Building Sentences with Sentence Strips
Understanding Sentence Structure (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Ages:
5-8
Grade Range:
1st 2ndFood Groups:
Primary:
Writing Processes & Strategies
Transcript
With this particular activity the story strips are used to give children a better understanding of proper sentence structure. So, for example, lets look at this sentence. This says "the pig has a bushy tail", we all know that pigs do not have a bushy tail, so this does not make any sense. And as you can see, this is the correct sentence structure because you have picture cues, and it says an elephant has a long nose. So this is the correct sentence structure.
Activity Objective
The goal of Building Sentences with Sentence Strips: Understanding Sentence Structure (Virtual Tour) is to provide students with practice in organizing their writing and help students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composing.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Modeling this activity will help students gain a greater understanding of the expectations.
- Including new sentence strips on a regular basis will maintain students' interest and motivation for literacy.
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