Elementary School Sentence Writing
Course Overview
Students will learn to write and revise their own complete sentences, with descriptive details. Gaining knowledge on the four sentence types as well as subject-verb agreement, students will write sentences correctly, and with confidence.
Course Objectives
Unit 1 – Types of Sentences: Declarative and Interrogative
Objective: The student will be able to identify and create declarative and interrogative sentences.
Unit 2 – Types of sentences : Imperative and Exclamatory
Objective: The student will be identifying and creating imperative and exclamatory sentences.
Unit 3 – Noun Plurals and Possessives
Objective: The student will be able to create the plural forms and possessive forms of nouns.
Unit 4 – Subject – Verb Agreement
Objective: The student will make verbs agree with their subjects in number.
Unit 5 – Punctuation: Commas
Objective: The student will understand the rules for and use correct comma placement.
Unit 6 – It + is = It’s a lot of fun learning about contractions!
Objective: The student will understand and use the rules for forming contractions (shortened forms of two words).
Unit 7 – Oh Dear! Words Often Confused: Homophones, Homonyms, and more
Objective: The student will be able to correctly identify and spell words that are often confused with other words.
Unit 8 – Put Your Thinking Caps On! What Have You Learned?
Objective: The student will create and proofread sentences using all of the skills you studied in this eight-unit course.