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Sentence Openers KS2

Inspire children to experiment with different types of sentence openers to give their writing energy, variety and purpose.
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This Sentence Openers KS2 lesson introduces your class to the different ways sentences can begin to make writing more varied and engaging. Sentence openers can include adverbs, conjunctions, prepositional phrases and ‘-ing’ words, helping writers to create interest, improve the flow of ideas and capture the reader’s attention.

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Lesson 1: Sentence Openers

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.

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Picture Sheets
  • Sentence Openers Game Cards
  • Sentence Subject Cards
  • Sentence Opener Cards

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