Use this Year 1 Recognising and Using 'or' Prior Learning worksheet to assess children's understanding of how to use ‘but’ as a joining word before moving on to working with 'or'. With three different questions, children are given the opportunity to show where ‘but’ should be placed in a sentence, decide which ending fits with a given sentence starter and join two sentences together using ‘but’.

This worksheet could be used as a prior knowledge check before the lesson or with small groups of children who may be struggling or simply need a little extra support with knowing how to use but correctly.