Alright, it’s time to roll up my sleeves and start preparing this long run of posts to publish as the entire Introduction to Writing Sentences unit.
So here is the first lesson plan on understanding the parts of speech as well as the elements of a sentence, that is the subject and the predicate. This lesson takes students through the process, first as a structured activity using mentor texts, then independent work, writing grammatically complete sentences with a recognition of their subjects and predicates.
Accordingly, I hope, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the parts of a sentence opens this lesson. This scaffolded worksheet is the primary work for this lesson, and guides students through the work, both supported and independent, of understanding the parts of sentence by actually working with them. This learning support attends the worksheet. More generally, here are a glossary on the parts of speech, which is adapted from William Strunk and E.B. White’s The Elements of Style (New York: Longman, 2000), that chestnut of composition classes everywhere at one time. Finally, here is a learning support on the verb to be, conjugated. The verb to be, known as a copula, is everywhere in the English language. It is vital that our students know how to conjugate this extremely common verb in English.
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