Strong sentence understanding is the key to students producing strong writing pieces. Maybe this sounds like something that doesn’t even need to be said to you. However, I’ve found that teachers often don’t spend enough time developing firm sentence understanding in their students. This leads to frustrated teachers and students who lack confidence. So, let’s explore why strong sentence skills…
Once student have basic sentences down, sometimes it can be hard to encourage them to create more interesting, complex sentences. We want our students to expand their sentences, but how can we help them understand how to do it? The most simple solution is to teach our students to expand sentences using their senses. This simple strategy is an effective…
Understanding how to write complete sentences, knowing where to put punctuation between sentences to avoid run on and fragments, and understanding what makes a complete simple sentence is a difficult skill! This post will share how to teach these skills using subject and predicate. Subject and Predicate: What’s That? Do your students know what a subject and predicate is? My…