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Start-Up Activity
As students read, write, and speak, their sentence sense will naturally develop. You can also promote sentence awareness through specific language activities, such as the one that follows.
Display the following word groups:
Rosa is He likes a noisy car eats lunch
Ask students to help you turn each of these word groups into a complete thought.
Tell students that it is through sentences that people think, write, and share stories. Then read and discuss the chapter introduction on page 53. Have students identify the naming and telling parts of the sentences you created in the start-up activity.
Think About It
“You want the reader to feel swept along, as if on a kind of trip, from sentence to sentence.”
—Russ Freedman
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Start-Up Activity
As students read, write, and speak, their sentence sense will naturally develop. You can also promote sentence awareness through specific language activities, such as the one that follows.
Display the following word groups:
Rosa is He likes a noisy car eats lunch
Ask students to help you turn each of these word groups into a complete thought.
Tell students that it is through sentences that people think, write, and share stories. Then read and discuss the chapter introduction on page 53. Have students identify the naming and telling parts of the sentences you created in the start-up activity.
Think About It
“You want the reader to feel swept along, as if on a kind of trip, from sentence to sentence.”
—Russ Freedman