Start-Up Activity

Read page 126. Point out that students use sentences to speak, and writers use sentences to create stories. Display the following “sentence”:

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Ask students to tell you three things that must change to make this group of words a sentence. (The first word needs a capital letter at the start, spaces should come between words, and a period should appear at the end.)

Then read and discuss the three different kinds of sentences listed on page 127. Display the following sentences (and others), and ask students to indicate if each is a telling sentence, an asking sentence, or an exciting sentence:

• Marley barks at the mailman.

• What else does Marley do?

• He eats everything!

Enrichment Activity: Have students write each kind of sentence about one person or animal and draw a picture for each sentence.