EXERCISE 4 Have students complete this exercise independently. Ask partners to compare their answers.
Have students use a government site to research their country. You may wish to provide appropriate sites for students to use.
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Reteach Write the following on the board:
What happens at school? As students answer the question, write their sentences on the board:
ASSESS
APPLY IT NOW After students have completed the exercise, invite volunteers to write their sentences on the board. Ask students to identify the complete subjects and complete predicates. Students should demonstrate an understanding of identifying and using complete subjects and complete predicates in sentences.
TEACHING OPTIONS
Note which students had difficulty identifying and using complete subjects and complete predicates in sentences. Assign Practice Book page 8 for further practice.
WRITING CONNECTION
Use pages 216–217 of the Writing portion of the book.
The students play at recess. The teacher reads aloud a mystery. The principal visits our classroom. Invite volunteers to underline the complete subject with a single line and the complete predicate with a double line. Ask the rest of the class if they agree. Discuss why each complete subject and complete predicate has been properly identified.
Meeting Individual Needs Auditory Read aloud some short sentences. Have students repeat the sentences. Say each sentence again more slowly. Tell students to raise one hand when they hear the subject of the sentence and to raise both hands when they hear the predicate. Once students have mastered the activity, vary it by saying some incomplete sentences.
EXERCISE 2 Find the complete predicate in each sentence.
1. Now the students know the names of all the Seven Wonders. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
The Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza for a Pharaoh’s tomb. A 40-foot statue of Zeus stood in a temple in Greece. Only images on coins depict that statue. An ancient statue on the island of Rhodes dominated the harbor. The Statue of Liberty looks a little like that statue. The Pharos of Alexandria guided sailors. The word pharos was the Greek word for “lighthouse.” The Hanging Gardens of Babylon grew on terraces.
10. Drawings show archaeologists’ ideas about the gardens. EXERCISE 3 Find the complete subject and the complete predicate in each sentence. 1. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was on a Greek island. 2. Ships used it as a guide to the harbor entrance for
Meeting Individual Needs
nearly 1,500 years.
3. An earthquake toppled the lighthouse in 14 A.D. 4. Archaeologists do not know any details about the lighthouse. EXERCISE 4 Use a complete subject or a
complete predicate from the list below to finish each sentence.
1.
The Great Pyramid
are triangles
is 449 feet high
The Egyptians
The Maya people
is the only ancient wonder that still stands.
2. The Great Pyramid
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used two million blocks of stone
3. to build it.
4. also built pyramids. 5. The sides of the pyramids
Write four sentences about a country that interests you.
Common Core Standards
Underline each complete subject once. Underline each
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CCSS.ELA.L.4.1f CCSS.ELA.W.4.7
complete predicate twice. Example: Australia is a country and also a continent.
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With an adult, research the country online.
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Challenge Have students write a noun about a favorite vacation spot for each of the following three categories: a person, a place, and a thing. Then have students write a verb they could pair with each noun. Encourage students to use the noun and verb pairs to write sentences about the spot they chose. Ask students to underline in their sentences the complete subject once and the complete predicate twice.
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