Under Construction:
Building Sentences with a Bubble Map
Start Your Bubble Map
1. Write your topic in the middle of a piece of paper.
2. Draw a circle or box around it.
Things I like to do
This will be the topic of your sentence.
Add Ideas to Your Bubble Map
3. Draw a line from your box or circle.
4. Write one idea about your topic at the end of each line.
5. Draw a box or circle around each idea.
Ride my bike
This will be the idea for
your sentence.
Things I like to do
Add Details to Your Bubble Map
6. Use question words to help you think about things
you can say about each idea.
WHEN
do
WHO
do
to
ride
WHERE
doII like
I liketo
toride
ridemy
bike?
my
my bike
bike?with?
In
After
my
school
back
yard
oo My
mom
and
dad
On brother
the
Saturdays
sidewalk
oo My
and sister
In
Before
the
park
school
oo My
friends
Add Details to Your Bubble Map
7. Draw a line from each idea box.
8. Write one answer for each of your questions at the end of each line.
9. Draw a box or circle around each detail.
After school
With my mom
WHO do I like
to ride my
bike with?
WHEN do I like
to ride my bike?
These will be details that you
can add to your sentence.
On the sidewalk
Ride my bike
WHERE do I like
to ride my bike?
Idea
Things
I like to do
Topic
Build a Sentence with a Bubble Map
Study the structure of the sentence.
−What is the idea?
−What are the details?
I like to ride my bike on the sidewalk .
IDEA
DETAIL
Putting a Sentence Together
I like to
.
IDEA
DETAIL
I like to
.
IDEA
DETAIL
Can you think of more ways to add more details to a sentence?
Building a Sentence
1. Make the bubble map into a puzzle.
2. Use the pieces to fill-in different sentence structures.
IDEAS
DETAILS
On the sidewalk
Ride my bike
With my mom
After school
How many different
sentences can you build?
Building a Sentence
Use the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.
I like to
after school .
ride my bike
IDEA
DETAIL
IDEAS
Ride my bike
DETAILS
After school
With my mom
On the
sidewalk
Building a Sentence
Use the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.
After school I like to
with my mom .
ride my bike
IDEA
DETAIL
IDEAS
Ride my bike
DETAIL
DETAILS
After school
With my mom
On the
sidewalk
Building a Sentence
Use the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.
I like to
ride my bike
with my mom
on the sidewalk .
DETAIL
DETAIL
IDEA
IDEAS
Ride my bike
DETAILS
After school
With my mom
On the
sidewalk
Building a Sentence
Use the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.
After school
I like to
ride my bike
with my mom
IDEA
DETAIL
IDEAS
Ride my bike
DETAIL
DETAILS
After school
With my mom
On the
sidewalk
on the sidewalk .
DETAIL