Kernel Sentences & Expansion
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Kernel Sentences
Kernel Sentences
Question 1
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A complete sentence.Simplest version that still makes sense.No modifiers. No conjunctions.
Is this a kernel sentence?
Question 2
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The birds fly high.
Why is this not a kernel sentence?
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The birds fly high.
In the real-world classroom, are they both important for children to avoid including in their kernel sentence?
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IMO yes.
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The birds fly high.
Subject knowledge wise, what word class is high?
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The birds fly high.
An adverb. It modifies the verb fly. Not all adverbs end in ly and not all words ending in ly are adverbs.
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The birds fly high.
Do you need to identify the word class of high during the classroom for children to understand what the kernel sentence is?
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IMO no.What they do need is:
- A kernel sentence is the simplest complete sentence (it makes sense).
- A kernel sentence has a subject and object.
- Be widely read.
- Lots of practice of changing expanded sentences into kernels.
- Lots of practice of creating kernel sentences (incl. variations).
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The birds fly.
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Birds fly.
Is this a kernel sentence?
Question 3
Is this a kernel sentence?
Question 4
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Mia was getting tired.
Why is this not a kernel sentence?
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Mia was getting tired.
In the real-world classroom, is it important to pick up that this sentence is not a kernel sentence?
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IMO yes.
- A kernel sentence is the simplest complete sentence (it makes sense).
Is this a kernel sentence?
Question 5
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James was.
Why is this not a kernel sentence?
A complete sentence.Simplest version that still makes sense.No modifiers. No conjunctions.
Is this a kernel sentence?
Question 6
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The boat was next to the boy.
Turn this sentence into a kernel sentence.
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The boat was next to the boy.
This IS a kernel sentence!
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In the distance, a tiny figure knelt by a pool of shimmering water.
Turn this sentence into a kernel sentence.
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In the distance, a tiny figure knelt by a pool of shimmering water.
Lots of ways and orders to do this. The main 2 are:
- Remove things you know are 'additional'.
- Identify the subject and the verb.
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In the distance, a tiny figure knelt by a pool of shimmering water.
What is the subject?
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In the distance, a tiny figure knelt by a pool of shimmering water.
What is the verb?
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In the distance, a tiny figure knelt by a pool of shimmering water.
What is the verb?
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The figure knelt.
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The birds fly high.
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The birds fly.Where?The birds fly over towns and villages.
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The birds fly.Where?The birds fly over towns and villages.The birdsThe birdsThe birdsThe birdsThe birdsThe birds
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The birds fly.
What else could be an issue with this kernel sentence?
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The birds fly.
Present tense. Children are likely to write in the tense this is given to them in. So unless deliberately wanting them to change tense, give it to them in the tense you want them to write in, so usually the past tense.
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The birds flew.When?
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew.
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew.Where?
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew.Where?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns.
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew.Where?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns.How?
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew.Where?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns.How?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns with grace.
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns.How?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns with grace.Why?
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The birds flew.When?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns.How?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns with grace.Why?In the blaze of the midday sun, birds flew over villages and towns with grace, so they could show the world they were free once again.
Kernel Sentences Completed!