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The Sentence: A Way of Thinking

The Sentence: A Way of Thinking. Lesson One: Fragments. Task: Write one sentence in your Writer’s Notebook. How do you know that was a sentence? Essential Question: What makes a sentence a sentence?. Mentor Texts: Are these sentences and how do you know?.

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The Sentence: A Way of Thinking

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  1. The Sentence: A Way of Thinking Lesson One: Fragments

  2. Task: Write one sentence in your Writer’s Notebook. • How do you know that was a sentence? • Essential Question: What makes a sentence a sentence?

  3. Mentor Texts: Are these sentences and how do you know? • They race. (pg. 5 – Loser by Jerry Spinelli) • Matt winces. (pg. 364 – House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer) • Maria flinched. (pg. 366) • Matt froze. (pg. 370) • Matt nodded. (pg. 372) • Tad watched. (pg. 6 – Cujo by Stephen King) • Blood flew. (pg. 111) • He sprung. (pg. 128)

  4. Notes: • A sentence must contain: • At least one subject (Who or What did something?) • At least one verb (What did they do?) • Form a complete thought • A fragment is missing one element of a sentence.

  5. Formula for a sentence: Subject + Verb = Simple Sentence

  6. Practice: Pick out the subject and verb in the following sentences. • The lights cluster brilliantly up the street at Claudia’s house. (pg. 174 – Loser by Jerry Spinelli) • He reaches back to touch the door.

  7. Activity: Sentence Smackdown • Groups of 3. • Roles: Reader, Subject, Verb • Directions • Practice: • Example #1: Then he lowers his hand. • Example #2: His ears echo the thousand warnings of his mother: “Don’t cross the street.”

  8. Are you ready to grammar?

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