Sentence openers activities

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The Sentence Game Let’s face it, writing is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice to master the many skills a writer needs. But practice can be boring. Not now! I’ve created a sentence writing game your kids will love. With this game they’ll write sentence after sentence without complaining, because it’s a game. It’s very simple, but practices very essential skills- capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The game can be played with 2 or more players. There’s even a way to…

Stretching sentences for writing workshop use with simple sentences, compound sentences and complex.

Silly sentences for space! Roll a space sentence and practicing reading, among other things. Silly sentences are fun and exciting!

Do you need some help with opening and closing statements for writing? I have a list of ideas that will help any student begin their writing or end it with a bang! Opening and closing statements can either make or break the student's final piece of writing. Does their opening statement hook readers? Or does their ending leave the reader hanging? Years ago, I met with a group of teachers to create a list of ideas and examples for opening and closing statements. The list below is what we came…

Sentence Starters Sentence Openings Flashcards or Display - Free Teaching Resources - Print Play Learn Sentence starters or sentence openings for display or printed in multiples to reduce the size to make flashcards. Sentence starters can be used as a prompt to support children in their early writing. A free teaching resource for an EYFS, KS1 & KS2 classroom. Print full size to use as a classroom display or flashcards. These could even be printed as multiples to reduce the size and…

Working on complete sentences? Try this fun Roll a Sentence activity with free printables included! *The free printable pack can be found towards the END of this post! ALuv {currently end of Kindergarten} and I have been working just a bit on making complete sentences {requiring only a subject and predicate}. We talked about making ... Read More about Making Complete Sentences with Roll a Sentence (FREE Printable Included)

Looking for some sentence writing activities for first grade that will help improve their writing skills? With these sentence building, and sentence fixing activities, students can learn about the parts of a sentence (Who, did what, and where). You can even use it as a first grade writing center!

Teaching kids about writing sentences with all the parts of speech can be a bit boring and dry. I vividly remember diagramming sentences as a child and wishing I was doing anything but that! But at the same time, teaching sentence structure and the parts of speech is important for kids to understand. That’s why I ... Read More about Writing Sentences: A Roll and Write Activity