Struggling Writers
They were struggling with writing and their classroom teachers were concerned that they were not progressing with the whole group instruction. The second-grade team asked me to pull these kids and provide an intervention with this group.
These students were unable to write a complete sentence. So, I broke a sentence down into its parts and had them learn to create the concept of a complete sentence using pictures.
They had trouble seeing the difference in the pictures. The kids did not see that some pictures were things, people, or animals (subject) and the other pictures were showing an action, what an object was doing or what it was like (predicate). We spent a significant amount of time talking about the pictures and learning how to view and analyze the pictures.
I wanted them to see that the subject part of a sentence is a noun or pronoun.
Then we tackled the predicate part of the sentence, with the understanding that it is the action part of the sentence or tells what the subject is like.
We did a lot of sorting to help them see the difference between a subject and a predicate. They did this with labeled pictures, non-labeled pictures, and word cards. 
As they began progressing and correctly identifying the subject and the predicate, then I had them cut and paste the sentence puzzles to create a complete sentence.
Next, they moved on to writing either the subject or the predict part of the sentence.
Finally, they highlighted the parts of the sentence. Now, they could see that a sentence has 2 parts. Now, the girls had the idea of what made a sentence a complete sentence and they were writing them!
It was time to send them back into their classroom for the whole group lessons.
I have put these activities together in a packet, Sentences: Subject and Predicate.
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