Be a Sentence Builder

Summary
This is an introductory lesson about sentences and sentence structure.

Objectives
• to show how sentences are constructed;

• to review the meaning of subject and predicate.

• to test students? knowledge and understanding through appropriate exercises.

Suggested Grades
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade

Excerpt
What is a sentence? A sentence is a group of words that makes compete sense.
A sentence must have two things:

1. A subject: someone or something to do the action. Subjects are nouns or pronouns that tell us who or what did the action.
2. A predicate: a verb, or action word that tells what the subject did, is or was.

? The cat

Is this a complete thought? No. Cat could be the subject of a sentence, but what did the cat do? We need a predicate, or action, to make the thought complete.

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