Learning Objectives:

1. Bread and Butter Skills –- Sentences Learning Objectives: to review what we mean by the term "sentence" and the ways in which words are put together to make a sentence; to identify some common features of a sentence.

2. Sentence? Not a sentence? Using the worksheet, place each of these tiles into the correct column. How do you know which ones are sentences and which ones aren’t? The blue classroom door He the boys shouted at He was angry Swinging on its hinges No one said anything We had no homework that day The whiteboard pen Silently, we left the room The door banged shut Glaring us

3. Sentence? Not a sentence? He was angry The blue classroom door He the boys shouted at No one said anything Swinging on its hinges Silently, we left the room Glaring us We had no homework that day The door banged shut The whiteboard pen

4. So what did you notice all the sentences had in common? It has to make sense by itself Word order matters Punctuation is important to help the reader understand what the writer meant.

5. Using the work sheet, help Jo correct his homework so that he is writing in sentences Jo's Homework We pushed open the door there was nothing but darkness we see. Then something moved something slithery and rustled about what was it rat. Arif hung back scared but I wanted to see what was in there my eyes were getting used to the darkness now I door kicked the open further. piles of old papers. On the floor they were brown and dried up looking nothing very interesting Here I thought then the noises started again louder this time with a chattering sort of sound. I didn't like it nor did Arif who came in standing behind me breathing in my ear I wished we had a torch but we didn't I pointed a small dark shape was moving down the wall like nothing I had ever seen before What was it was alive it