The aim for this four-day writing project is to give children a solid apprenticeship in what a sentence is. Young authors can sometimes hold the misconception that it’s a capital letter and a full stop that makes a sentence a sentence. This little project will help you iron out that misconception once and for all.
This project is especially suitable for teachers who are frustrated with their students’ sentence-crafting skills.
Through this writing project, children will learn that:
- A sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
- A subject is the who or what.
- A predicate explains what that subject is up to or how it is feeling.
You may wish to couple this project with our What is end punctuation? project too. The aim of this particular project is to give children a strong foundation on how to use punctuation to end their sentences. Children will learn that:
- A sentence typically ends with a piece of end punctuation.
- There are three common pieces of end punctuation that writers use: full-stops, question marks and exclamation marks.
- You can sometimes use ellipsis as a piece of end punctuation too.
Both of these projects come as part of our eBook: Sentence-Level Instruction: Lessons That Help Children Find Their Style & Voice For 3-11 Year Olds. You download this eBook here.
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