KS3 Basic Literacy: Relative Clauses

The seventh in the Basic Literacy series for lower ability KS3. This lesson covers:

• Starter/Do Now: following on from the previous PPT, learners practise making inferences from text (see cover image)
• Feedback slide
• Quick revision on complex sentences
• What is a relative clause? What is the purpose of a relative clause? What is the difference between a non-defining and a defining relative clause?
• Learners then work through a series of four relative clause-based tasks with corresponding feedback slides. There is a two-sided guidance sheet to aid their completion.
• Review Learning

**NB: As this lesson is aimed at lower ability learners, it only asks them to work with four relative pronouns instead of the complete range. These are:

• who
• whose
• that
• which**