Alabama ELA Standard: 1.LF.32.c

Students work with subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to write compound sentences.

When I see a quote, I often think, “That’s not quite right!”

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

These sentences about Washington, DC got scrambled. Can you put them back in order using nothing but context clues?

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

Can your students help The Bard? We’ll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at the zoo.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at school.

Students pick from 12 random phrases to create a story about an incident in a restaurant.

Students use 12 random phrases to write a story that takes place in at an amusement park.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in at a magical school.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

The word “may” can be used for possibility or permission. It’s a modal auxiliary verb!

Two columns of sentences. Something is different about them. Can you figure out the rule?

These clauses are sorted into two groups. What’s the rule? No definitions given — just examples.

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?

The barber shaves everybody who doesn’t themselves. So… does the barber shave himself?

Will your students notice progressive tense vs simple tense?

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.

Your students’ sentences all start the same way. Here are three techniques that fix that overnight.

‘Add more variety!’ teachers say. But how? This lesson gives students actual techniques instead of vague advice.

Starting with specific examples of fantastic classroom behavior, your class will end up with one sentence summing up their expectations. It’s a classroom motto!