One of the most important lessons we do for the year is learning how to make boring sentences into exciting ones. We learn that a sentence needs to have five things to be a grammatically correct sentence:
~ A capital letter at the beginning
~ A mark of punctuation at the end
~ A subject, or noun
~ A predicate, or verb
~ A complete thought
We start off with the grammatically correct, but boring sentence:
The snowflake falls.
Then, we add adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and dependent clauses to create the perfect picture in our readers' minds of exactly what we want them to see. Each sentence ends up being as unique as snowflakes themselves!
We refer to this assignment often, as we try to improve any "boring" sentences that creep into our writing on longer assignments. With this foundation of grammatical concepts, we are ready to apply all we've learned on future longer pieces!
Enjoy these samples across the grades!
1st grade sample to come
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