teaching resource

Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack

  • Updated

    Updated:  10 Apr 2025

Help your students practise writing complex sentences with our printable Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack for Year 5 and up.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  5 - 6

Curriculum

  • VC2E6LY09

    Create different types of texts, written and spoken, with developed and organised ideas for purpose and audience, and multimodal elements as appropriate <ul> <li>planning a report on a topic, sequencing ideas logically and providing supporting detail (including graphics, sound and visuals) to enhance audience engagement and understanding</li> <li>creating informative texts for 2 different audiences that explore a topic using text structure and language features for the identified audiences, noting the changes required to appeal to each audience</li> <li>using rhetorical devices, images and modal verbs for persuasive effects, for an identified audience</li> <li>selecting and combining digital tools to create texts</li> </ul>

  • VC2E6LY10

    Re-read and edit their own texts and the texts of others using agreed criteria and exploring editing choices <ul> <li>discussing the setting in a literary text with a peer during the editing process, and experimenting with literary devices that may enhance the setting</li> <li>re-reading and editing their own and others’ work using negotiated criteria for text structure, meaning and accuracy of grammar, spelling and punctuation, and explaining editing choices as required</li> </ul>

  • VC2E5LA05

    Understand that the structure of a complex sentence includes an independent clause and at least one dependent clause, and understand how writers can use this structure for effect <ul> <li>knowing that complex sentences make connections between ideas to provide a reason (for example, ‘He jumped up because the bell rang.’); state a purpose (for example, ‘She raced home to confront her brother.’); express a condition (for example, ‘It will break if you push it.’); make a concession (for example, ‘She finished her work even though she was feeling tired.’); or link 2 ideas in terms of various time relations (for example, ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned.’)</li> </ul>

  • VC2E5LA09

    Understand how to use commas to indicate prepositional phrases, and how to use apostrophes where there is multiple possession in regular and irregular nouns <ul> <li>learning that in Standard Australian English, regular plural nouns ending in ‘s’ form the possessive by adding just the apostrophe, for example ‘the students’ classroom’</li> <li>learning that in Standard Australian English, for proper nouns the regular possessive form is always possible but a variant form without the second ‘s’ is sometimes found, for example ‘James’s house’ or ‘James’ house’</li> <li>learning that when there is more than one owner, the apostrophe is usually used for the last owner in the list, for example ‘the cat and kitten’s bowls’</li> <li>using commas to signal a prepositional phrase, for example ‘On Saturday, before it rained, we went to the beach.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E6LA05

    Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas <ul> <li>investigating how the choice of conjunctions enables the construction of complex sentences to extend, elaborate on and explain ideas, for example ‘The town that was flooded suffered extensive damage.’</li> <li>creating complex sentences with embedded clauses to expand noun groups, for example ‘Hamish studied the rock samples that he had collected on the excursion, to complete his report.’</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack

  • Updated

    Updated:  10 Apr 2025

Help your students practise writing complex sentences with our printable Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack for Year 5 and up.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  5 - 6

Help your students practise writing complex sentences with our printable Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack for Year 5 and up.

Grow Writers with a Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack

Help your students master more complex sentence structures with this Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack, designed specifically for upper primary learners. As students progress through the years, it becomes increasingly important for them to build strong writing skills—including the ability to write and identify complex sentence types.

This Complex Sentence Worksheet Pack offers specialised practice to help students develop their ability to identify and use dependent and independent clauses to write complex sentences.

You’ll ♥️ Each Worksheet For Complex Sentences!

This Worksheet – Complex Sentences Printable Worksheet Pack includes thoughtfully designed complex sentence worksheets that combine reading comprehension with grammar and writing development. Each two-sided worksheet includes a short reading passage that students will annotate, identifying the subordinating conjunction, dependent clause and independent clause used by the author.

After completing the passage annotation, students will transition into Writing Complex Sentences Practice. Each worksheet includes 8 prompts in which students are asked to combine two simple sentences into one well-formed complex sentence.

This resource includes answer keys for easy grading.

Download Your Complex Sentences Worksheet – Year 5 Resource

This Complex Sentences Worksheet – Year 5 resource pack is available in two ready-to-use formats. Click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select the PDF version, or download the Editable Google Slides file should you need to make any changes before printing.


This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.


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