Learn the skills of writing sentences that are clear and correct by building word trains, fixing capitals and full stops, and joining ideas.
Chapter 1: Say it first
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Writing Sentences: All Aboard the Sentence Express is an interactive game that teaches children aged 6–9, pitched at Year 3, the skills of writing sentences that are clear, correct and interesting. Each sentence is a train: the capital letter is the engine, words are carriages and the end mark is the buffer.
Guided by Dot, a talking full stop, children say a sentence aloud before writing it and spot what is missing when it has no verb (doing word) or subject (who it is about). They rebuild jumbled sentences, split run-on sentences with a full stop, choose between a and an, and swap dull words for precise adjectives and powerful verbs.
Each chapter opens with a short animated introduction, and some offer optional refreshers on sentence types and joining words. Every instruction is read aloud, and a 10-question final challenge checks what has been learned.
A good Year 3 sentence makes sense on its own, starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark. It says who the sentence is about and what they do, and uses well-chosen words so the reader can picture it.
A run-on sentence is two sentences squashed together with no full stop between them, such as 'we went to the park we played on the swings'. Fix it by adding a full stop and a capital letter, or by joining the two ideas with a conjunction such as and or so.
Year 3 children learn a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because and although, alongside and, but, or and so from earlier years. A conjunction joins two ideas into one longer sentence and shows how they link, for example by giving a reason, a time or a condition.
The game suits children aged 6–9 and is pitched at Year 3 English, when most children are 7–8. Every instruction is read aloud, so confident Year 2 readers can follow it, and Year 4 children can use it to revise sentence basics.
The game has five chapters and a 10-question final challenge, and takes about 40 minutes to play from start to finish. Children can choose any chapter from the station map, so it also works well in shorter sessions of one chapter at a time.
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