✏️A complete sentence has three jobs: start with a capital, keep spaces between the words, and end with the right mark. This four-week unit teaches those three jobs one at a time, with twenty daily lessons, eleven anchor charts, picture writing at two levels, and a Sentence of the Day routine that keeps the skills warm.
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Complete sentences are the first writing skill that has to be taught, not caught. This four-week unit teaches them directly: 20 step-by-step daily lessons, each with a teaching point, materials, a teacher model, student practice and share time, covering capitals, spaces and punctuation one piece at a time. The packet includes a four-week unit plan, a daily lesson schedule and a two-level differentiation guide, so the same lesson fits a kindergartner and a first grader.
Eleven anchor charts carry the teaching: What Is a Sentence?, How to Write a Sentence, Spaces, Capital Letters, Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark, Naming and Telling Parts, Sentence or Not?, Make It Bigger, and 5-Star Sentence. The weekly activities build in order — week one is sentence or not, counting words and “I See a ___” stems; week two adds capitals, finger spaces and Space Buddies; week three teaches the three end marks and naming and telling parts; week four puts it together with Fix It! and Make It Bigger.
The writing practice is daily and small. Eight picture-writing prompts come at two levels — a sentence stem and word bank at Level 1, open writing and a word bank at Level 2 — and five Sentence of the Day activities (Read It, Count It, Fix It, Draw It) keep the skills warm between lessons. A Show What You Know pre and post assessment, a sentence-writing rubric and 5-Star Sentence bookmarks close the unit with a check that students grew.
Family resources keep the learning visible at home: a family letter and sound-spelling home-support tips. The Sentence Superstar crown and award give the unit a celebration at the end, and complete answer keys cover every activity. It fits writers' workshop, grammar lessons, writing centers, morning work, small groups and homeschool.
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The unit teaches sentences the way young children learn anything: one small skill at a time, modeled every day, practiced the same day, and checked at the end. The anchor charts stay on the wall as the reference children actually use, the two levels keep the same lesson within reach for a kindergartner and a first grader, and Sentence of the Day turns capitals, spaces and end marks into a habit instead of a worksheet.
Kindergarten and 1st grade, with homeschool. The lessons, activities and picture writing all run at two levels so the same unit fits both grades.
Four weeks, with 20 step-by-step daily lessons. The packet includes a 4-week unit plan, a daily lesson schedule and a two-level differentiation guide.
Capitals, finger spaces and the three end marks — period, question mark and exclamation mark — plus naming and telling parts, sentence or not, counting words, unscrambling sentences and making sentences bigger.
A Show What You Know pre and post assessment, a sentence-writing rubric and 5-Star Sentence bookmarks, plus complete answer keys for all activities.
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