I Like Sentences

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Explain that they just wrote a sentence. A sentence is one thought. A sentence always has a complete thought, starts with a capital letter in the first word, and ends with either a period, exclamation point, or question mark.
• Point out the capital letter and ending punctuation in each of the sentences you just wrote.

Guided Practice

• Model writing another sentence on the board, but this time use all capital letters and no ending punctuation.
• Ask the students to see if they can fix your sentence.
• Call on a few students to share their ideas, then highlight the mistakes you made and rewrite your sentence correctly.
• Practice writing a few more sentences on the board that are missing one or two things (all lowercase, no ending punctuation, no thought) and have the students help you fix each sentence.
• Remind students that a sentence needs all three parts to be complete: Capitalization, complete thought, and end punctuation.

Independent working time

• Tell your class they will now get a chance to write their own sentences.
• Pass out a Create a Sentence worksheet to each student.