What it is. Some nouns name things you can touch. Others name ideas — and those are the ones writers need.
Why our test works. If the sentence works just as well with the word taken out, the word is decoration and the child has not really used it. Checking forces the word to carry meaning rather than sit in a slot — the difference between recognizing a word and owning it.
Leans on. Knowing what a noun is — grammar taught it at lesson 11.
Watch for. A child who matches every pair but cannot fill a gap has learned the list, not the words. The CHOOSE rung is where you see it.
Use 3 school words in sentences of your own, and choose which version suits who is reading. The worked example is built on Our topic today is rain., ringing topic. The class reads the teaching page printed at the top of the sheet — our own writing, so a child who was absent can still get the lesson.
You open by saying where this sits — what it follows and what it is part of — in one sentence, and then you give them the reason it matters, in your own words, for about ten seconds. Before anything new, sixty seconds of retrieval on U2 set 1: ask, take the answers from boards rather than hands so you see all thirty, and do not re-teach — note who has lost it and carry on.
Then you do one yourself, on screen, one click per piece: the word topic alone first, and you wait — let them look at it before you give them the meaning. Then what it is about arrives beside it, and you point from one to the other with your hand. Then the sentence underneath: Our topic today is rain.. Three clicks, three things said. Do not let the whole slide arrive at once — a slide that arrives whole gives the answer before the question is asked.
The We-do is the main whiteboard moment of the lesson — short answers, boards up on your signal, every child visible at once. Class rewrites two everyday sentences into school-word, then judges one case where the everyday version is BETTER. Discuss in pairs using the frames. If the answer is a whole sentence rather than a word, take it on the printed sheet instead, because a sentence written on a whiteboard is written once and destroyed.
They read the teaching page — printed at the top of today's sheet — with you, either read-aloud or FASE, never round robin. Stop at the worked example and let them look at it.
Exit directions in full, standing still, before anyone moves. Then they work alone through the five steps — match, choose, frame, write their own. The frames stay on screen while they write: Use the frame as often as you need it today. Say both halves of that — the frame is there if they need it, and it is better writing without it. Walk and note who used it; that is your group for tomorrow, not a mark against them today.
You close on the exit direction — Say one sentence using topic. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: Say it, then write it.
A child who matches every pair but cannot fill a gap has learned the list, not the words. The CHOOSE rung is where you see it.