1. Writing Assessment Foci
CW Writing a Horror Story: Adjustment
Friday 19th October 2012
19/10/12
Learning Objectives:
To be able to use a variety of sentence types for clarity and effect
To be able to write an adjustment paragraph
STARTER: Replace the missing vowels.
Simple Sentence((5)
Compound Sentence (6)
Complex Sentence (5)
Ext: Write an example of each.

2. Write down the underlined words in bold!
Learning outcomes
Core
Extension
Killer
To be able to identify the three types of sentences
To be able to create complex sentences
To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing
Write down the underlined words in bold!

3. MATCH THE WORD WITH THE DEFINITON AND EXAMPLE
Name
Definition
Example
Simple
A sentence containing main and a subordinate clause (one that doesn’t make sense on its own)
It began to rain heavily so the boy ran quickly home.
Compound
A sentence containing one clause and verb
As it began to rain heavily, the boy ran quickly home.
Complex
Two simple sentences joined by a connective
The boy ran home.

4. ANSWERS Name Definition Example Simple
A sentence containing one clause and verb
The boy ran home.
Compound
Two simple sentences joined by a connective
It began to rain heavily so the boy ran quickly home.
Complex
A sentence containing main and a subordinate clause (one that doesn’t make sense on its own)
As it began to rain heavily, the boy ran quickly home.

5. Learning outcomes Core Extension Killer
To be able to identify the three types of sentences
To be able to create complex sentences
To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing

6. How many different sentences can you make from these words?

7. Did you get these? What type of sentences are they?
Although he shouted as loudly as possible, his friends still couldn't hear him.
His friends still couldn’t hear him, although he shouted as loudly as possible.
His friends, although he shouted as loudly as possible, still couldn’t hear him.

8. WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: Model
Because it started to thunder, we took refuge in the abandoned house. So that we could escape the storm, we

9. WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: In Pairs
While the figure moved closer, ... Because ...., ....

10. WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: Independently
As the bats circled overhead, ... While there was ....., .... Because .... , .....

11. Learning outcomes Core Extension Killer
To be able to identify the three types of sentences
To be able to create complex sentences
To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing

12. FIND AND LABEL THE DIFFERENT SENTENCE TYPES.
1. Why has the writer starter with a simple sentence?
I’m running. My chest is tight and sore. Breath rasping and whistling in my lungs. Branches whip against my face. Brambles tear at my legs and arms. There is a voice screaming. Out loud. The sound ripping through the trees, screaming and screaming. It’s my voice ‘Amy! Amy!’ Now I’m back at the back stream and the solid wooden fencing has been torn aside. Blasted apart as if some careless giant had passed by and trodden on it. I stare at the wood, not splintered or broken, but melted. Dissolved and warped. Curled aside to make a small space. Space enough for a child to walk through. What could do that? What power is there that would leave that mark? I hesitate, feeling the first great lurch of fear for myself. ‘Amy?’ I cry out. Beyond me the gaping dark of the cemetery. There is a soft shudder in my head. A strange flicker which fastens on my fear. Nothing calling for me this time. No whispers in my face tonight. (From ‘Whispers in the Graveyard’ by Theresa Breslin)
2. What is the subordinate clause?
3. Why has the writer added it?
4. What type of sentences has the writer used here?
5. What is the effect on the reader?

13. Write your own adjustment paragraph using simple and complex sentences
V C O P E A R M S

14. RED PEN YOUR WORK Label two examples of each type of sentence.
Explain why you have used them:
I used a ________ sentence so that my reader would feel....
I used a ________ sentence in order to ....

15. PLENARY Core Extension Killer
To be able to identify the three types of sentences
To be able to create complex sentences
To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing