Gale Peach
Introduction
Standards
Objectives
Activities
Assessment
Results
Resources

 

Complete
 
 


 
 
 
 

or Incomplete . . .


 

That is the question.

 Introduction

This lesson will reinforce the basic language skills of recognizing and writing complete sentences. This is a simple lesson developed as a remediation tool for students at the 3rd to 4th grade level.  My students will be sorting complete from incomplete sentences, putting phrases in order to make complete sentences, and writing complete sentences addressing given prompts.

Subject: Language Arts
Topic:  Sentence Recognition and Sentence Writing
Grade Level:  Remedial/Special Education 3rd-4th
Student Lesson:  http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~gpeach/student/
Standards Addressed
1.1  Write and speak in complete, coherent sentences.
1.6 Use knowledge of the basic rules of punctuation and capitalization when writing. 
1.1  Distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences.
1.2  Recognize and use the correct word order in written sentences.
 
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Instructional Objectives
1.  Students will identify complete and incomplete sentences.
2.  Students will choose phrases and put them together to make complete sentences. 
3.  Given five prompts, students will write a complete sentence for each prompt. 
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Student Activities
In our Learning Center we are working with students on writing complete sentences.  Students will practice identifying complete and incomplete sentences.  They will sort complete sentences from incomplete sentences.    They  will choose and combine phrases to make complete sentences.  Given a visual prompt, students will write a complete sentence for each of five prompts. 

Introductory Activities
Students will take a pretest in order to assess their current ability to recognize complete sentences. 
Review sentence structure with students:
    •  A sentence must have a subject and a predicate. 
    •  The subject of a sentence tells you who or what the sentence is about. 
    •  The predicate of the sentence tells more about the subject and has to include a verb.

Enabling Activities
1. Students will play a sentence recognizing game.

2. Students will put phrases in order to make complete sentences.

3.  Students will select phrases from groups of phrases to make complete sentences.
 
 

Culminating Activity
Students will select a prompt and write a complete sentence for each of  five prompts.
 
 
 

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Assessment
Students will take a posttest. 
Evaluate sentences students generate from prompts in culminating activity. 
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Result

                          
 

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Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

Introductory Activity
Fun Brain 
Enabling Activity

Sentence Fluency Game
Create a list of sentences and incomplete sentences from your current curiculum.
You can play this like a spelling bee by dividing your students into two standing groups.
One group plays first, then the second group plays.
To remain standing, students need to give the correct response. 
You ask each student:  “Is this a complete sentence or an incomplete sentence?”
Give your students several examples.
Your goal is to help students develop an ear for complete sentences.
Make your sentences very simple in the beginning and then increase their difficulty as your students develop their ear. 
The team with the most students standing at the end of your time period wins the game.

Jo's World Animated Gallery   

Anigifs by RW51   

Fun Brain   

Culminating Activity

Picture Prompts  from:
Jo's World Animated Gallery  
 

 
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Pleasant Ridge Elementary
Grass Valley, CA
Gale Peach    gpeach@pleasantridge.k12.ca.us
Last Revised: 05/06/01