How can you tell they’ve got it: Joining Words with 'And'?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Combine two simple sentences using 'and' (e.g. 'I like cats and dogs'); Join two related clauses with 'and' (e.g. 'We went to the park and we played'); Use 'and' in lists of items within a sentence. Or just try it together: 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"?

English Grammar & Punctuation Ages 5–7

Joining Words with 'And'

Your child can join two short ideas with the word and. This makes one longer sentence, like I like cats and dogs.

In curriculum terms

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

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Combine two simple sentences using 'and' (e.g. 'I like cats and dogs')
Join two related clauses with 'and' (e.g. 'We went to the park and we played')
Use 'and' in lists of items within a sentence

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Try this together

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

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

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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