| Connectives and Openers - English - 16/8/2008
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Connectives are used to join sentences together. Children are encouraged to use a wider range of connectives as they progress through the national curriculum levels: At level 1 they will start to join two sentences together using ‘and’, at level 2 they will start to use ‘but’, ‘so’, ‘then’ and also be introduced to and begin to experiment with a wider range of connectives; ‘because’ ‘if’ ‘when’. At level 3 they use a wider range of connectives which might include some of the following; because, before, after, when, if. Children also learn to use connectives to open sentences; Before, After, When. At level 4 children use a range of connectives, usually accurately and consistently. They experiment in the use of more ambitious connectives to open sentences e.g. Although, Having, Despite.
Openers do what they say- they open sentences. At level 1 they start sentences with words like The, My and I. At level 2 they can use openers to show a sequence; First, Then, Next. They begin to use connectives to start sentences. At level 3 they start to use more sophisticated openers; Although, After a while…, The golden sun shone, The little, old man…. At level 4 they use ambitious connectives to open sentences Having, Despite, and phrases such as ‘Due to the lack of..’, Before the audience left….’ |
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| Written calculations: addition - Maths - 15/8/2008
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This page shows how we teach addition at Nettlestone. It is important to understand that children do not progress on to these formal written methods until they can add or subtract any pair of 2 digit numbers, and have used informal paper and pencil methods of addition as detailed on the mathematics home page.
1. Children are taught to partition numbers to help them develop mental strategies:
43 + 55
= 40 + 50 + 3 + 5
= 90 + 8
= 98
2. Leading to written recording, by adding the most (or least) significant digits first:
67
+24
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80
11
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91
267
+85
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200
140
12
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352
3. NB: It does not matter which order the numbers are added – this is called commutativity. |
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