Crafting Quality Sentences
If you have any questions, please contact Laurie Weir or Adrienne Collins at [email protected]
If you have any questions, please contact Laurie Weir or Adrienne Collins at [email protected]
* A friendly reminder that is no class next week, October 18th - Fall Break.
October 25, 2022 (Class 6) Last Class.
Class Update:
Students ...
Class Update:
Students ...
- reviewed key skills taught over the past five weeks. (subject & predicate, adjectives, vivid verbs, sentence starters, adverbs, and combining sentences using FANBOYS.
- participated in a sentence writing relay game to review key concepts, punctuation, and adding details such as when and where.
October 11, 2022 (Class 5)
Class Update:
Students...
1. Practice combining sentences by deleting unimportant words. (Worksheet)
2. Complete the compound sentence worksheet to review conjunctions. Make sure you start each sentence with a capital and end with the correct punctuation.
3. Write five super sentences that contain a vivid verb, adjective, and tell when and where. Use words vivid word list passed out in class.
Class Update:
Students...
- reviewed subjects and predicates by writing adding their own predicates to a subject.
- learned and practiced how to combine two short sentences by deleting unimportant words.
- reviewed coordinating conjunctions by choosing the correct conjunction for a sentence and writing the sentence down correctly.
1. Practice combining sentences by deleting unimportant words. (Worksheet)
2. Complete the compound sentence worksheet to review conjunctions. Make sure you start each sentence with a capital and end with the correct punctuation.
3. Write five super sentences that contain a vivid verb, adjective, and tell when and where. Use words vivid word list passed out in class.
- Start one sentence with..
- adjective
- adverb (-ly word)
- proper noun
- common noun
- subject
October 5, 2022 (Class 4)
Class Update:
Students...
1. Complete the Compound Sentence worksheet to practice conjunctions.
2. Complete the Sentence Improvement worksheet. (on backside Compound worksheet)
3. If you did not finish the two descriptive sentences, please do.
Class Update:
Students...
- reviewed descriptive writing by checking out adjectives, adverbs, and vivid verbs and choosing a few to use in sentences.
- learned about the benefits of writing very short sentences, then participated in an activity using dice and writing short sentences.
- learned how to connect two independent clauses using coordinating conjunctions and a comma. Then practiced by putting together sentence puzzles.
1. Complete the Compound Sentence worksheet to practice conjunctions.
2. Complete the Sentence Improvement worksheet. (on backside Compound worksheet)
3. If you did not finish the two descriptive sentences, please do.
September 27, 2022 (Class 3)
Class Update:
Students....
1. Finish the five different ways to start a sentence worksheet examples.
2. Finish the sentence improving worksheet by following the guidelines below each sentence.
3. Write seven sentences. See if you can start each sentence differently.
Class Update:
Students....
- shared their sentences revisions.
- learned that vivid verbs show rather than tell what is happening. We practiced making up sentences using vivid verbs from the list.
- reviewed subjects and predicates and the four different types of sentences.
- discussed the five different ways to begin a sentence .
- worked on expanding and giving more details to sentences using the Sentence Improving worksheet.
1. Finish the five different ways to start a sentence worksheet examples.
2. Finish the sentence improving worksheet by following the guidelines below each sentence.
3. Write seven sentences. See if you can start each sentence differently.
- Use a vivid verb (see list)
- Add an adjective
- Start each sentence differently using the worksheet
- If you need to be challenged, include when and where
September 20, 2022 (Class 2)
Class Updates:
Students...
1. Finish the Revising Sentence worksheet started in class. See if you can improve the basic sentences.
2. Finish the Subject and Predicate worksheet started in class.
3. Complete the "I Spy" activity by identifying different types of sentences within the "Piano" reading. Locate at least two to three for each different type of sentence. (Declarative -Statement that ends with period, Interrogative - Question that ends with a question mark, Exclamatory - shouts something and ends with an exclamatory mark, and Imperative - is a command or request and ends with a period.
Class Updates:
Students...
- shared their favorite mentor sentences that they matched up.
- practiced changing basic sentences into ones that have details and paint a picture.
- learned about the four different types of sentences and practice identifying sentences in a paragraph.
- reviewed subjects and predicates and began a worksheet to continue working on identifying the two main parts of a sentence.
- discussed the "I Spy" homework in detail.
1. Finish the Revising Sentence worksheet started in class. See if you can improve the basic sentences.
2. Finish the Subject and Predicate worksheet started in class.
3. Complete the "I Spy" activity by identifying different types of sentences within the "Piano" reading. Locate at least two to three for each different type of sentence. (Declarative -Statement that ends with period, Interrogative - Question that ends with a question mark, Exclamatory - shouts something and ends with an exclamatory mark, and Imperative - is a command or request and ends with a period.
September 13, 2022 (Class 1)
Class Updates:
Class Updates:
- Welcome Activity
- that a mentor sentence is an example sentence.
- discussed the examples sentences and compared them to dull sentences.
- and practiced identifying the two main parts of a sentence.
- that adjectives describe the noun, add details, and help paint a picture with words.
- Finish the "Fireflies" mentor sentence activity started in class.
- Complete the subjects, and predicate worksheet started in class.
- Sentences- Write a total of seven sentences. Make sure that each sentence has an adjective. Remember that adjectives tell us about the noun, what color, the size, how something feels, how many, how something sounds, how something looks, and how something behaves.
- Underline the adjective in each sentence
- Start each sentence differently with a capital letter.
- Add ending punctuation