How to Teach Writing Sentences

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Laura from YoungWritersWorkshops.com. I am going to talk about how to teach sentence writing. A sentence is a complete thought. Now you can help your students write good sentences by helping them think of each sentence as a thought with an action and recipient of the action. Start by having them write very simple sentences such as a noun and a verb. "The boy ran." Or "Alice sat." Now, you can add on to these sentences by pulling in descriptive words, adverbs, adjectives, help them to build a sentence from the ground up. This can be a fun activity too. Teaching sentences, you can actually make it a game by giving them a chart with different lists of nonsense words and letting them choose from each column to build a sentence. The ultimate goal that you have is for them to be able to write a sentence on their own, and then begin to put the sentences together into some writing. Some of the tools that you can use to build the sentences, as I mentioned, are games, lists of words that they can combine, and the peer revision that you have used in other parts of your writing workshop for other kids to get them some help in expanding their sentences. Those are some ideas about how to teach sentence writing."