🎯 WALT (We Are Learning To)

Today we are learning to identify and write simple, compound, and complex sentences.

✅ Success Criteria

I can:

📚 Sentence Types Guide

Simple Sentence: One complete idea with a subject and verb.
Example: The dog barked loudly.

Compound Sentence: Two complete ideas joined by words like and, but, or, so.
Example: The dog barked loudly, and the cat ran away.

Complex Sentence: One main idea plus one dependent idea that starts with words like because, when, if, although.
Example: The dog barked loudly because it saw a stranger.

🔍 Part 1: Identify the Sentence Type

✏️ Part 2: Write Your Own Sentences

Scaffolding help: Start with "The [animal]..." or "My [animal]..."

Scaffolding help: Write one complete idea + and + another complete idea

Scaffolding help: Because [reason], [what happened]

Support option: Complete this starter - "I like school, but..."

🌟 Differentiation Support

Need extra help? Use these sentence starters:

• Simple: "The weather today..." / "My friend..."

• Compound: "I love pizza, and..." / "It was cold, so..."

• Complex: "When I get home..." / "Although it was raining..."