Sentence Science F-2 Explicitly Teaching Sentence Structure

Name: Sentence Science F-2 Explicitly Teaching Sentence Structure
Start: 2026-07-17T09:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-07-17T09:00:00+10:00
Location: Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership

About

Join Jess Walta for this practical and engaging professional learning workshop designed to strengthen students' oral and written sentence construction.

While the curriculum expects Foundation to Year 2 students to write simple sentences (and begin to introduce compound sentences in year 2), many of the crucial steps in between are often overlooked. This session unpacks those missing links—moving from oral language to written expression, and building the strong foundations students need to become confident writers.

Teachers will explore how to:
*Build strong oral sentence foundations through engaging songs, games and activities.
*Teach the basics of a subject-verb sentence, including the little parts students often find hard to say—and therefore can't write.
*Develop students' use and understanding of subjects, verbs, objects, adjectives and adverbials - where, when, how and why.
*Scaffold the journey from saying a simple sentence correctly to writing one with confidence.
*Begin to introduce the concept of joining clauses to create a compound sentence.
*Support students in telling stories in consecutive sentences accurately (from oral to written).
*Support students in avoiding the use of run-on sentences or 'and then' to start a sentence.
*Plan for a writing genre through a Sentence Science lens, with a focus on oral language at the start of the unit and continued throughout.

Grounded in the principles of Sentence Science, this approach makes sentence construction visible, structured, and achievable—helping even the youngest writers find their voice on and off the page.

This workshop is ideal for teachers of students from Foundation to Year 2.