How do teachers choose which sentence to use for “Sentence of the Day” (SOTD) without it being too difficult on Monday?

This is where having a scope and sequence for is important. One for Morning Routine and one for grammar. Considerations also need to be made for your writing scope and sequence, to make links to what they will need to produce in writing.

Don’t forget the gradual release of responsibility model. Your Sentence of the Day (SOTD) should have the same focus or learning intention for the whole week.

Monday should be/can be difficult as the teacher is doing the ‘heavy lifting’ through live scribing and think aloud. Students don’t even need to be writing on the Monday (or Tuesday) is these days are key for teacher modelling. On Wednesday, you will do SOTD in a more guided/shared way, gradual reducing your level of support by the time you assess on Friday.