Reviewing Sentences & Building Fluency

Creating Sentences & sentence Fluency

By Dawn McCoy

Objective:

to create fluid sentences When writing

​fluent (n): the state of being smooth; able to read, speak, or write with ease

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Vocabulary:

Let's Review

sentences

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Poll

Every complete sentence needs a SUBJECT and a PREDICATE.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Who or what the sentence is about is called the

• subject

• predicate

Multiple Choice

The action or state of being of the sentence is called the

• subject

• predicate

creating sentences

A sentence is a complete idea made up of words placed in an order that makes sense.

​A complete sentence MUST have a subject and a predicate.

put these phrases in order to make a sentence

___(1)___ ___(2)___ grandparents ___(3)___.

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​on the weekend

​I call

​my

Great job!

Now let's learn how to make our sentences fluent!​

put these phrases in order to make a sentence

Mom, ___(1)___ ___(2)___ the class spelling ___(3)___ ___(4)___.

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won

​bee

​I

​today

Creating Sentence Fluency

When you write, you want to make sure that your writing is fluent, which means that the sentences flow smoothly into each other. When writing is fluent, readers feel alert and engaged. Using a variety of short and long sentences helps to achieve sentence fluency. Using transitional words or phrases also adds to fluency and helps readers to understand how ideas are connected to each other. Including the four types of sentences within your writing will help to make your writing smooth and interesting. Let's take a look at the 4 types of sentences

• makes a statement or tells something

• is punctuated by a period (.)​

​​Declarative

• asks a question

• is punctuated by a question mark​ (?)

​​Interrogative

expresses emotion or excitement

is punctuated by an exclamation mark (!)​

​​Exclamatory

​is a command or polite request

is punctuated by a period (.) or exclamation mark (!)​

​​imperative

Multiple Choice

What type of sentence is the following:  Clean your room. 

• Declarative
• Interrogative
• Exclamatory
• Imperative

Multiple Choice

What type of sentence is the following:  Can I have a piece of your pizza?  

• Declarative
• Interrogative
• Exlcamatory
• Imperative

Multiple Choice

What type of sentence is the following:  It is cold outside today.

• Declarative
• Interrogative
• Exclamatory
• Imperative

Multiple Choice

What type of sentence is the following:  I am so happy!

• Declarative
• Interrogative
• Exclamatory
• Imperative

• alternate using short and long sentences

• use different types and styles of sentences

  • simple

  • compound

  • sentence types

    • ​imperative

    • declarative

    • interrogative

    • exclamatory​

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Achieving sentence fluency in your writing

• use transitional words and phrases

  • these words & phrases ​connect our ideas together like a bridge

• use conjunctions to combine related ideas or sentences​

  • FANBOYS

    • for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

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Achieving sentence fluency in your writing

​Read the paragraph? What problem do you see with it?

The paragraph contained many short, choppy sentences. Let's fix it to make it flow more smoothly

• take away sentences that add only one detail about the subject

• insert those details into other sentences​

Let's fix it

Open Ended

Read the paragraph. Notice how choppy the sentences make the paragraph. Rewrite the paragraph below by making it more fluent.

HINT: use conjunctions to combine related ideas into one sentence

Here is one way to make the paragraph more fluent.

Open Ended

What is one way to make sentences/paragraphs more fluent?

Answer using complete sentences.