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Sub-Jet Pretty Kit
Writers Workshop Daily Plan Conventions
1. Mini-Lesson Focus:
Procedural
Process
Trait
Conventions
ELACC3L1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing or speaking.
Meet Sub-ject and Pretty-Kit In this minilesson, students will work on be discussing the basic parts of a
sentence, the subject and predicate. Tell students that in order to be a complete sentence, a sentence needs
to have a subject and predicate. One without the other is not complete. (a fragment) Tell the attached
story about two best friends. Don’t skip the movement piece! Students will remember better if you give
them a movement to attach to it. If you feel that the attached song will help as well, sing it with your class.
Tell them that during Writer’s Workshop today that they will be pulling a piece from the writing folder to
search for subjects and predicates. Have them make a list to bring back to share.
2. Status of Class
3. Student Writing/Teacher Conferring
4. Author Share:
Student
Teacher
Call students back to meeting area. Teacher shares a few observations of writing while conferring. Have
the students get knee-knee to a partner and let them share the subjects and predicates they found in their
sentences.
Materials
Mini-Lesson: 10 minutes
Status of Class: 5 minutes
Write/Confer: 25 minutes
Sharing:
5 minutes
Whiteboard and marker
Attached song
Attached story
Voice Thread version of story
Writer’s Workshop Reminder
For the most part, allow students to decide
what they will write about. The more the
students care about the writing, the better the
writing will be. (They do need to know how
to write to a prompt, so we need to teach them
that as a test-taking strategy. The bulk of their
writing, however, should be about something
that they choose.)
Literature Connection
Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate
DiCamillo
Let all
your favorite authors be your coteachers! Every book has sentences with
subjects and predicates!
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Sub-Jet Pretty Kit
SUBJECTS! PREDICATES!
to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It!"
The subject tells who does it or who was!
The subject tells who does it or who was!
The subject tells who does it!
The subject tells who was it!
The subject tells who does it or who was!
The predicate tells what he did or what he is!
The predicate tells what he did or what he is!
The predicate tells what he did.
The predicate tells what he is!
The predicate tells what he did or what he is!
From Chalkboard Songs, copyright Suzy Red, 1992, Lockhart, Texas
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Sub-Jet Pretty Kit
Sub-Ject and Pretty-Kit
Put on your “bling” and cool sunglasses. (Your “bling” may
be a chain with the letter N on it.) Strut into the room,
exuding a cool, confident personality. Stop and look at
students and say something like, “Yo! What’s up? My
name is Sub-Ject. Everything is ALL ABOUT ME.” (You
may want to cross your arms in front of your chest to give
the students a movement to remember subject.) Ask
students, “Who’s it all about?” They should respond, “SubJect!” (crossing their arms in front of their chest.) “Yeah,
it’s ALL ABOUT ME. This letter N on my chain stands for
NOUN.” Ask students again, “Who’s it all about?” They
answer “Sub-Ject!” (crossing their arms) Then ask, “What
does the N stand for?” They respond, “NOUN!”
Take off the “bling” and sunglasses and put arms down to
sides and look very demure. Change your voice to a frilly,
girly voice and say, “Hi. I am Pretty-Kit and I follow Subject wherever he goes. I show action, (do a jumping jack) I
link (making linking movements with hands) and I help
(spread arms in a helpful gesture.) Say, “What is my
name?” Students respond, “Pretty-Kit!” “What do I do?”
“You help, link, or show action!” (Students should be doing
movements to match.)
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