Planet Protectors - Practising in Sentences

Writing a single word is often easier than writing it within a sentence. Please feel free to make up sentences for your child's spelling sets. Use spellings from across sets already learnt. 

The sets below are very short sentences, most of which use each spelling in the set. They also try only to use phonic knowledge that is familiar already. Please be aware that they are not meant to illustrate excellent sentences, but are  intended for efficient practise of each set within a sentence. Please acknowledge when they are a little daft.

Do improve by using words that your child already knows. Giving them repeated experience of being able to correctly tackle each word will help them to trust that they can keep drawing on the phonics already known when writing in sentences. 

Please ensure that your child is using a capital letter when needed (such as at the start of the sentence and with words like 'Mrs'). There is a useful formation guide at the bottom of the page. Please do not expect your child to use every punctuation mark accurately at this stage, but do expect them to use capital letters, exclamation marks and question marks correctly every time.

Supporting Learners

It may be that your child has specific needs and writing these sentences will put unnecessary strain on their time practising. If this is the case, please reduce the load by saying the word, saying it within a sentence that would interest your child and then say the word again. Your child will keep hearing great quality, full sentences and then write the word. Encourage them to read the words back to you and to say them in sentences. 

Set 63: does, walk, watch, anything, also

1. She does like to walk to school and also stops to watch anything interesting on the way.
2. He likes to watch the birds and also walk slowly so that he does not miss anything.
3. Does anyone walk to the park and also watch for anything happening there?

Set 64: always, using, gone, used, goes

1. She is always using the pencil that goes in her bag, but today it has gone missing.
2. The bus always goes past our house using the main road, but today he used a different way and has gone home early.
3. The bird always liked using our twigs, but now has gone and goes to another house for their used sticks.

Set 65: while, above, leave, write, group

1. While the group sat above the hill, they would write about the trees and leave notes for each other.
2. The group will write a story while sitting above the stream before they leave for home.
3. Above the classroom, the group can write and leave their work while the teacher reads it.

Set 66: before, during, hourly, often, early

1. Before school starts, we often arrive early and during the day the bell rings hourly.
2. During the morning, we often check the time hourly because we arrived early before breakfast.
3. The train runs hourly and often arrives early before the clock strikes and during rush hour.

Set 67: eight, fruit, coming, jumped, stopped

1. The eight children jumped up when they saw fruit coming and then stopped to wash their hands.
2. Eight rabbits jumped towards the fruit and stopped eating when they saw someone coming near them.
3. At eight o'clock, the fruit delivery was coming, but the van stopped as it jumped over the bump.

Set 68: brought, heard, thoughtful, enough, together

1. The thoughtful children brought enough apples and heard the teacher say they could work together.
2. We heard that the thoughtful girl brought enough food for everyone to share together at lunch.
3. Together, we brought enough gifts and heard the thoughtful words that brought everyone together.

Set 69: throughout, caught, difficult, sometimes, forward

1. Throughout the game, it was difficult because sometimes the ball was caught and sometimes thrown forward.
2. Sometimes throughout the year it is difficult to move forward but we caught up in the end.
3. The difficult puzzle was caught by the wind throughout the day and sometimes blew forward across the garden.

Set 70: answer, differently, suddenly, important, question

1. The important question was answered differently when suddenly everyone understood what it meant.
2. Suddenly, the teacher asked an important question and each child tried to answer it differently.
3. It is important to answer the question differently because suddenly we thought of new ideas.

Set 71: height, weight, ninth, length, circle

1. The ninth child measured the height and weight and length of the circle for the project.
2. In the ninth lesson, we learned about height and weight and then about the length around a circle.
3. The ninth circle of card has a length of wool around it and the measurement showed its height and weight too.

Set 72: square, triangle, perhaps, whilst, appear

1. The triangle and square appear to be the same size. Wait whilst we measure them carefully.
2. Perhaps the square and triangle will appear whilst we are drawing the shapes on paper.
3. Whilst looking at the shapes, perhaps a square and triangle will appear on the paper.

Set 73: potatoes, balloon, interest, learn, rectangle

1. We learn about potatoes and took interest in drawing a rectangle. A red balloon floated above us while we worked.
2. The children learn to draw rectangles with interest. They grew potatoes and watched a balloon float over the garden.
3. We looked with interest at the rectangle stones. We stopped when the balloons shaped like potatoes popped!