1. NARRATIVE REVISION AND EDITING SIMPLE SENTENCES

2. REVISING

3. SIMPLE SENTENCE/ INDEPENDENT CLAUSE MAN S P Subject Predicate Who or what the sentence is about. [The Noun} What the subject is, does, did, or is doing.

4. WHERE DO YOU SPLIT THE SUBJECT AND THE PREDICATE?

5. ACTION VERBS What the subject is doing, did, or is doing. Play Simon Says with the students and explain that what they are doing is the verb.

6. HELPING VERBS

7. UNDERLINE THE SUBJECT ONCE, UNDERLINE THE PREDICATE TWICE, AND BOX IN THE VERB. The Pretty Princess and Big Bertha walked into the youth center and saw that no one was there. Little Laney was crying, “Nobody wanted to come to my birthday party, wahhhhhh.” The Pretty Princes grabbed her ruby gem cell phone and sent a magical mass text message. The frog is green. The frog shall not kiss the princess.

8. REVISE YOUR OWN PERSONAL NARRATIVE Grab 4 colored pencils of your choice. 1.Now go back to your own narrative and bracket each sentence in one color while at the sometime ensuring that all sentences start with a capital letter, and that they have ending punctuation. 2. Underline the subject once with the 2 nd color 3. Underline the predicate twice with the 3 rd color 4. Box in the verb with the 4 th color

9. EDITING Capitalization Rules Ending Marks

12. NOW PUBLISH YOUR OWN PERSONAL NARRATIVE