Building sentences
Understand that words combine to make sentences — a sentence expresses a complete thought; produce and expand complete sentences in speech and writing
What a learner can do afterwards
- Distinguish between complete sentences and fragments
- Compose a complete sentence with a subject and verb
- Expand a simple sentence by adding detail
1 · Read
A sentence tells a whole idea so a friend knows what you mean. It names someone or something, then tells what they do.
Mia says, 'The cat.' That does not tell what happened. She adds words: 'The cat slept.' Now it is complete.
You can always add more words to tell more. 'The cat slept on the mat.' Still one sentence.
A sentence names who or what, then tells what happened. You can always add more detail.
The rewritten readings were written for this dataset.
2 · Watch
Take it off screen
Where it sits
Learn first
Nothing; this is a starting point.
This opens up
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
23 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.