Writing a sentence

Ages 6 to 8 Read together, then try alone · about 15 minutes

Read together

A sentence tells a whole idea. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.

“The dog runs.” That is a sentence. “The dog” is not, because we want to know what it does.

Every sentence needs someone or something, and what they do.

Do it

1. Choose a picture or something you did today.
2. Write one sentence about it. Check: capital letter? Space between words? Full stop?
3. Write three more sentences about the same thing. Read them aloud.
4. Swap with someone, and check each other's sentences with a smile.

Talk about it

• What does your sentence say?
• What could you add to make it clearer?

For the grown-up

Children at this age are learning that writing is spoken thought on paper. Praise the ideas first and the spelling second. In Spanish, questions begin with ¿ and end with ?, and exclamations begin with ¡ and end with !.

Mark as done

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