Good places to start helping students with complex syntax include:

• • conjoined sentences (e.g. sentences with two ideas joined by “but”, “and” or “or”) (see our FANBOYS Coordinating Conjunctions Bundle); and
  • complex sentences with early developing subordinate conjunctions, such as “because”, “if”, “when” and “while”.

This 160+ page no-prep bundle of subordinating conjunctions provides scaffolded practice in formulating sentences containing key 8 conjunctions – ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘when’, ‘while’, ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘until’ and ‘unless’. Over 290 scaffolded sentences with both picture and orthographic cues – all tried and tested in our speech pathology clinic.