Sentence Openers KS2
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What You Get
This pack contains a fully-prepared lesson which has been written and created by experienced primary teachers.
The lessons contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation for adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
Curriculum Coverage
Curriculum Coverage
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Activities are designed to spark curiosity, encourage discussion and make learning memorable.
How can we make our sentences more interesting? This lesson aims to answer that question for your Year 6 children by showing them how to use a range of effective sentence openers to engage the reader.
Children will explore and experiment with how verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions and similes can be used as effective sentence openers. They will be encouraged to compose and compare different sentence starters, and explain why one may be more effective than another.
Everything you need is included within this Sentence Openers KS2 English lesson pack - a detailed plan, an engaging set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources.
You might also be interested in our Figurative Language Standalone Lesson Pack for Year 5.
What's included:
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Picture Sheets
- Sentence Openers Game Cards
- Sentence Subject Cards
- Sentence Opener Cards
Curriculum Objectives covered
Writing - Composition Objectives:
- assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
- proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
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