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Overview for YR Summer Term Part 1 and Part 2
A SENTENCE MAKES SENSE

Truth to Teach (Source)

Heart concept: Father’s Love

• To reinforce what a sentence is and how it is punctuated.

• To learn that a sentence makes sense.

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review the last lesson.

2. Dress a child up as Noah and explain that God spoke some messages to Noah. Noah was obedient and
heard the messages clearly because God used the correct words to make sentences. The children may
like to recall some of the messages that God gave to Noah. Stress that Noah’s obedience to God’s
message saved his family from the flood.

3. Have these messages jumbled on the board ensuring that the children recognise words like – ark,
make, take, your, family, animals, food. Use a capital letters and full stops to give the children clues.

Make an ark.
Take your family on the ark.
Take the animals on the ark.
Take food on the ark.

4. Let the children sort the sentences to find the messages. For less able children have these or similar
sentences in pots, as in Lesson 1, for the children to lay out on the floor or on a table.

5. Let them complete the worksheet to consolidate their learning. They could write an imaginary
message for Noah too, eg Take some water. Look after the animals. Stay on the ark until it stops
raining. Send out a dove to find land.

6. Gather back to share the children’s written messages. Emphasise that ‘a sentence makes sense’.

Learning for Life (Fulfilment)

1. The children should be more confident in identifying and writing sentences, realising that a sentence
makes sense.

2. They should appreciate that some messages we receive may be life-saving just as they were for Noah
and his family.