Uplevelling Sentences!

This engaging and highly-purposeful lesson has been designed to enable children to uplevel their basic sentences, creating more precise, elaborate passages.

The lesson takes the children through the process of contemplating vocabulary choices within each of the main word classes, before considering sentence variety in terms of length, form and order.

Children learn through:
-Defining what uplevelling is, and understanding how some sentences can be too vague and basic;
-Considering how a model example can be improved through the use of more precise nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs;
-Investigating how conjunctions and fronted adverbials can be utilised in order to change sentence types, lengths and orders for clarity and effect;
-Employing the strategies that they have learnt to create and uplevel their own series of sentences based on a visual stimulus;
-Evaluating their partner’s writing attempts, endeavouring to find further appropriate opportunities for uplevelling.

The resource pack is comprised of a colourful and comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, which offers a step-by-step guide through the entirety of the lesson. There is nothing to print, simply download and go!

The lesson was originally created for children in upper KS2, however with minor adaptations could easily be suitable for those in lower KS2 or lower KS3.