Resources needed: Sentence cards halved into beginnings and endings. A selection of words with their synonyms and antonyms, e.g. big, large, small, tiny A list of Initial clauses for step 4. Begin with some work on connectives. Give all children half a sentence, either a beginning (We […]
Resources needed: Personal dictionaries (one per child) Unusual words written on cards Word meaning chart Unusual word with three possible meanings. Explain to the class that they will be expanding their vocabulary and have a brief discussion with the class as to why that is so important, e.g. to […]
Resources needed: Dice Who/why/where/when/how/? stickers List of main clauses Large pieces of paper Packets of Post-it notes Give one of the dice to each pair of children and ask them to stick the little stickers over the numbers. Now show a main clause to the children and ask […]
Resources needed: List of common prefixes and suffixes One dictionary per child Give each group of four children a common prefix such as ‘re’, ‘bi’, ‘dis’, ‘mis’, ‘pre’, ‘over’ and ‘un’. Ask them to list as many words containing that prefix as they can in 5 minutes. No dictionaries […]
