Grammar

Question 1

What is a coordinated clause?
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Answer 1

A type of clause that is of equal importance in a sentence, typically joined by a coordinating conjunction (e.g. but, and, nor, so)

I wanted to go for a walk but it was raining.

Question 2

What should you consider in a child’s conjunction use?

Answer 2

High or low incident of conjunctions?

Question 3

What is an anaphoric reference?

Answer 3

When a speaker refers back to the subject of the sentence

typically a noun - pronoun situation

Question 4

A sentence with one clause is…

Answer 4

monoclausal

Question 5

What are fronted adverbials?

Answer 5

Words or phrases that function as a verb, placed at the beginning of a sentence

e.g. Suddenly, Everyday, At the market

Question 6

What context should you consider if a child is able to uses conventional written language in a random instance?

Answer 6

Prior scaffolding by a teacher - Vygotsky

Question 7

When thinking of tense usage think about…

Answer 7

consistency

Question 8

National Curriculum grammar checkpoints from Yr1 - Yr5

Answer 8

Yr1 - Join sentences with “and”
Yr2 - Join sentences with subordinators “when”, “if”, “that”, “because”
- All punctuation
Yr4 - Fronted adverbials to vary sentence
Yr5- Relative clauses “which”, “where”, “when”, “how”, “why”

Question 9

What is the purpose of the National Curriculum Grammar Checkpoints?

Answer 9

To increasingly use the metalanguage (terminology) to help make conscious decisions