Year 3 Using Conjunctions to Express Cause Homework Extension Conjunctions

Step 6: Year 3 Using Conjunctions to Express Cause Homework Extension Year 3 Autumn Block 3

Year 3 Using Conjunctions to Express Cause Homework Extension provides additional questions which can be used as homework or an in-class extension for the Year 3 Using Conjunctions to Express Cause Resource Pack. These are differentiated for Developing, Expected and Greater Depth.

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• Year 3 Using Conjunctions to Express Cause Homework Extension with answers for Year 3 Autumn Block 3.

National Curriculum Objectives

English Year 3: (3G1.4) Using conjunctions to express time and cause

English Year 3: (3G1.4) Express time, place and cause using conjunctions [for example, when, before, after, while, so, because]

Differentiation:

Questions 1, 4 and 7 (Varied Fluency)
Developing Join the clauses using the most suitable causal conjunctions (includes ‘so’, ‘because’ and ‘yet’). Sentences formed have two short clauses.
Expected Join the clauses using the most suitable causal conjunctions (includes ‘due to’, ‘as’ and ‘yet’). Sentences formed have two clauses.
Greater Depth Join the main and subordinate clauses using the most suitable causal conjunctions (including ‘in order to’, ‘as a result’ and ‘in case’). Sentences formed have the causal conjunction at the beginning.

Questions 2, 5 and 8 (Varied Fluency)
Developing Tick the sentence in which the underlined word which is a causal conjunction.
Expected Tick the sentence in which the underlined word which is the causal conjunction where ‘so’ has various functions within each sentence.
Greater Depth Tick the underlined word which is the causal conjunction where ‘since’ has various functions in each sentence. Causal conjunctions used in different positions within each sentence.

Questions 3, 6 and 9 (Application and Reasoning)
Developing Order the words to make a complete sentence with two short clauses where the causal conjunction ‘because’ is given.
Expected Order the words to make two separate short clauses. Choose a suitable causal conjunction to join them together.
Greater Depth Order the words to make two separate clauses. Find different ways of using causal conjunctions to join them together.

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