Introduction to reading and writing sentences Y1 Year 1

These resources introduce the concept of a sentence and show how to write a sentence.

POWERPOINTS:

Introduction to sentences: Explains what sentences and punctuation are. It reinforces the importance of capital letters, full stops, question marks or exclamation marks, and spaces in-between words.

How to compose a sentence: Introduces the concept of sentence writing, and how the children should think about and then say the sentence before they write it down, remembering to read through and check their work when finished.

“I can” sentences: simple sentences for the children to read. The vocabulary gets progressively harder, from simple CVC words to using long vowel graphemes and blends.

Jake’s Full Stop: A story demonstrating how important it is to put full stops in the right places.

Picture sentences: Find the correct sentence out of four to match the picture.

Joining sentences with ‘and’: Demonstrates how text can become more interesting when ‘and’ is used to join sentences. Ends with sentences for the children to join with the word and.

Words that fit: Find the words that can be substituted in the sentence.
Sentence building: Jumbled up words that need arranging into sentences. Suitable for a class writing activity.

WORKSHEETS (PDF) - to accompany the PowerPoints
Worksheets: 15 different worksheets to accompany the lessons, including -
A checklist when writing sentences
Finish the ‘I can’ sentences
Write the words that fit
Write sentences about a picture
Punctuation story
Match the sentences
Cut and make a sentence
The worksheets are in both colour and black and white.

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