Finding the Subject and Predicate

Explicit instruction/Teacher modeling

• Hand out the Two Parts of a Sentence worksheet.
• Complete numbers 2 and 3 together.
• Allow students to finish independently.
• Use the document camera to go over the answers. Make sure students correct their answers if they answered incorrectly.

Guided practice/Interactive modeling

• Hand out the Subject and Predicate worksheet.
• Help struggling students as the class completes the worksheet.
• Review answers on the document camera.

Independent working time

• Have students write 10-15 sentences of their own. Give an expected length for the sentences depending on the fluency of your class.
• Have students trade papers with a partner.
• Have students underline the subject once and the predicate twice on their partners' sentences.
• Hand out the Complete Sentences and Sentence or Fragment? #1 worksheets.
• Have students work on these two sheets independently.

• Enrichment: Students who complete their work early may be allowed to complete the Compound Predicate worksheet for a challenge.
• Support: Work with struggling students one-on-one to identify the subjects and predicates of sentences.

• Go over the answers for the worksheets on the document camera.
• Collect student worksheets and check for correctness.

• Have students give you sentences of which you will find the subject and predicate on the board.
• Allow students to ask any final questions or voice any concerns they may have about the lesson.