Noughts and crosses – subordinating conjunction style. This is a great game to play once the children understand subordinating conjunctions and it will really build their confidence while being an entertaining challenge. It’s also a good game to play at a staff meeting to help build staff confidence.
Sentence structure progression
Rehana and Rashida from Yew Tree Community School in Birmingham, a Talk for Writing Training School, have kindly shared their toolkit showing how sentence structure progresses across the years.
Never-heard-the-word grammar grid
If you’re teaching grammar, as with any teaching, it’s important to establish what the children already know and what needs to be taught. Use the never-heard-the-word grid with your class in order to establish which of the key grammar terms need teaching, or which the children have understood from previous grammar lessons.
Talk for Writing actions for key connectives
The connectives actions sheet is a one-page document with pictures of Pie demonstrating the suggested Talk for Writing actions for the key connectives.
Connectives phrase bank
This document is a connectives phrase bank for children to use in a variety of different contexts. It is referenced in the ‘Year-on-year progression’ document.
Varying sentence types
This worksheet contains a range of different sentence types which then need to be matched with the correct description of that type of sentence. The aim is to help pupils understand different types of sentence and when they might be used.
Varying sentence openings
This is a worksheet for pupils to fill in to help them consider how grammar can be used differently in an opening sentence and the impact this has on the reader.
How to plan writing progression year-on-year
This document is a teaching guide looking at which types of words and what level of grammar should be introduced at each year of the primary curriculum. The document has been updated in line with the 2016 grammar test requirements in England.
Talk for Writing and Kensuke’s Kingdom
Janet Gough, Assistant Headteacher and English Subject Leader at Cockerham Parochial School in Lancashire, explains how to use Talk for Writing techniques to embed language skills within the context of the Michael Morpurgo novel Kensuke’s Kingdom.