understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a NAPLAN-year topic. Bloomi teaches it with a short explainer, guided practice, and NAPLAN-style questions — every one traceable to this exact code.

What this looks like in the classroom

• identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
• consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
• examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”