The Art of the Sentence. Over the past few years I’ve come to believe more and more strongly in the power of the sentence as a tool for developing proficiency in reading and writing. The fundamental problem, for students who don’t write or read as well as they could, is often that they aren’t good enough at creating sentences that capture the nuances of a complex idea or the relationships of complex ideas and they similarly fail to successfully untangle the nuances and interrelations in such sentences when written by others.
Consider, for example, the sentence I just wrote. Here it is again: The fundamental problem, for students who don’t write or read as well as they could, is often that they aren’t good enough at creating sentences that capture the nuances of a complex idea or the relationships of complex ideas and they similarly fail to successfully untangle the nuances and interrelations in such sentences when written by others. The first few examples come from Lord of the Flies. January 3 Golden Sentence. 50+ iPad Lessons for Exciting Sentences. Alan Peat. LINKING ALAN PEAT SENTENCE TYPES AND LEVELS | Alan Peat's Blog. When I wrote the ‘Exciting Sentences’ book in 2008 I had hoped for, but certainly didn’t expect, such an overwhelmingly positive response.
The approach is a simple one: if you give a sentence type a name (such as ’2A sentences’ = 2 adjectives before a noun) and all staff use the same name then pupils will quickly develop a vocabulary which helps them to analyse sentences in the writing of others AND use a broader range in their own writing. Feedback with regard to the impact of this idea has been forthcoming from schools as close to home as Stoke on Trent and as far away as New Zealand.
Participants at my UK conferences do, however, often ask about the level at which sentences are taught and so, rather than wait until the new sentences book is published in 2013, here are the levels at which I’d INTRODUCE the sentence types. I’ve maintained the same order as the book for ease of use. BOYS. Inevitably there will be debate about levels (quite right too..we don’t move forward without it!) Object moved. Alan Peat Sentences - 4OQ Home Page. Literacy - Alan Peat. 4D516C069018519808AD41A3DDD81369. E-learning for independence. The potential of technology to facilitate independent learning excites me. However, sometimes the tools for creating e-learning resources can lead to overly structured schemes of work which children move through in isolation. For the past few weeks I have been working on using e-learning resources to give children responsibility for their own learning, whilst trying to avoid these pitfalls.
I recently ran a workshop for future school leaders at the National College and, given that my remit was participative technologies, I tried to make it as participative as possible. Throughout the session we used a wide range of online tools to collect the ideas and responses of both people in the room and those taking part online, organised around an online resource created with Google sites. I set up the lesson as a page on our class website, with a clearly defined structure of activities, and a clear objective.
We talk a lot in our school of encouraging ‘independence’ in the learners we work with. E-learning for independence. 2A sentences. Emotion word. BOYS. LIST. 3 ED.