Daily Sentence Structures: 15 minutes a day towards better writing! - Softcover

Lees, Alec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783173459 ISBN 13: 9781783173457

Publisher: Brilliant Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Teach primary school pupils to use a variety of sentence structures when writing creatively. With these short daily lessons, you’ll see improvements in as little as eight weeks.

This Teacher's Guide takes key sentence structures and breaks them down into a series of 15-minute lessons that build on each other. All pupils' confidence and self-esteem will increase when they have at their fingertips this fool-proof system for creating imaginative and interesting writing.

Children will quickly learn to:

• Use a variety of different sentence structures from short, dramatic sentences to sentences with subordinating conjunctions and clauses
• Develop complex sentences using clauses
• Vary the length, structure and subject of sentences to extend meaning and interest the reader
• Include a wider range of conjunctions in their writing
• Use a range of punctuation for effect
• Vary the pace to create atmosphere

The Daily Sentence Structures approach has been proven to raise attainment across all abilities. The systematic approach appeals especially to boys, who will enjoy applying logic to their writing and being able to create instant paragraphs.

Improve your pupils' confidence and self-esteem and your Key Stage 2 SATs results at the same time!

About this title

About the Author

Alec is an experienced primary school teacher teaching in Co. Durham. He has held numerous roles but his passion is in the Year 6 classroom. His main reward is seeing children under his care having a good grounding for their extremely important start at secondary school.

He is a husband and father of two and loves nothing more than getting out for a walk in the country!

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Teach primary school pupils to use a variety of sentence structures when writing creatively. These short daily lessons show improvement in as little as eight weeks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliant Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783173459
• ISBN 13: 9781783173457
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 58