What it is. Some words simply go together, and the pairing has to be learned rather than worked out.
Why our test works. Collocation cannot be reasoned out. *Do a study* breaks no rule of grammar and no rule of meaning — it is simply not what is said, and a reader hears it immediately. This is where a multilingual writer loses marks with every individual word correct, so the test is deliberately about MEMORY of hearing it, not about logic: if they have not heard it, they must look it up rather than guess.
Leans on. Grades 1-4 built single words and phrases. Pairings are new.
Watch for. Do not accept a near-pairing because the meaning is clear. *Make a conclusion* is understandable and wrong, and letting it pass is how it sets for good.
Match 7 academic words to their everyday partners and use each in a sentence frame. The worked example is built on They carried out research on soil., ringing carry out research. The class reads Writing Book 5, p.59 — our own page, 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 U10 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 carry out research alone first, and you wait — let them look at it before you give them the meaning. Then do a study arrives beside it, and you point from one to the other with your hand. Then the sentence underneath: They carried out research on soil.. 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 their notebooks instead, because a sentence written on a whiteboard is written once and destroyed.
They open Writing Book 5 to page 59 and read it with you. 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: You may use the frame for two of your three. Try the third without it. 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 carry out research. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: Verbs carry their own companions.
Do not accept a near-pairing because the meaning is clear. *Make a conclusion* is understandable and wrong, and letting it pass is how it sets for good.