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Y6E Harris Burdick Immerse L2

Literacy Counts

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Immerse Lesson 2

Sentence Accuracy

Sentence Accuracy

Quick Build: single-clause sentence

Verb

notes

Who/What

Burdick

Sentence

Burdick notes.

Add Detail: expanded noun phrases

the detailed, careful sketch of the shadowed street.

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Burdick notes

Re-read

Build

the detailed, careful sketch of the shadowed street.

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Check

Burdick notes

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My turn to write the sentence.

Listen to my writer's voice.
Let me hide it!Now your turn.

Your turn to write a sentence.

Write?
Dictate?
Adapt/Extend?
Combine?
Fix?

Use your Sentence Checker

Sentence time over! Click to move on.

Quick Build: single-clause sentence

Verb

was chased

Subject

illustrator

Sentence

The illustrator was chased.

Add Detail: active or passive?

Authorities chased the illustrator.

The illustrator was chased by the authorities.

Re-read

Build

Match the active and passive labels to the correct sentence.

ACTIVE

Check

PASSIVE

The illustrator was chased by the authorities.

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Authorities chased the illustrator.

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My turn to write the sentence.

Listen to my writer's voice.
Let me hide it!Now your turn.

Your turn to write a sentence.

Write?
Dictate?
Adapt/Extend?
Combine?
Fix?

Use your Sentence Checker

Sentence time over! Click to move on.

Can I understand and use the vocabulary in the Vehicle Text?

Drama: Roleplay

Who might have sent you this letter?
Why is it 'highly confidential'?

A Note from Harris Burdick

Who?
What?
Where?
Why?

Illustration 3: A Strange Day in July: two children stood by a sparkling sea, skipping stones

Illustration 7: The Harp: a river and waterfall setting with a harp to the right of the river

Illustration 5: Another Place, Another Time: four characters setting off along a track on a wooden railroad trolley cart with a sail

When?
How?

Illustration 14: The House on Maple Street: a large house on a street at night, lifting off like a rocket

Illustration 8: Mr Linden’s Library: a girl asleep next to an open book, with leafy vines growing from it

Book Time

What?
Who?
Why?
Where?

Let me read all of 'The Mysteries of Harris Burdick' again focusing on the five illustrations revealed.

How?
When?

New words in our book

Hover for definitions!

fascinated

skipping

remarkable

bizarre

Hover for definitions!

boy wonder

with all his might

canal

ocean liner

schooner

Your turn to write sentences in role as private investigators using the new vocabulary.

Use your Sentence Checker

Can I understand and use the vocabulary in the Vehicle Text?

CEW

Handwriting

Writing Effects

Spelling

Ideas

Other...

Feedback: Who did what well?

The illustrator was chased by the authorities.

PASSIVE

Authorities chased the illustrator.

ACTIVE

the detailed, careful sketch of the shadowed street.

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Burdick notes