Year 7 Grammar lessons: Spring term
L1: What is a simple sentence? Why are
simple sentences used? (Revision)
L4: What is a main clause? What is a
subordinate clause? What is a complex
sentence with embedded clauses?
LO
L1: What is a
simple sentence?
Why are simple
sentences used?
Homework
Students choose
one picture to
construct a
paragraph using
simple sentences
for effect.
L2: What is a compound sentence?
L5: What is a complex sentence? What is
a subordinating conjunction?
Starter
Students copy
date and title
Do it now task!
Vocabulary test
L3: To be able to identify and use
commas within a list
L6: Grammar checkpoint
Introduction
Development
Recap definition of Explain to
a simple sentence. students that
being able to
Students identify
identify a simple
the subject and
sentence is good
verb in a range of but being able to
simple sentences. comment on its
Feedback.
effect is important.
Read an extract
from ‘Wonder’.
Students identify
simple sentences
from within the
passage.
Feedback.
Students use a
visual stimulus to
describe a
character in a
particular situation
using simple
Read through first
passage from
‘Stormcatchers’.
Explain that
simple sentences
have been used
here to create
tension. Model
the first example
before students
explore three
further sentences,
explaining how
they help to create
Plenary
What is a subject?
What is a verb?
What is a simple
sentence?
Why are simple
sentences used?
sentences.
Feedback.
tension.
Feedback.
Introduce students
to text and how
simple sentences
have been used
for emotive
impact. Students
explore three
simple sentences
and their emotive
impact before
considering their
overall impact.
Feedback.
Complete a class
reading of an
information text
and the use of
simple sentences
to convey
information.
Students identify
five simple
sentences and the
information that is
being conveyed.
Feedback.
L2: What is a
compound
sentence?
Students re-draft
paragraph from 1st
homework to
incorporate
compound
sentences.
Students copy
date and title
Recap: What is a
simple sentence?
Do it now task!
Vocabulary test
Read through
definition and
example of a
compound
sentence.
Introduce students
to three different
co-ordinating
conjunctions with
a general
overview of their
purpose:
Compound
Students explore a sentences using
range of
‘and’ to express
compound
similar ideas.
sentences,
identifying the 2
Compound
simple sentences, sentences using
the subject, the
‘but’ to express
verb and the
contrasting ideas.
linking
conjunction.
Compound
Feedback.
sentences using
‘so’ to express the
consequence of
one action on
another.
Students read
through a passage
and identify the
compound
sentences before
exploring what the
co-ordinating
Show students a
selection of
sentences with
one of three coordinating
conjunctions at the
end. Students
finish the
sentences,
ensuring the
relationship
between the two
simple sentences
is as it should be.
Feedback.
Plenary: How
does a compound
sentence differ
from a simple
sentence? Why
do we use the coordinating
conjuctions ‘and’,
‘but’ and ‘so’?
conjunction tells
them. Feedback.
sentences.
L3: To be able to
identify and use
commas to
separate items in
a list.
Students insert
commas into a
number of
sentences.
Students construct
three sentences
using commas in a
list to describe
three of the
characters from
Wonder.
SAMLearning:
simple and
compound
sentences
Students copy
date and title
Do it now task!
Vocabulary test
Recap questions:
What is a subject?
What is a verb?
What is a simple
sentence? How
does a compound
sentence differ
from a simple
sentence?
Feedback
responses.
Show students a
Plenary question:
picture stimulus.
Comma focus in
Students create
today’s lesson.
sentences
containing
commas in a list to
describe different
features of the
picture.
Feedback.
Students identify
simple and
compound
sentences from
within a passage.
Extending:
Students identify
the effect of these
sentences.
Students construct
a descriptive
paragraph of
writing using
commas in a list
but simple and
compound
sentences as well,
using the picture
stimulus.
Recap commas
and the multiple
purposes that
commas serve.
Recap commas to
Students selfassess their work,
identifying in the
margin where they
have used the
separate items in
a list. Students
identify where the
commas should
go in a number of
sentences.
Feedback.
L4: What is a main
clause? What is a
subordinate
clause? What is a
complex sentence
with embedded
clauses?
Students add in
the commas to the
complex
sentences before
identifying the
main and the
subordinate
clauses.
Students then redraft their
paragraph
incorporating
complex
sentences with
embedded
clauses.
Students copy
date and title
Do it now task!
Vocabulary test
Recap questions:
What is a simple
sentence? What
is a compound
sentence?
above sentence
structures.
Feedback,
examples of
students’ work.
Students explore a
grid of clauses.
Students identify
which of the
clauses are main
and which of the
Introduce complex clauses are
sentences with an subordinate.
embedded clause.
Model example.
Students then use
the clauses to
Students identify
form complex
the main and
sentences with
subordinate
embedded
clauses in a
clauses.
number of
complex
Feedback
sentences.
students’
Feedback.
responses.
Students re-draft
complex
sentences with
Students read
through a passage
and identify the
simple, compound
and complex
sentences with
embedded
clauses.
Students find at
least one example
of each and
explain how they
know it is the
particular
sentence type.
E.g. simple
sentence – one
subject and one
verb used for ___
effect.
embedded
clauses, inserting
the commas in the
appropriate
places.
Feedback.
L5: What is a
complex
sentence? What
is a subordinating
conjunction?
Students write up
paragraph
describing one of
three pictures,
ensuring
paragraph
incorporates:
Simple sentences
for effect
Compound
sentences
Commas in a list
Commas with
embedded
clauses
Commas using
subordinating
conjunctions.
Students copy
date and title
Do it now task!
Vocabulary test
Recap questions:
What is a subject?
What is a verb?
What is a simple
sentence? What
is a compound
sentence? What
is a main clause?
What is a
subordinate
clause? Where do
the commas in a
complex sentence
with embedded
clauses go?
Show students a
visual stimulus
taken from The
Fault in Our Stars.
In pairs, students
construct complex
sentences that
begin with the
subordinating
conjunctions on
the page.
Students then
continue to work in
pairs or groups of
four on crafting a
Show students
description using
two complex
the complex
sentences – one
sentences with
with an embedded subordinating
clause and one
conjunctions but, if
using a
they wish to
subordinating
extend
conjunction.
themselves, with
simple,
Students share
their descriptive
paragraphs, orally
talking through
their selfassessment of
structures.
Students identify
main and
subordinate
clause in a
number of
sentences.
Students also
identify the
subordinating
conjunction.
Feedback.
L6: Grammar
check.
compound,
complex with
embedded
clauses and
commas in a list.
Students selfassess their
sentence usage in
the margin.
Students re-draft
complex
sentences so that
they begin with the
subordinating
conjunction and a
comma is inserted
correctly.
Feedback.
Grammar checkpoint to assess their understanding of unit and previous unit.