Suitable for editing stations for Years 4, 5 and 6
Punctuation Park
Adverbial Avenue
Hyphens-on-the-Hill
Spelling Square
Thesaurus Street
Speech Central
Semi-Colon Common
Tense Terrace
Relative Row
Sense Circus
Minor Sentence: an incomplete sentence that still makes sense. It might a word or phrase used as a sentence, but which doesn’t have all the grammatical parts (subject + verb).
Ambiguous words or phrases that are used to create an impression that something has been said (is fact / true) when it is actually vague or misleading (sometimes called ‘weasel words’).
Writing Toolkit for Year 5 - a useful toolkit for display / use as a teaching aid. Just as a mechanic or engineer has to ‘select the right tool for the right job’, an
effective writer chooses the appropriate tool to create an effect on their reader.
Consider how safe Elizabethan times were from their views on crime and punishment.
Match crimes, e.g. “Tobias stands accused of stealing birds’ eggs
Details of the crime: Tobias, who is poor and hungry, stole the eggs place during the day.”
to a suitable punishment, e.g. “removal of body parts.”