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A strategy for writin g good sentences

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A strategy fo

r writin

g good sentences

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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.

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You may want to take notes

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Capital Letter at beginning

Punctuation (.?!) at end

Contains a subject

Contains a verb

Makes sense

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The formula for a simple sentence is:

SS VV Subject VerbSubject Verb

Other sentences have other formulasWe will learn these later

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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)

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Choice for our verb

Played

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That completes step E

CatSubject Verb

Played

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Write the words you have chosen

Remember: You need a capital letter at

the beginning

Punctuation at the end

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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?

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Ask yourselfAsk yourselfDoes my sentence

meet the 5 requirements?

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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

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the horse ran the horse ran fast.fast.

Here’s what I got!

How’d you do?

TTSS VV

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Peter swims every day

Here’s what I got

SS VV

.

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My cat ate me.Here’s what I

got!

SS ScratchedVV

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I like pizzaI like pizzaHere’s what I

got

SS VV..

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