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 you can point at it, it is a thing — dog, cup, door. If you cannot point at it but you can still talk about it, it is an idea — topic, reason, part. Both are nouns; the second kind is what writing runs on. The test sorts the two KINDS of noun, which is what a child needs here.
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.
Match 3 school words to their everyday partners and use each in a sentence frame. The worked example is built on The reason ice melts is heat., ringing reason. 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.
Then you do one yourself, on screen, one click per piece: the word reason alone first, and you wait — let them look at it before you give them the meaning. Then why arrives beside it, and you point from one to the other with your hand. Then the sentence underneath: The reason ice melts is heat.. 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 matches each item to its partner aloud, then uses the frames in pairs. Every child says at least one frame. 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 reason. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: Why, what comes first, how much — all ideas.
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.