Sentence Types.
It is expected that the children should be able to write a variety of texts which include the following four sentence types..
Statements: Statements are sentences which tell you something. They end with a full stop.
Eg.
When they arrived there were lots of people at the park.
Questions: Questions are sentences that ask you something. They usually end with a question mark.
Eg.
What did you have for lunch?
Commands: Commands are sentences that tell you to do something. They are often urgent or angry and can be very short.
Eg.
Put your feet down. or Stop doing that.
Exclamations: An exclamation is a sentence beginning with 'What' or 'How.' Its a full sentence containing a verb, which ends with an exclamation mark.
Eg.
How kind of him to do that!
or
What a dangerous mountain to climb!
Homophones.
Are two or more words which have the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.
Eg.
there their
blew blue
Common homophones which the children use can be found illustrated in the documents below. These are displayed in our classroom as a resource the children can refer to throughout their writing.
Contractions.
Similar to contract meaning to squeeze together, a contraction is when two words are made shorter by taking out some letters, replacing them with an apostrophe.
Eg.
is not - isn't
The 'o' has been taken out of the words and replaced by the apostrophe.
I am - I'm
The 'a' has been taken out of the words and replaced by the apostrophe.