This task helps pupils recognise what a real sentence looks like — an essential foundation for early writing. Each activity focuses on understanding that sentences need to make sense, contain a subject and a verb, and have words in the… Read More »Making Sense 1
In this lesson, children build on their understanding of subjects, verbs, and extra information by learning how to add when something happened. Through clear modelling and structured practice, pupils see how sentences can be expanded to show when events take… Read More »Lesson 16
In this lesson, children build on their understanding of subjects, verbs, and extra information by learning how to add where something happened. Through clear modelling and structured practice, pupils see how sentences can be expanded to tell the reader more… Read More »Lesson 15
This lesson helps children apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to write their own complete sentences. Pupils begin by revisiting what makes a sentence and identifying nouns before adding adjectives to describe them. Through clear examples and… Read More »Lesson 14
This lesson builds on pupils’ understanding of nouns and helps them begin to expand their sentences by adding adjectives. Children learn that adjectives are describing words that tell us more about a person, place, animal or thing. Through guided examples… Read More »Lesson 13
This is the first lesson in the next sequence designed to help children expand their sentences. In this lesson, pupils learn to identify nouns — the naming words for people, places, animals, and things. Understanding nouns is the first step… Read More »Lesson 12
In this lesson, children apply everything they have learned about subjects, verbs, and extra information to write their own sentences. The PowerPoint guides them step by step before encouraging independent writing using picture prompts. The follow-up activities give children the… Read More »Lesson 11
In this lesson, children consolidate their understanding of how sentences are built. They recap what a subject and a verb are and learn how to add extra information to make a sentence complete. Through clear, structured examples, the PowerPoint guides… Read More »Lesson 10
In this lesson, children revisit what they have learnt about subjects, verbs and extra information. They recap how each part helps a group of words make sense as a complete sentence. Through guided examples, pupils are reminded that every sentence… Read More »Lesson 9
In this eighth lesson, children learn that a verb can be made up of two words — a being verb and a doing verb. The PowerPoint introduces these in simple, child-friendly language with examples such as is running, are jumping… Read More »Lesson 8
