Subjects and Predicates

This week, we are talking about subjects and predicates in Grammar. Complete sentences are made up of two parts: the subject (the who or whom the sentence is about) and the predicate (the words that tell something about the subject or the "action" of the subject).

We started by taking some notes (students filled in the bold terms):

 Next, we watched a School House Rock video about subjects and predicates:

Then, we talked about why we need to learn about subjects and predicates (it gives us common vocabulary to talk about writing; it helps us communicate / write clearly).

Finally, we practiced our skills by identifying subjects and predicates in our Practice Books. We will be adding this step to our morning Daily Language practice. On the sentences we edit, we will underline the subject once and double underline the predicate twice.

Learning, one complete thought (sentence) at a time!