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Lesson Plan

Let's Shake on It!

Students will enjoy thinking about subject and verbs as two parts that must work together to form a clear idea. Students will create mixed-up sentences as a class, then write funny stories that peers can revise.
Grade:
Fourth Grade
Subjects:
English Language Arts
Grammar and Mechanics
Subjects and Predicates
View aligned standards
L.4.3

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to revise sentences so that subjects and verbs agree.

Introduction

(10 minutes)
  • Split the class into two groups.
  • Have half of the class write a subject on their index card and the other half write a predicate.
  • Encourage the subject group to include both singular and plural subjects. Example subjects:* the snowman*, my pet frog, the yellow school buses. Example predicates: go over the speed limit, melted in the sun, hops across the pond.
  • Put all of the subjects in one container and all of the predicates in another container.
  • Select one subject and one predicate and put them together to read a sentence to the class. Some of the combinations will agree and some of them won’t, since you will get a random mix of singular and plural.