Select a clause connector

Every option is a real joining word, so none of them looks odd on its own. Only one describes the link these two particular clauses actually have. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.

Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Ignore the connective for a moment and ask what the second part is doing to the first: giving a reason, setting a condition, marking a time, or turning it around.

The skill map draws the line here: One relation such as cause, time, condition, or contrast. A question past that line is testing a different named English skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.

The grammar strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to select a clause connector are select a pronoun form, classify a word in context and complete a finite clause. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.

Use Connector Choice, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to select a clause connector, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.