the pens strategy
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A strategy for writin
g good sentences
Get better grades on Get better grades on assignmentsassignments
Get higher scores on my Get higher scores on my writing probeswriting probes
Helps get me out of Helps get me out of special ed.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:
SS VV Subject VerbSubject Verb
Other sentences have other formulasWe 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
CatSubject 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 wordscat playedthe
How about the word “the”?
What other words should we add to
this to make sense?
Ask yourselfAsk yourselfDoes my sentence
meet the 5 requirements?
Do you remember our
sentence?
cat playedhetDoes 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 the horse ran fast.fast.
Here’s what I got!
How’d you do?
TT SS VV
Peter swims every day
Here’s what I got
SS VV
.
My cat ate me.Here’s what I
got!
SS ScratchedVV
I like pizzaI like pizzaHere’s what I
got
SS VV..
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