Focus: Quick Write activity to support students to generate interesting ideas
Building complex sentences -Slide presentation mini-lesson
Focus: Learn how to build complex sentences by adding conjunctions (Refer to The Writing Book, Chapter 4: Teaching the Skills Toolkit, page 75).
Complex sentence – Conjunction card
Purpose: Students can use this resource to practise adding a range of conjunctions to sentences, building complex sentences.
Complex sentences – Wall display
Purpose: This is a display resource.
Thanks to Bairds Mainfreight School (Auckland) for the great idea.
Check out The Poetry Book for more great sentence activities.
Focus: Quick Write activity to support students to generate interesting ideas
Includes: a note-taking poster
Focus: explicitly teaching students note-taking skills
Focus: using current events and clever inventions to motivate students for writing