Poster Sentence For Class 4

The word order poster is a talking point rather than a label: the same six words in two orders give a class two grammatical sentences and only one likely meaning

Putting the simple and compound posters side by side sets The dog barked. against The lizard danced and the kookaburra laughed., which is the whole distinction in two examples

A kookaburra appears in the compound sentence example so students may need a word about the bird before the grammar

The labels use plain wording — subject - what, what is happening, circumstances — rather than subject, verb and adverbial, which suits lower primary but is worth reconciling with the terms used in later years

Each poster carries exactly one example, so a class can be asked to supply a second of the same kind and pin it up alongside

Naming the parts of a sentence — the first poster labels The bird swooped down from the tree. as subject - what, what is happening and circumstances, giving students named parts to point at during sentence work.

Spotting the joining word — the compound sentence poster marks clause, conjunction and clause across The lizard danced and the kookaburra laughed.