This Understanding Clauses Assessment provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of clauses, subject-verb agreement and sentence structure through a variety of tasks. It includes a comprehensive rubric that enables teachers to evaluate students' skills at multiple achievement levels.

How to Complete

1. Students begin by identifying subjects and verbs in sentences.
2. Students discern between singular and plural subjects and verbs and use them to write sentences.
3. Students rewrite sentences to include subject-verb agreement and explain their corrections.
4. Students rewrite sentences to create compound sentences that include a suitable conjunction.
5. Students create compound sentences from an independent clause prompt.
6. Finally, students write their own simple and compound sentences based on given prompts.

Additional Tips

1. Pre-Assessment Review: Review subject-verb agreement rules, types of sentences, clauses and conjunctions use before the assessment to set students up for success.
2. Provide Examples: Go through a sample sentence in each section to clarify expectations for students.
3. Allow Discussions: Pair students briefly before the assessment to discuss how they approach sentence and clause identification.

Extension Ideas

1. Self-Assessment: Have students use the rubric to assess their own work before submission, encouraging reflection on their understanding.
2. Peer Review: Allow students to swap papers and review each other’s explanations, discussing how corrections and classifications were made.
3. Real-Life Application: Ask students to identify examples of clauses, sentence structures, and subject-verb agreement from their favourite books or stories.