Writing good sentences

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Expanding Sentences Anchor Chart and Mini-Lesson

Great teaching tips and ideas for writing in complete sentences and using subjects and predicates! Subjects and predicates go together like peanut butter and jelly! This is a series of writing lessons with links to other sentence structure activities.

Do your students know the difference between a fragment and a complete sentence? If not, don’t worry! Teaching the skill of writing a complete sentence to elementary students is easier than you think. In this blog post, I’ll give you a rundown of what a sentence is, how to write one, and some tips for writing a complete sentence. By the time you’re finished reading, your students will write complete sentences like the pros!

Conjunctions Used in Sentences | 100 Example Sentences

English to Hindi

In upper grade classrooms, students spend a great deal of time responding to the texts they read. Over the years I have found that no matter what grade level I teach, students have a difficult time writing thorough and meaningful reading responses. At the start of every year my students need quite a bit of guidance when writing their responses. One of the best ways that I have found to teach students to write meaningful responses is by providing them with sentence frames. I like to encourage…

This is an 8 1/2 x 11 sized "poster" that I created to help my second grade students to remember to write better sentences. It helps them to remember to include details in their sentences and try to paint a picture with words, including verbs, adjectives, nouns, etcetera.