Subject Lesson Plans

Students practice identifying different parts of a sentence by viewing sample sentences on a computer.  In this formal writing activity, students analyze spoken sentences on their computer and practice writing coherently using the techniques they've observed.  Students practice speaking and reading while being recorded by their teacher.

Students explore communication through writing by analyzing individual sentences. In this friendly letter writing activity, students practice writing compound sentences and identifying sentence fragments which should be removed. Students discover the five parts of a friendly letter and write their own after completing a sentence combining worksheet.

Students focus on sentence structure, and how to construct the necessary elements for a sentence to be considered complete. They practice diagramming sentences, focusing on the independent and dependent clauses.

Third graders identify subjects and predicates/verbs on a worksheet paying particular attention to helping predicates/verbs. They then read a provided text selection and make a personal connection to it. They share their observations and experiences.

Sixth graders practice using simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in speaking and writing activities. Handouts and worksheets are included in the lesson.

Students use wordplay to investigate the grammatical components of a sentence. They read a New York Times article by analyzing the writer's use of nouns and verbs in the article and then constructing original sentences using those words in different contexts.

Students identify nouns and complete dictionary work. For this noun lesson, students find nouns in sentences, and look them up either with a traditional or online dictionary. They identify things in the room and name them with nouns before drawing pictures of items that can be named with nouns.

Learners define alliteration and create sentences using it. In this alliteration lesson, students cut words and pictures from magazines complete sentences using alliteration.

Learners examine biased words in news articles, suggest synonyms, then rewrite the sentences to demonstrate how word choice can alter meaning.

Seventh graders use literature to study the conventions and usage of sentence structures. They produce both oral and written narratives that demonstrate proper sentence structure in this unit.