TSL 3073

TEACHING WRITING SKILLS FOR ESL PRIMARY

CLASSROOM

Tutorial Week 3

Tutorial Task
Week 3

Brainstorm in groups
suitable activities to
develop sentence
building.

What is sentence?

What is sentence?
A sentence is a group of words which
starts with a capital letter and ends
with a full stop (.), question mark (?)
or exclamation mark (!).
A sentence contains or implies a
predicate and a subject.
Subject

Predicat
e

Sentence

Types of
sentences?

 2 independent clause +
dependent clause.
I would have purchased
the cheese/ that/ you
like,/but/ it was too
Compou
expensive.
nd
complex
sentenc
e
Complex
sentence

Dependent clause +
independent clause.
My mother likes dogs/
that / dont bark.

Contain only one

independent clause.
I / drink / coffee.
Simple
sentence
Compoun
d
sentence
two independent
clauses + coordinating
conjunction.
She cooked /and /he
cleaned.

Activities to
develop sentence
building.

1.

Build Sentence
Puzzles

1. Ask the students to copy the sentence

onto lined paper.
Eg: Sam likes to read about dogs.
2. Then, cut the sentences into pieces
and mix them up.
3. After that, have students read each
word aloud and sequence it in
appropriate order.
4. Ask the students to read the
sentence once they finished putting the
sentences together.

2. Expanding Sentences
1. Teacher builds a short sentences with
two or three of the words.
2. Teacher shows the children how to
expand the sentence by using word
cards.
Eg: I see books.
I see many blue
books.
3. Ask the children to expand the
sentences by putting different colour of
paper cards.
4. When they have completed a
sentence, have them read it out.

Begin
in
the
Middle
3.
Write the middle word of the sentence on the board, and
then give the class the two words that go one either side of
it in the sentence. The students' task is to decide which
goes in front and which goes behind.
If they choose correctly, write the words in their places
on either side, then give them the next pair, then
another, and so on until the sentence is complete.
Thus, if the original sentence was 'Mary said she wished she
had a big new red Mercedes', start with 'had', the first pair
would be 'she' and 'a', and the second 'big' and 'wished'.

To make it competitive, they lose a life for each wrong

decision. If they lose three lives, they have lost the game.

Mary said she wished she

had
Mercedes

a big new red

had

__ __ __ wished she had a big __ __

__

Thank You~