A strategy for writing good sentences

 Get better grades on assignments  Get higher scores on my writing probes  Helps get me out of special ed.

You may want to take notes

Capital Letter at beginning Punctuation (.?!) at end Contains a subject Contains a verb Makes sense

The formula for a simple sentence is: SVSVSVSV Subject Verb Subject Verb Other sentences have other formulas We will learn these later

What kinds of words can we pick for the subject? - Person, Place, Thing, Ideas What kinds of words can we pick for the verb? - Action words (physical/mental)

Choice for our verb Played

That completes step E Cat Subject Verb Played

Write the words you have chosen Remember:  You need a capital letter at the beginning  Punctuation at the end

So now write your words We write our words cat playedthe How about the word “the”? What other words should we add to this to make sense?

Ask yourself Does my sentence meet the 5 requirements?

Do you remember our sentence? cat played het Does it start with a capital letter? Let’s Change it!! T Does It have a subject and a verb? Subject Verb Does it have punctuation? Let’s add it. Now let’s do some together

the horse ran fast. Here’s what I got! How’d you do? TSV

Peter swims every day Here’s what I gotSV.

My cat ate me. Here’s what I got! S ScratchedV

I like pizza Here’s what I gotSV.