Ideas to help your child improve with writing
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Can you use these conjunctions/joining words to make your sentence longer?
because
but
then
after that
so
E.g. The little girl skipped to school because she was excited to see her friends.
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Can you check your sentence for punctuation?
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Can you recognise different types of sentences:
.,““!?
How terrible!- Exclamation sentence
Drop the eggs. – Command (verb at the beginning of the sentence)
I’ve broken an egg. – Statement
How will I get another for our breakfast? - Question
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To know what a contracted word with an apostrophe stands for:
don’t: do not
she’ll: she will
I’ve: I have
can’t: cannot
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To know when to use an apostrophe for possession:
Sarah’s hatThe cat’s collar
Miss Webster’s coat.
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Use present and past tense correctly:
e.g What is the past tense ofwalk - walked
skip- skipped eat- ate sing- sang
go- went
run - ran sit- satclimb - climbed fly- flew
see- saw
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Know the difference between:
Noun- name of something.
Knows that proper nouns (days of the week, month, people’s names and places)
begin with a capital letter.
Adjective- describing word(usually describes a noun)
Windy, cold weather.Happy, smiley boy.
Verb- An action word
Walking, sitting, read, pick, run
Adverb- describes a verb or adjective
Angrily, quietly, quickly
Eg.The quiet boy slowly picked up the book and began to read with interest.
Adjective
noun
adverb
verb
verb