Language & Sentence Games

Objectives

To write sentences with appropriate grammar and punctuation.

Resources

Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3 | Lined paper

Today's Lesson

Spelling

Take the spelling test by asking your student to write the words they have been learning this week.

Main Activity

Language and sentence games are great to include regularly in lessons, and can open up the learner’s mind to new ways of thinking and, therefore, writing. They are also a good way to apply their own existing skills, and their grammar and punctuation skills, which sometimes pose a challenge to learners.

Game 9: New Experiences!

The brain is stimulated by new experiences - it makes us curious and generates language. First-hand experience makes brains grow!

Present your student with a new object every now and again. Perhaps, today, you could start with a small mirror. Other ideas might include: photos, a key, an old watch, a gnarled piece of bark, a pebble…

Ask your student to rapidly draw a picture of the object. Then, it will become a stimulus for writing. To write, you could just brainstorm words and ideas with your student: What does it look like, remind you of? What might it be used for?

Invent five new things you could use it for. What might a Martian think it was? Have some fun together, experimenting with ideas!

Game 10: Playful Writing

Use Kit Wright’s poem ‘The Magic Box’. Read it together with your student.

📄 READ - 'The Magic Box' Poem by Kit Wright

Then, imagine what might be in there. The poem is a great model for stimulating ideas. It can help to discuss what might be in a box forest. Then quickly make a list (the quicker and the longer the better) of things that would be impossible to have in a box - sunsets, a universe, a star, a rhino, a playground, a dream, a memory, a lie, a kangaroo, a rainbow, a scream, etc. Now just make an embellished list.

In the box of impossibilities you will find:

a sunset of crimson and gold,
a universe of whirling minds,
a shivering star,
a charging rhino with skin of metal,
a playground rumour a daydream that comes alive,
a memory of a moment that was cold, a lie like a nettle sting…

WATCH - The Magic Box - Kit Wright (YouTube)

Grammar check

Turn to page 14 in Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3. Work through the information in the purple box at the top of the page.

Clarify that your student understands the way singular nouns are turned into plural nouns in these different ways: +s / +es / change y to i and add es.

Ask your student to complete ‘Focus’, ‘Practice’ and ‘Extension’ on pages 14 and 15.

Citations

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