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Infer the meaning of words from the example sentences.

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Follow the instructions from the Powerpoint and the teacher.

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What are some rules for using commas?

Why might it be important to think about how we put our sentences together?

How can having a variety of sentence structures improve your writing?

What does it mean to infer?

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Now get a partner to read through your paragraph and check that it meets the rules. Also ask them to check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Do they think it flows well? Can they suggest any improvements?

Once you have shared your paragraphs and any suggestions, look through it again carefully yourself.

If you're working on paper, use those blank lines you left before to go through your paragraph line-by-line and think about every single word choice. Try to make at least two changes to every single line that you feel will improve your writing. You don't have to follow the rules as you're going through this second time.

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Childcare groups - Rules for your 'slow writing' paragraph about yourself / your ambition

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Childcare groups - Rules for your 'slow writing' paragraph about yourself / your ambition

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Line 1... must begin with a preposition, eg. "before" "after" "under" "over" "inside" "near" "around"
Line 2... must include a fact.
Line 3... must include a personal experience / story / example to demonstrate the fact from line 2.
Line 4... must include a list of three or more, using commas.
Line 5... must use commas to add some additional information (a dependent clause) and be more than 30 words
Line 6... Must be exactly 10 words long.

Remember, you can use the lines in the 'Day in the life...' document for examples.

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Save the below article to your student area.

Use Adobe PDF tools to highlight every comma in the text. For each comma, add a comment explaining why you think that comma has been used there.

After you have done this for each comma, draft a list of rules for where commas should be used.

This is quite a long article, but you only need to focus on the commas for now. Just get as far as you can

Extension task: what other punctuation has been used on this page, and why?

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ICT Groups - Rules for your 'slow writing' paragraph about yourself / your ambition

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ICT Groups - Rules for your 'slow writing' paragraph about yourself / your ambition

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Line 1... must include a comma followed by either 'but' or 'even though'.
Line 2... must begin with a time-based adverb, eg. 'currently', 'eventually', 'Someday', etc.
Line 3... must use a simile (similes usually include the words 'like' or 'as', eg. "as big as the moon," "as yellow as corn")
Line 4... must use brackets and an exclamation mark to add a surprising fact or piece of information.
Line 5... must use commas to add some additional information (a dependent clause) and be more than 30 words
Line 6... Must be exactly 10 words long.

Remember, you can use the lines in the 'Day in the life...' document for examples.

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Tell me a little more about yourself and/or what you would like to do in the future, or what your hobbies are. I don't mind too much what you write about, as we're going to focus on how you're writing it.

You can work in WordPad, or on a piece of lined paper. If you're working on line paper, it's important that you leave a blank line after every line you write.

This activity is called 'slow writing' because I want you to really take your time over every line.

You're only going to write one paragraph of six lines, but I want each line to follow the guide below.

Use the numbered lines in the 'Day in the life...' article to help you.

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Save the below article to your student area.

Use Adobe PDF tools to highlight every comma in the text. For each comma, add a comment explaining why you think that comma has been used there.

After you have done this for each comma, draft a list of rules for where commas should be used.

Extension task: what other punctuation has been used on this page, and why?

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By the end of this session, you should be able to:

•Collaborate to create a class charter of agreed rules and expectations for the class.

•Identify at least three rules for correct comma usage, using example articles.

•Explain why it might be helpful to vary your sentence types and structures when writing.

•Craft a ‘slowly-written’ paragraph about your ambitions or yourself in general.