Subordinating Conjunctions

A practical grammar resource that helps students understand how subordinating conjunctions connect ideas and show relationships between them.

Students explore how subordinating conjunctions can show time, reason, contrast and condition. Through discussion, sentence building and writing activities, students learn to identify conjunctions, understand the relationship they create and use them to build more detailed and interesting sentences.

Students will:

• identify subordinating conjunctions in sentences and texts

• explain the relationship a conjunction shows

• distinguish between time, reason, contrast and condition

• choose conjunctions that match the intended meaning

• build and improve complex sentences

• apply subordinating conjunctions in their own writing

What’s included:

• Learning Intention and Success Criteria

• explicit teaching and worked examples

• sentence structure and punctuation guidance

• 6 open-ended oral language activities

• Conjunction Builder activity

• sentence-writing practice

• Conjunction Challenge

• real-world writing task

5-page printable PDF digital download.