Sentence building resource

This Sentence starter worksheet is designed to improve literacy and sentence formation. The worksheet is designed to help students generate ideas for sentence building. It contains an image of a busy city, five sentence starters and a word bank corresponding to the image. It is suitable for KS2 students and KS3 students needing literacy intervention or with SEN learning needs.

How learners are supported:
The sentence building activities allow students to formulate sentences according to their own ability.
Provides scaffolding for sentence building using the picture as a stimulus.

Differentiation Suggestion for more able learners :
Students can create their own word bank
Students can write a first-person account of what it would be like to drive through or work in this city.
Pupils can offer directions to a person wanting to get to another part of the city.
In pairs students can create sentence starters for each other to finish.
What works particularly well with this sentence building resource is to show the picture to the students before giving them the worksheet. Allow them to create their own word banks. Then compare the words they came up with to the vocabulary in the word bank on the resource. Any surplus words can be used to create new sentence starters or for more ideas to build on their sentences.