Year 3 Coordinating Conjunctions Grammar Worksheets Lesson Pack

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

This primary resource pack includes:

• PowerPoint
  Including explanations, examples and activities to help children learn all about coordinating conjunctions
• Coordinating conjunctions challenge sheet
  Includes activities such as circling the coordinating conjunction and underlining the subject word in each sentence, adding a coordinating conjunction to join two clauses and more
• Clause cards
  These PDFs come in three sizes – small, A5 and A4 – and include phrases like ‘I went home’, ‘He doesn’t want to go to the town’ and ‘The train was running late’
• Writing plan
  This PDF worksheet includes an image in the middle and six boxes with prompts. Children write a story about the image, using each prompt as a guide to plan it
• Uplevelling writing worksheet
  Rewrite each of the sentences to make them more interesting. Add a coordinating conjunction to one sentence in each section, but think of other ways to improve the other sentences
• Teacher’s notes

What is a coordinating conjunction?

A coordinating conjunction is a conjunction that goes between, and links, words, phrases, clauses or sentences of equal importance.

Coordinating conjunction KS2 examples

• The walls were painted white and blue.
• My phone is either in my bag or on the table.
• I enjoy geography but not RE.
• I won’t eat chillies for they are too spicy for me.
• Stevie won’t drink milk, nor will he eat eggs.
• We cleared the table so we could play a board game.
• She doesn’t try very hard, yet she still does well.

Coordinating conjunctions list

There are only seven coordinating conjunctions; they can be remembered using the acronym FANBOYS:

• And
• But
• For
• Nor
• Or
• So
• Yet

National Curriculum English programme of study links

Use coordinating conjunctions (eg ‘and’) to link two words or phrases together as an equal pair

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• PowerPoint
• Coordinating conjunctions worksheets
• Clause cards
• Writing plan
• Uplevelling sentences worksheets