Crateclass

Year 1 · English · Writing

Writing sentences

Say a sentence, write it with spaces between the words, a capital letter and a full stop, and read it back to check.

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Everything for this topic in one place

  • 3D lesson: Writing sentences — Count the words in a sentence, find the naming and doing words, fix capital letters and full stops, add spaces and choose words for yesterday and tomorrow.
  • Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
  • Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
  • Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.

Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 1 (Years 0–3), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.

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