Lesson Plan
Sentence Combining: Subjects and Verbs
Help your students recognize when they are writing simple, boring sentences. This lesson will teach them to combine similar elements and improve the flow of sentences.
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Learning Objectives
Students will learn to combine similar elements, such as subjects or verbs, in sentences.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Begin the lesson by explaining to your students that you are going to teach them to combine elements in sentences.
- Remind that them these elements are subjects, or the topics of sentences, and verbs, or the actions that the subject performs.
- Explain that sentence combing, or putting short sentences together to make longer ones, will make their writing smoother.