Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Students write sentences using a "recipe."

Objective: Students will practice writing correct sentences, identifying simple subjects and simple predicates, and creating more descriptive sentences.

Activity: Pairs of students draw a "recipe" (topic) card from a deck of teacher made cards. Each card names a topic and lists several "ingredients" (questions) students are to consider when writing their sentence. They choose various colors of construction paper and markers to build a sentence in the shape of a submarine sandwich. Each part of the sandwich has a word in the sentence written on it. The top bun has the first word and is capitalized, and the bottom bun will have an ending punctuation mark (. or !). Use worksheets, quizzes, and creative writing activities to reinforce learning.

Assessment: Completion and competency on worksheets and quizzes.