Revision Ideas

Here are some ideas for Revising the Sentences

Padlet

Here you can add the sentence types you want to revise. Give the students a subject and then ask them to add to the padlet. It is a great tool to be able to point out correct sentences as they appear, as well as give immediate feedback and feed forward to sentences that need corrections.

Here is an example. Duplicate the Padlet first and ensure that "visitors can write" to the padlet

Revision Padlet

Using pictures relating to your subject area

Creative writing pictures

Topical Prompts

Sentences Revision

Cut up sentences

Using the learnt sentence types, write sentences relating to your subject area and cut them up . Ask the students to put them back together.

Cut up sentences

The Power Sentence - Quiz

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/wordy_quiz.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/concise.htm

Mini whiteboards

List of different sentence types on the board. 1 student chooses a topic, another student chooses a sentence type and they all write it and peer assess.
Show students sentences that need improvement e.g. - simple sentence needs to be ‘protected’, capital letters are missing; sentence doesn’t make sense. Students write the correct sentence and share.
Class sentence - one student starts it e.g. w-start While, next student writes the next word the, and students keep adding words until they have a correct sentence.
In one minute...write a w-start, explore the subject, -ing start sentence etc.

Link to Reading

Look at a paragraph from any reading that is being done in class and see how many sentence types can be identified.
Students will begin to see what types of sentences are commonly used in different types of writing.

In their writing.....

When writing paragraphs, instruct students to use e.g. 3 different types of sentences and then highlight them.
Ask students to highlight their golden sentence in a piece of work and explain why. ( I have been highlighting 1 golden sentence in each paragraph in students’ work and it has been positively received)
When editing and revising, remind students to check there is a variety of sentence types.

Bus Stop

Writing paragraphs using TEXT and Sentences:

Bus Stop - group students.

Each group writes a topic sentence on a piece of A3 paper.
Students move,as a group, to the next table.
They read the topic sentence and add the next sentence (eg: a W start sentence for the E in TEXT). Groups move again and add the eXtra detail sentence using an Adverb start.
The groups then move and finish the paragraph with a Power sentence for the Tie Up. You can also ask students to highlight key vocabulary or substitute words using a thesaurus.

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