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.
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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