Language Work - Subjects and Predicates

Since most of you are spending lots of time during your independent reading intervention working on responses, and since you did such a great job with prepositions, we're going to add some language work to your weekly independent reading assignments. Sounds fun, right?! Let's get to it!

On your language pretest, almost everyone bombed the subject and predicate sections, which we all pretty much knew would happen since we've never talked about any of that before. So let's talk about it, shall we?!

I bet I know what your first questions are: What is a subject? What is a predicate? Simply put, a subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about. The predicate tells something about the subject - usually the action of the sentence.

Here, watch this School House Rock video and you'll see what I mean:

 
Mr. Morton was the subject of all of the sentences in that song. The various things he did were the predicates of each sentence. Need more help understanding? Watch this short prezi: http://prezi.com/_af1oxhxetzw/subjects-and-predicates/

Your assignment for the week is to identify the subject and predicate of five sentences from your independent reading book. It should look like this:

 

Just simply write the sentence out and then circle the subject and underline the predicate. Do that with five sentences and you're done! Check in with me throughout the week if you have questions or just want to see if you're doing it correctly. Have fun! :)