Well, hello again! Our first post since February - it's been an interesting time (COVID19)!
Over August, we've been doing some reading.
Most recently, we have read 'Dual Coding With Teachers' and have used some of what we learned from that reading to adapt a resource we made earlier in 2020.
At a PiXL Event towards the end of 2019, we came across the revelation that 'commas have five uses in written English'.
So, combining both the information from PiXL and Oliver Caviglioli, we created this:
We're going to give it a go in our Year Six classrooms this coming year. We hope it'll improve the accuracy with which our children use commas when writing.
Firstly, they need to know the 'five uses' and then link them to the images.
Next, we hope the codes can then be used to jog memories and used as teaching points.
We would be the last to claim to be English specialists, so if you have any feedback on our understanding of this element of English, please let us know.
An up-to-date copy of this resource, if it is changed, will always be here. (Typo corrected).
