-skinned males among the roots and branches playful and boisterous the dark, murky water echolocation