Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases Part II of II - HIT

Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching phrases, subject verb agreement, prepositions, and more!

 

Quick Review of Part I of This Two Part Series (#51):

• CAVES—Capital, All makes sense, Verb, End mark, Subject; how to teach students to
  recognize a sentence with that acronym (see my CAVES posters and reference ring cards
  here! (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentence-Building-Posters-and-Reference-Rings-Grammar-Posters-6978892)
• How to help students memorize MANY subordinators
• The value of using check sentences and mnemonics and clues!
• Using weekly Think Fast Grammar Quizzes from 3rd grade on to memorize parts of
  speech (Beginner and Advanced)

On to this week’s content:

• Differences between phrases and clauses
• Reasons for learning prepositions
• How to teach where a prepositional phrase begins and where it ends
• How to teach students more than one hundred prepositions (Hint: Use one
  of these packets from my TPT store— Bugs on a Log, Beauty and Beast
  Preposition Packet, or Preposition Packet)
• Writing with prepositional phrases
• Isolating prepositional phrases to locate and match subject/verb
• Punctuating sentences with prepositional phrase openers
• Much more!

 

 

It’s all here in this week’s HIT––where each week, I bring you tips, tricks, and techniques for teaching writing, language arts, grammar, and more (to grades two through twelve) drawing upon my 100+ curriculum books totaling over 50,000 pages.

Note: This lesson came from The Write Right Quick Kit, an upper level, teacher, parent downloadable book!

 

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