HELP! WTF is a "Golden Sentence"

[DilysPrice]

DS (yr 2) has to use them in his homework story and refuses to tell me what they are (he says he doesn't know, but I know that smile).
DD (yr 4) has no idea either.

[KATTT]

I've asked my two and they've never heard of a golden sentence.

You never know, some enlightened teacher may have been telling them about the golden ratio, never too soon to learn about that.

[flumperoo]

I expect it's just a way of saying a brilliant sentence, rather than a boring one. So, one that includes an adverb, adjective, connective, interesting opener etc.

[shongololo]

could be related to a writing method called "Rainbow writing" where children encouraged to use adjectives, verbs, adverbs etc. Each figure of speech given a different colour eg adjective = purple. Maybe a golden sentence has lots of the rainbow colours in it.

My son is equally reticent about it. I just askd him and he said "could be...but I dont want to talk about it."

[hocuspontas]

Dredging my memory I think it's like flumperoo said. You have a basic sentence but you have to improve it as much as you can until it becomes a golden sentence.

E.g. There was a dog with a bone. There was a big dog with a bone. There was a big, hairy dog with a bone. There was a big, hairy dog chewing a bone. There was a big, hairy dog chewing a juicy bone. In the corner there was a big, hairy dog chewing a juicy bone.

[DilysPrice]

Thanks everyone.

Given that each word DS writes has to be spelled out letter by letter, then crossed out because he's forgotten to do a finger space, then crossed out again because he's put a capital letter instead of a lower case letter (the crossing out is at his own insistence, I'd be happy to let him carry on) then I feel that adjectives, adverbs and subclauses may be a step too far - we've only got 5 more days until the beginning of term.

[Goblinchild]

Would word processing help?
It got my boy through that tough write/rewrite phase.

[DilysPrice]

Eventually wp will probably help, yes, it did with DD (although she wasted HOURS changing fonts and colours) but he's not keen at the mo, and he does need the physical writing practice.

[Goblinchild]

Try getting him to dictate a sentence, write it out for him, discuss improvements and make them, and then get him to copy it.

[DilysPrice]

Mmmm, sounds like a challenge Goblinchild but probably a good idea, thanks.
He's devised a story, and it's even on topic, which is a minor miracle, but getting it onto paper is a letter-by-letter struggle.

[Goblinchild]

My son has Aspeger's. When he was that age, he could think, or talk or write but not compose ad write in one sequence. He needed a step in the middle, when he could swap his thoughts over from thinking about what he was writing to actually scribing it.
That phase lasted quite a while, but he's now coping with GCSEs reasonably well.
Yours may not need it, but I found it took a lot of the frustration out of things.

[herdingcats]

We have expensive sentences at my DD's school . They mean lots of difficult words and longer sentences

[RatherBeOnTheMulledWine]

A golden sentence according to DS is one with appropriate punctuation ie capital letter to start and full stop on the end.

[RatherBeOnTheMulledWine]

What used to finish him off were bloody WOW words!

[icantbelieveimnotbitter]

Just asked DD (yr2) who says it's a sentence containing VCOP

Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation

(icantbelieve is staggered she just came out with all that

i'd never heard of it!

[mrz]

We use VCOP but don't have Golden Sentences? VCOP would be part of a longer piece of writing.

[icantbelieveimnotbitter]

Ah, that would make more sense mrz, was wondering how you'd get all that in one sentence!