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Joining Words with 'And'

Join words and clauses using the conjunction 'and' to create longer sentences

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When your child is telling you about their day, can they write two ideas joined together with the word 'and' — like "I had lunch and then we played outside"?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Building sentencesages 4–6Must understand sentences before joining them
Joining Words with 'And'this skill · ages 5–7
Unlocks
Subordinate clausesages 6–9Must be able to join with 'and' before learning subordination and other co-ordinating conjunctions

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9E2LA06low confidenceYear 2 · Language

understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2E2LA06low confidenceEnglish · Level 2 · Language strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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