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Level 3 Distance Learning, August 2020

WALT: craft well-built sentences

Writing

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TASK 1: SIX SENTENCE STORY

On this slide, write a story using ONLY six sentences. ��Sentence 1: Introduce the main character�Sentence 2: Describes where the character lived�Sentence 3: Describes where the character’s special ability�Sentence 4: Describes the character’s problem�Sentence 5: Explain how the character was feeling about the problem�Sentence 6: Explain how the character solved their problem

Do your sentences start in different ways? Are your sentences of different lengths? (Here’s an example to look at it to help you start, you can copy it and use it as a template, remove the writing there and replace with yours!)

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TASK 2: QUICK WRITE

�Create WRITER’S NOTEBOOK. Make a new slide.�Copy over these sentences below. You have 15 minutes to revise them, add/take away to improve them one by one.��THINK ABOUT:�Do my sentences begin in different ways?�Are my sentences different lengths?�Are my sentences built with grammatically correct?�Have I used transition words like but, and, so to connect parts of sentences?

�I have a broken leg. I feel terrible. I can’t sleep. I’m restless. I’m grouchy. I’m not a good patient. I wish I could walk without crutches. I hate having a broken leg.

2. Six-sentence story