Practice combining actions, people, and things

Practice combining actions, people, and things

By the amazing Mrs. Blair

Lesson objective- writing sentences combining actions, people, and things

Success criteria: Students will be able to accurately combine actions, people, and things.

Why are we doing this?

This is practice for your quill.org homework for this week.

Also, being able to do this in your own writing makes your writing more pleasant to read.

Combining actions

Also known as verbs.

The subject (Thor) is the same but he is doing two actions.

Open Ended

Let's practice combining actions.

Hulk smashes the building.

Hulk punches the building.

Combining people

In these sentences, two different people (or subjects) are doing the same action.

Open Ended

Let's practice combining people.

Dr. Strange lives in New York.

Iron Man lives in New York.

Combining things

These sentences occur when we have the same subject and action.

We are combining what they do with the action.

Open Ended

Let's practice combining things!

Iron Man creates suits.

Iron Man creates buildings.

Open Ended

Let's do two more.

Kids like Tik Tok.

Kids like Instagram.

Open Ended

Last one

Jellyfish sting people.

Bees sting people.