Lesson overview

Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
metalanguage
language about language
sentences
sentence types
sentence construction
statements
questions
commands
exclamations
fragments
combining sentence types
grammar
emphasising emotion
expressing character emotion
character relationships
describing thoughts
internal world
functional grammar
question words
interrogatives
yes no questions
tag questions
leading questions
dialogue
style
voice
pacing
complex sentences
compound sentences
clauses
This lesson is part of a series designed to build students' language about language, so they can analyse text with greater confidence and fluency. In this particular lesson we look at five types of sentence: statement, command, question, exclamation and fragment. We look at lots of snippets and rewrite examples of each sentence type. We then look at how writers combine sentence types to create particular narrative effects, including emphasising emotion, building character relationships, and exploring a character's internal thoughts.