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 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.