What am I teaching?
SPaG target
Use joining words
Writing link
I can choose and write adverbs to help my writing flow: First, Next (and) Fortunately, Sadly…
Part One - Ordering sentences
SPaG objective 1: I can use joining words to organise my sentences
Activity: What's the Word?
Aim: Begin by identifying, with the pupils, what type of letter the example is and its intention. Then show the letter template. Notice how there are missing words at the beginning of each sentence and how the writing doesn’t flow. To help us we can add some words to each section: the introduction and main body. These words are like water, they flow. Show the word box. Now can you fill in the gaps?
Resources required: Word box
SPaG objective 2: I can use joining words to organise my sentences
Activity: FANS MELT
Aim: Can you first order the jumbled-up sentences in this letter of complaint? Then can you rewrite them adding the conjunctive adverbs to glue the sentences to the FANS MELT acrostic sheet?
Resources required: Jumbled up sentences, FANS MELT acrostic sheet
Part Two - Recognising adverbs
SPaG objective 1: I can find adverbs in a sentence and write my own
Activity: Amazing Adverbs
Aim: Begin by explaining what adverbs are and how they add to a verb (the being or doing word in a sentence). Include some active examples modelling adverbs and then pick some from a text. Highlight and show sometimes adverbs have an -ly ending. Aren’t adverbs are amazing? They give us so much information, so much so they are always shining in a text (draw lines around adverbs in an extract). Would you like to make some amazing adverbs shine?
Resources required: Text extracts
SPaG objective 2: I can find adverbs in a sentence and write my own
Activity: Flip It!
Aim: Uh oh! For some reason, the adverbs have been moved to the end of each sentence. They still work there, but to help our writing flow the adverbs work better at the start of each sentence. They help join sentences to help writing flow. Ah! Remember not all adverbs end in -ly. It’s time to find and flip!
Resources required: Blank letter template
Part Three - Structure
FINAL objective: I can choose and write adverbs to help my writing flow: First, Next (and) Fortunately, Sadly…
Activity: Match!
Aim: Show the pupils a deconstructed letter placed in two columns: adverb openers on the left and list sentences on the right with a line to show their opener is missing. The text should match the letter format and topic/text. Pupils draw lines to match.
Resources required: Blank match template
