TSL 3073TEACHING WRITING SKILLS FOR ESL PRIMARY

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Tutorial Week 3

Tutorial Task Week 3

Brainstorm in groups suitable activities to develop sentence

building.

What is sentence?

What is sentence?

• A sentence is a group of words which starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!).

• A sentence contains or implies a predicate and a subject.

Subject Predicate Sentence

Types of sentences?

• two independent clauses + coordinating conjunction.

• She cooked /and /he cleaned.

• Dependent clause + independent clause.

• My mother likes dogs/ that / don’t bark.

• Contain only one independent clause.

• I / drink / coffee.

• 2 independent clause + dependent clause.

• I would have purchased the cheese/ that/ you like,/but/ it was too expensive. Compound

– complex sentence

Simple sentenc

e

Compound sentence

Complex

sentence

Activities to develop sentence building.

Build Sentence Puzzles1.

1. Ask the students to copy the sentence onto lined paper.Eg: Sam likes to read about dogs.

2. Then, cut the sentences into pieces and mix them up.

3. After that, have students read each word aloud and sequence it in appropriate order.

4. Ask the students to read the sentence once they finished putting the sentences together.

Expanding Sentences2.

1. Teacher builds a short sentences with two or three of the words.

2. Teacher shows the children how to expand the sentence by using word cards.Eg: I see books. I see many blue books.

3. Ask the children to expand the sentences by putting different colour of paper cards.

4. When they have completed a sentence, have them read it out.

Write the middle word of the sentence on the board, and then give the class the two words that go one either side of it in the sentence. The students' task is to decide which goes in front and which goes behind.

If they choose correctly, write the words in their places on either side, then give them the next pair, then another, and so on until the sentence is complete.

Thus, if the original sentence was 'Mary said she wished she had a big new red Mercedes', start with 'had', the first pair would be 'she' and 'a', and the second 'big' and 'wished'.

To make it competitive, they lose a life for each wrong decision. If they lose three lives, they have lost the game.

Begin in the Middle3.

Mary said she wished she had a big new red Mercedes

had

__ __ __ wished she had a big __ __ __

Thank You~