Simple Sentence Building

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Construction vehicles building playground

🏗️ Part 1: Identifying Simple Sentences

WALT: Understand and create simple sentences with clear subjects and predicates.

1. Which of these is a complete simple sentence about our new playground?

The big yellow digger.

The digger moves dirt.

Moving lots of rocks and.

Near the playground area.

2. Circle the subject (who or what the sentence is about) in this sentence:

The truck carries heavy rocks to the building site.

3. Which words make up the predicate (what the subject does) in this sentence?

The workers build our new playground.

The workers

build our new playground

new playground

our new

4. Check all the complete simple sentences:

Children play on swings.

The muddy ground.

Workers dig holes.

Big machines and tools.

✏️ Part 2: Building Your Own Sentences

5. Complete these sentences about our playground construction. Make sure each has a subject and predicate:

a) The yellow digger ________________________________.

b) _________________________ carries dirt in its tray.

c) Our new playground ________________________________.

6. Write three simple sentences about the playground using these words. You can add other words too:

Word bank: truck, digger, dirt, rocks, build, dig, play, new

7. For each sentence you wrote above, underline the subject in blue and the predicate in red.

8. Extension Challenge: Write a short story about the playground construction using only simple sentences (4-5 sentences):

🎯 Success Check

9. Tick the success criteria you have achieved today:

I can write at least three simple sentences about the new playground.

I can identify the subject and predicate in sentences.

I can share my sentences clearly with others.

I used new vocabulary words correctly.

10. What is one thing you learned about simple sentences today?

Simple Sentence Building

Simple Sentence Building

🏗️ Part 1: Identifying Simple Sentences

✏️ Part 2: Building Your Own Sentences

🎯 Success Check

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