2. Benchmark Curriculum: Early Elementary Meaning and Communication This benchmark includes; developing fluency for multiple purposes, recognize that authors make choices to convey meaning and influence an audience, begin to plan and draft texts, and begin to edit text and discuss language convention. This Power Point will focus on sentence structure and language convention and being able to plan and draft texts.
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5. YES! Climb a tree is not a sentence. Why? -It does not express a complete thought. We wonder who climbed a tree? Where did they climb a tree? Why did they climb a tree? -By adding more information we can make it a complete thought. -The cat climbed the tree when she heard the dog bark.
6. REMEMBER! A sentence needs to: -Start with a capital letter -Have an end mark -Make sense
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13. -I went to the store with my mom, and we arrived home very late. -Compound -My dad threw the football to Billy. -Simple -Some students don’t do their homework. -Simple -The teachers at school are nice, but some give too much homework. -Compound Check your answers:
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17. Make all corrections to these sentences: i went to the store today and bought a lot of candy my Mom said she would buy me a video game but she never did who did you see this weekend climb a tree Check your answers
18. Check your answers: I went to the store today , and bought a lot of candy M y m om said she would buy me a video game , but she never did ! W ho did you see this weekend ? C limb a tree when your mom isn’t looking.
19. We can now take what we’ve learned and apply it to many different things; -writing stories, poems, letters, papers -correcting our own work -correcting our neighbors work -reading
