Homework and home learning tasks for Year 5 English on conjunctions, covering co-ordinating and subordinating clauses.
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Conjunctions are words that join clauses together, such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’, and ‘although’.
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What’s Included
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• Identify Task: A mysterious island paragraph where pupils find five hidden co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
• Select Activity: A table of FANBOYS and subordinating options to complete sentences about knights, dragons, and cakes.
• Apply Section: A creative writing prompt about a stormy night, bringing clause structures together into one paragraph.
• Challenge Extension: A task where pupils move subordinating conjunctions to the start of sentences, using the comma rule.
• Success Criteria: A pupil-facing checklist for checking their own grammatical accuracy.

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How to Use It
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1. Assign the mysterious island identification task for homework to get pupils spotting conjunctions independently.
2. Before writing, use the conjunction type table to help pupils pick the right connectors for the knight and dragon sentences.
3. As a plenary, challenge pupils with the transformation extension, moving on to using fronted adverbials for effect.

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Curriculum Coverage
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• KS2 National Curriculum — English (Year 5): Use a wider range of conjunctions to link ideas and vary sentence structure, including subordinate clauses.
• Year 5 Writing Composition: Change sentence structure for effect using fronted adverbials, and understand the ‘comma rule’ for subordinating conjunctions.

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Last updated: 1 July 2026
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File Includes
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PDF file included.