TUTORIAL QUESTION

Activities To Develop

Sentence Building And

Paragraph Writing

WORD CHARTS

ACTIVITY1:

BUILDING SENTENCES BY USING “WORD CHARTS”

Goal: Student will be able to create subject-

verb-object sentences with adjectives and adverbs.

Activity: in written form, combine the nouns and verbs to create logical sentences.

i.e.: The big waves crashed loudly.

The young children played.

Building sentences by using “word charts”

ACTIVITY 2: PARAGRAPH HAMBURGER

A writing organizer that visually outlines the key components of a paragraph. Topic sentence, detail sentences, and a closing sentence are the main elements of a good paragraph, and each one forms a different "piece" of the hamburger.

WHAT?

WHY?

• It helps students organize their ideas into a cohesive paragraph.

• It helps show the organization or structure of concepts/idea.

• It demonstrates in a concrete way how information is related.

HOW?

Discuss the three main components of a paragraph,

or story.The introduction (top bun)The internal or supporting

information (the filling)The conclusion (bottom bun)

Ask students to write a topic sentence that clearly

indicates what the whole paragraph is going to be

about.

Have students compose several supporting

sentences that give more information about the

topic.

Instruct students on ways to write a concluding sentence

that restates the topic sentence.

EXAMPLE OF WORKSHEET

ACTIVITY 3 :

SUBTITUTION TABLE

A substitution table is built on a given sentence pattern.It consists of several text columns, each one of which is formed by words that can play the same role within the sentence.

WHAT?

Young children have very short attention span especially when it comes to teaching them to write; even more so when you teach them to write purely using words and sentences for them to look at. Children, especially aged seven to nine (level one in primary school) need something else other than alphabets on the board for them to look at to get them interested in writing.

WHY USE

?

One simple way to get them to write, let's say about someone, is to introduce the character(s) complete with pictures that they can identify with. And in the case of writing using a substitution table, two sets of characters can be introduced and be used interchangeably.

HOW?

One simple way to get them to write, let's say about someone, is to

introduce the character(s) complete with pictures that they can

identify with.  And in the case of writing using a substitution table,

two sets of characters can be introduced and be used

interchangeably.

ACTIVITY 4: FILLING IN LINKERS IN A GIVEN

PARAGRAPH

WHAT? A word that connects one

sentence with another sentence in a paragraph.

WHY? To ensure cohesion in a

paragraph To relate and organize previous

paragraph/sentence with a new one

To clearly differentiate one idea with another in a sentence.

HOW?

ACTIVITIES 5: FRAMED PARAGRAPH ACTIVITIES

OBJECTIVES The objective of the Framed

Paragraph Activity is writing using a “frame” (outline or template) to write a paragraph that contains a main idea (topic sentence), supporting details, and a summary statement (conclusion).

Paragraph writing in the context of academic tasks is excellent practice for exam questions and are an excellent classroom assessment.

EXAMPLESReproducible graphic organizers and paragraph frames are provided for these skills:

Generic Paragraph Organizers(Title, Introduction (&Topic Sentence), �(4) Details, & Conclusion)

Conclusions � Historical Setting � Predicting � Details � Main Idea � Sequencing � Cause & Effect � Compare/Contrast � Reading Critically: Visualization � Author’s Purpose � Event Map � Problem/ Solution � Characterization � Symbolism � Conflict (Internal, External, Conflict Dissection)�

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