The children swung into their grammar learning with the help of our cheeky class text, There’s a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom by James Sellick. After the teacher modelled the difference between command and statement sentences, the children worked together to create a class list before putting their new skills to the test.
Armed with whiteboard pens instead of pencils, the children transformed their tables into giant writing spaces, where commands and statements appeared almost as quickly as a mischievous Rang-Tan could cause trouble! They eagerly matched sentences to pictures from the story, sharing ideas, making speedy edits, and enjoying lots of laughter along the way. To round off the lesson, the children confidently sorted command and statement sentences into the correct categories and explained their choices with impressive reasoning.
Safe to say, the Rang-Tan may have caused plenty of mischief in the story, but our young grammarians were in complete control!
