This activity is the fourth of five levels which exploring how word order affects meaning in a sentence. In this activity, order a set of words into four different orders to make sentences.
Learning objectives/outcomes: England:NLS: Y4 T2 S3: To understand the significance of word order e.g some re-orderings destroy meaning; some make sense but change meaning; sentences can be reordered to retain meaning.
Y5, T1, S1: to investigate word order by examining how far the order of words in sentences can be changed, which words or groups of words can be moved into a different order.
Y5, T2, S1: to re-order simple sentences noting the changes which are required in word order. NC: KS2: Writing: Language structure a: word classes and the grammatical functions of words, including nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.
Language structure c: The grammar of complex sentences, including clauses, phrases and connectives