Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 3, Language Arts Language Expression: Identify correctly and effectively written sentences (COS 19, 21, 26, 27/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Be the Sentence- An Interactive Language Arts Activity Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation. Students progress from simple sentences to more complex sentences. Stop the Run-On! Run-on sentences inhibit understanding and weaken someone's writing. In this lesson, students learn to identify run-on sentences and how to fix them. They will then apply those skills to their own writing. Sentence Carousel Adjectives, adverbs, and precise language help construct descriptive sentences. In this lesson, students will learn to construct more elaborate sentences that will enliven their writing. Let's Make Sense This lesson focuses on writing sentences in a logical order while using correct capitalization and punctuation.

Resources: Making Sentences Games: Here are three games that will help students discern properly written sentences. Sing About Sentences: This song tells about correctly constructed sentences. Read the lyrics and listen to the music. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students copy correctly and effectively written sentences off the board for practice. (D, E) Students keep a writing log in which teachers create sentences that are incorrect that students self-correct or work in small groups to correct.
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