Year 3 Subordinating Conjunctions KS2 Grammar Worksheets Lesson Pack

This powerful Key Stage 2 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on subordinating conjunctions in KS2, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.

This primary resource pack includes:

• Subordinating conjunctions PowerPoint
  This PowerPoint presentation includes explanations, examples and activities to introduce subordinating conjunctions to your students
• Subordinating conjunctions challenge sheet
  Circle the subordinating conjunction, join two clauses with a subordinating conjunction and write a short passage about the image provided, including a subordinating conjunction
• Conjunction card PDFs
  These come in three sizes – small, A4 and A5 – and include subordinating conjunctions such as ‘after’, ‘in order that’ and ‘although’
• Writing plan
  This sheet features an image to write a story about, with six boxes of writing prompts to help plan the story
• Uplevelling sheet
  Make these sentences more interesting by adding a subordinate clauses
• Teacher’s notes

What is a subordinating conjunction?

A subordinating conjunction introduces a subordinating clause and joins it to the main clause to create a complex sentence.

Subordinating conjunction examples

• Gina has been thrilled ever since Jenny arrived.
• The dog is barking because he wants to go for a walk.
• We need to clean up so that the classroom is tidy for tomorrow morning.
• I like living here even though the neighbours can sometimes be noisy.

Subordinating conjunctions list

• After
• Although
• As
• As if
• As long as
• Because
• Before
• Even though
• If
• If only
• Now
• Now that
• Once
• Provided
• Rather than
• Since
• So that
• Than
• That
• Though
• Till
• Unless
• Until
• When
• Where
• Whether
• Which
• While

National Curriculum English programme of study links

Pupils should be taught to:

Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although

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• PowerPoint
• Subordinating conjunction worksheets
• Clause cards
• Writing plan
• Uplevelling sentences worksheet