Sentence types - writing new zealand curriculum

A great resource for students, to fine-tune their writing and become confident in writing quality sentences.

Great to use with criteria, and to encourage students to highlight evidence of sentence types, to keep them on track.

Teaching one sentence at a time allows students to explore and write their own examples. We have used these in a structured way, giving set topics, and it brings success to our students every time.

Highly recommend having copies of these, for students to refer back to and using the digital criteria. It will help guide and focus them when they are showing evidence of the sentence types.

NZ Curriculum objectives

LEVEL 2 - writing

Indicators:

• uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning when creating texts
• organises and sequences ideas and information with some confidence
• begins to use a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths.

LEVEL 3 - writing

Indicators:

• organises written ideas into paragraphs with increasing confidence
• organises and sequences ideas and information with increasing confidence
• uses a variety of sentence structures, beginnings, and lengths.

Having a class of many students with Specific Learning challenges (dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, ASD, and dysgraphia) providing writing that motivates and inspires students is key.

This resource has helped many reluctant writers, especially those who lack confidence in ideas. Giving them a topic helps support them starting, as they just practice the sentence types.

Resource includes:

1. 12-page slide with an example of sentence types.
2. PDF example of sentence type assignment.