The first day we did this activity, we had already had some background lessons on subjects and predicates. The kids cut out dice templates that I had created. Each group of two students created one subject and one predicate die.
Once they were created, the students rolled both of the dice to create sentences. Some of the sentences made sense and some were silly! My students loved it! They thought it was hilarious and I could hear from their conversations that they were using the words “subject” and “predicate” throughout the whole activity.
My students used the recording sheet to write down their sentences and after they created 5 sentences, they were able to illustrate their favorite sentence.
A classroom favorite was, “My teacher ran around the barn and rolled in the mud.”
If you are interested and doing this with your class, you can check out my TPT Store to download it.
Eleanne Varner says
I love this idea, you keep the students happy and working! Great idea to teach them language arts!
Thanks for posting,
Eleanne Varner