Hello!
Happy Sunday!
We’ve been working on sentences for the past month or so in our 2nd Grade classroom. We’ve covered capitals and ending marks, and all the different types of sentences with
Naming and Telling is 2nd Grade speak for Subject and Predicate for all you fancy folk.
For some extra practice, I took a bunch of sentence strips and wrote various naming and telling parts on each one.
I just grabbed strips. They weren’t color coded for the most part {even though it looks like it here}. I thought color coded would be too easy.
I made a “correct” match for each sentence, but I also anticipated {and hoped for} some super silly sentences to be built once the students walked around and found their naming or telling partner. The silly sentences were 10 times more engaging for them, and they still were exposed to the concept. WIN! WIN!
I handed out the sentence strips face down. Students flipped them over, read them, and decided whether they had the naming or telling portion of a sentence. Then they set out to find their mate ;)
Once everyone partnered up, each pair read their sentence, and giggles ensued. We did about 5 rounds and it didn’t even get old! Imagine that!
I followed up the sentence strip activity with a partner worksheet. I had my students who definitely “got it” fill out the telling portion, and my guys who were still struggling were assigned the naming part. Then we switched papers and completed our sentences. You can grab the printables below if they would help your class.
Click HERE to grab them!
I strongly suggest the sentence strip activity first. If only for a few giggles.
And you know I love *notes*, so leave me one or two if you find this activity useful!
Have a good night everyone :)
-Halle
