This written language activity, ‘Adverbial Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by adding adverbial phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how an adverbial phrase expands an idea by adding important or interesting details.
This written language activity, ‘Building on Nouns and Adjectives’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding descriptions and making them more interesting and informative by building on nouns and adjectives.
This written language activity, ‘Changing Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding meaning to sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of elaborating, extending and explaining ideas in extended sentences.
This written language activity, ‘Complex Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand the ways complex sentences can be constructed as they develop and express their ideas in writing. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sentence structure.
This written language activity, ‘Expanding Descriptions: Adding Nouns and Adjectives’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding descriptions by adding nouns and adjectives. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how adding nouns and adjectives makes a description more interesting and informative.
This written language activity, ‘Expanding Ideas with Verbs’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise expanding ideas by using verbs and verb groups. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of how changing a verb to a more interesting or explicit verb group can make their writing more expressive.
This written language activity, ‘Extending Sentences: Adding Phrases’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding words to make extended sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of adding phrases.
This written language activity, ‘Extending Sentences: Adding Subordinate Clauses’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding words to make extended sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of adding subordinate clauses.
This written language activity, ‘Extending Simple Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding words to make extended sentences. The focus is simple sentences.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Making Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand the way words appear in written language. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sentences through a fun activity in which students form short sentences using jumbled sentences.
This written language activity, ‘Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand sentence structures as they develop and express their ideas in writing. Students will focus on noun and verb groups and phrases; prepositional phrases.
This oral language activity, ‘Sequence Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to recognise the sequence of events in a story. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sequencing through a fun activity in which students match jumbled sentences to a sequence of four photographs.
This oral language activity, ‘Sequencing Images in Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to express ideas in sentences. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of sequencing through a fun activity in which students put a set of story picture cards in order.
This written language activity, ‘Simple and Compound Sentences’ supports language development by encouraging students to understand common sentence structures and agreement of verbs. Students will learn about clauses, simple and compound sentences and subject-verb agreement.
This written language activity, ‘Using Tenses’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise using tenses appropriately. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of tenses and how a simple sentence can be expressed in different ways to indicate time in the past, present and future.
This written language activity, ‘Verbs and Processes’ supports language development by encouraging students to explore and understand the different functions (processes) of verbs. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of the wide range of verbs, such as doing, thinking, saying, feeling and relating.
This graphic organiser, ‘Wash Day’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, looking at different sentence types to ensure variety in their writing.
This written language activity, ‘What’s Really Happening?’ supports language development by encouraging students to practise adding circumstantial details with adverbial groups and prepositional phrases. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of what is really happening in a sentence by discovering details that explain where, when, how and why.
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