This term we have been focussing on teaching different types of sentences that can help formulate effective paragraphs in preparation for our external exam. During our social studies lesson this week, one of my year 12 boys was struggling with how to write a power sentence. He pulled out a little red notebook, that his health teacher, Whaea Kata had given him and looked carefully at his definition of what a power sentence was. He tells me that they are doing the same thing in health and he just wanted to double check the meaning.
I have had discussions with Whaea Kata on how she is using sentences structures in her teaching and her brilliant idea of getting kids to write down in their own notebooks the definitions so that they can carry them around to refer to, is paying off. As I introduced sentence structures at the beginning of the term, the health kids were like 'we're doing this in health too' and it will be interesting to see if the 10 students, who take both subjects, show better outcomes with their writing then those students who don't.
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