The Parts of a Sentence Differentiated Bundle is everything you need to teach your students about how to write a sentence with Capitals, Punctuation, Subjects & Verbs. These engaging and fun activities & will support your students in learning the parts of a sentence and so they can write and edit their own sentences with less help from you! Whether you're looking for fix the sentence worksheets or comprehensive lessons on sentence structure, this bundle has you covered.

Students will learn how to write a complete sentence through engaging mystery stories in the Sentence Detectives resources.

Throughout the year you can use the interactive activities to develop your students' understanding of subject, verb, capitalization, and punctuation and learn to write a complete sentence! This Parts of a Sentence bundle allows for easy teaching and easy planning which will lead to effective learning.

▶️ Multi-modality based learning is an effective way to reach all students. That's why we include teaching videos to engage students for a complete lesson:

• How to Write a Sentence Teaching Video
• Capitalization Teaching Video
• Punctuation Teaching Video
• Subject Teaching Video
• Verb Teaching Video

**After using this resource with the paired video teaching lesson your students will be able to write a complete sentence and explain the 4 important parts of a sentence with less support from you!

Who is it for?

• Perfect for students in grades 1-3
• Students who are learning how to write
• Students who write incomplete sentences
• Great for small group lessons or independent work
• Use within General Education Classroom, Homeschool, Special Education, ENL, RTI and Speech and Language therapy sessions!

*PLEASE NOTE: These resources will open in Google Slides ™. You can download the slides as a PDF to print or open them on Google Slides™ to use them digitally. 

What is included in the Parts of a Sentence Bundle?

✅ Each Parts of a Sentence activity is paired with a GRASPhopper Teaching Video Lesson

✅ Each Parts of a Sentence activity is digital and print, with review activities and answer keys

✅ Each Parts of a Sentence activity contains sentence-building anchor charts

Resource activities included:

1. Foundational Sentence Writing:

• Counting sentences in short paragraphs
• Identifying the subject & verb in sentences (multiple choice & open response)
• Identifying the capital & punctuation in sentences (multiple choice & open response)
• Sorting sentences by missing parts: subject or verb
• Sorting sentences by missing parts: capital or punctuation
• Fix the sentence worksheets (multiple choice & open response)
  • BONUS: Digital, interactive task cards for fixing incomplete sentences are also included. Separate links for the Google Slides Digital Task Cards are provided in the Table of Contents

• Sentence Building Challenge: Finding & fixing missing parts in paragraphs 
• Write a complete sentence about photos (word bank & open response)
• Drawing pictures based on a question & write a complete sentence about the drawings
• A checklist with drag & drop checkmarks is included on most activities to help students think critically about sentences and make sure the sentence structure is complete with subject, verb, capitalization, and punctuation

2. Capitalization Sentence Detectives

• LEVEL 1:
  • Capital Letter Rule Beginning of a Sentence: Multiple Choice
  • Capital Letter Rule Names: Multiple Choice
  • Capital Letter Rule Places: Multiple Choice
  • Capital Letter Rule Pronoun I: Multiple Choice
  • Capital Letter Rule Calendar: Multiple Choice
  • Capital Letter Rule Titles: Multiple Choice
  • Capital Letter Rule Combined Practice: Multiple Choice

• LEVEL 2:
  • Capital Letter Rule Beginning of a Sentence: Open Response
  • Capital Letter Rule Names: Open Response
  • Capital Letter Rule Places: Open Response
  • Capital Letter Rule Pronoun I: Open Response
  • Capital Letter Rule Calendar: Open Response
  • Capital Letter Rule Titles: Open Response
  • Capital Letter Rule Combined Practice: Open Response

3, Punctuation Sentence Detectives

• LEVEL 1: Multiple Choice 
  • Identify the Correct Punctuation: Period or Question Mark  
  • Identify the Correct Punctuation: Period or Exclamation 
  • Identify the Correct Punctuation: Question Mark or Exclamation 
  • Identify the Correct Punctuation: Period, Question Mark or Exclamation

• LEVEL 2: Open Response
  • Rewrite the Sentence with Correct Punctuation: Period or Question Mark  
  • Rewrite the Sentence with Correct Punctuation: Period or Exclamation 
  • Rewrite the Sentence with Correct Punctuation: Question Mark or Exclamation 
  • Rewrite the Sentence with Correct Punctuation: Period, Question Mark or Exclamation

4. Subject Sentence Detectives

• LEVEL 1: Multiple Choice 
  • Identify the Subject: People
  • Identify the Subject: Animals
  • Identify the Subject: Places
  • Identify the Subject: Things
  • Identify the Subject Practice Stories (People, Animals, Places and Things)

• LEVEL 2: Open Response
  • Underline the Subject: People
  • Underline the Subject: Animals
  • Underline the Subject: Places
  • Underline the Subject: Things
  • Underline the Subject Practice Stories (People, Animals, Places and Things)

• Practice Activities:
  • Identify the Subject Stories (Mixed- People, Animals, Places & Things): Multiple Choice
  • Identify the Subject Stories (Mixed- People, Animals, Places & Things): Underline
  • Writing Practice: Underline the Subject from given sentences about a picture and identify the subject type
  • Writing Practice: Write a sentence that includes a subject about a picture  and identify the subject type

5. Verb Sentence Detectives

• LEVEL 1:  
  • Determine if the Verb is Action Verb Multiple Choice
  • Determine if the Verb is Linking Verb Multiple Choice
  • Determine if the Verb is Helping Verb Multiple Choice
  • Identify the Verb Type: Choose which type of verb is underlined in the sentence- linking verb vs helping verb vs action verb
  • Identify the Verb (mixed types): Choose the verb in the sentence 
  • Writing: Read a sentence about each mystery story, underline the verb, & choose the type 

• LEVEL 2:
  • Determine if the sentence has an Action Verb and Write It: Open Response
  • Determine if the sentence has a Linking Verb and Write It: Open Response
  • Determine if the sentence has a Helping Verb and Write It: Open Response
  • Determine the Verb Type: Write which type of verb is underlined in the sentence- linking verb vs helping verb vs action verb: Open Response 
  • Determine the Verb (mixed types): Write the verb found in the sentence: Open Response
  • Writing: Write a sentence about each mystery story, underline the verb, & write the type: Open Response

More GRASPhopper Resources:

• Christmas Writing a Sentence
• Story Retell and Sequencing Seasonal Bundle
• Writing a Complete Sentence Seasonal Bundle

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