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Twice a month, Jamie Keddie sends out the LessonStream Post – a story or storytelling idea for the classroom. It's free to sign up and you can do so here: https://lessonstream.com

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Some ideas

1 Let's begin with the standard word order in English: Subject + verb

2 To create a question, we invert the subject and auxiliary verb.

I am becomes Am I

3 We refer to words like who, what, why, where, when and how as question words. But they are not always involved in questions.

Here is an example:

Who I am is an example of a wh-clause.

Wh-clauses can find themselves in larger, more complex structures including indirect questions.

5 As a teacher, I want to make students aware of wh-clauses before we proceed to these more complex structures. And these images are an excellent way of doing so.

 

Using images of book covers

To obtain these images, I made use of one of my favourite teaching resources. It's a place where we can find short, visually-enhanced texts for illustrating a whole range of  language points. I'm talking about Amazon.