Planet Wobble

Sentence Activities

The sentence grids are writing grids from which children can build sentences in Clicker Writer. They can be used to enable an individual to practice using the key vocabulary they have experienced in the story or with a group so that the teacher can focus on the key elements of sentences.

Some ways in which the Sentence grids can be used with a group are:

• Model the sentence for the group.
• Ask different children to write the sentences on the screen.
• Write the sentence incorrectly and ask the children where you have gone wrong or how the sentence could be improved.
• Ask the children to read the words separately.
• Ask the children to read the sentence from the model in Sentences 1 and Sentences 2; the model is on the grid in Sentences 1 and accessed using the 'eye' button in Sentences 2.
• Get the children to rehearse the sentences first; they can do this by copying the model or by using the speech to listen to the separate words in order.
• Talk about how the sentence should start - ask a child to find the word with the capital letter.
• Talk about completing the sentence with a period and ask a child to put the period into Clicker Writer to hear the sentence read back.
• Print out the grids and get the children to write the sentences on paper.
• Cut up the words in the printed grid and arrange them in order.
• Try alternatives within the sentence in the missing words grids and discuss why they do or don't work.
• Discuss the role of word types within sentences and consider alternatives which have not been offered in the grid, for example alternative verbs.
• Write the sentence in Clicker Writer but type in alternative words from the keyboard.
• Delete a focus word from the cell in the grid (for example a character name or a part of speech) and write the sentence collecting suggestions for the empty cell.

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“The range and quantity of computer activities enables all the children to benefit from working to their own potential and at their own level.” Jo Cummings, Technology Coordinator, Trial School