Subjects and Predicates Worksheet and Activity: A Language Craftivity

Is the topic "subjects and predicates" a new or particularly challenging topic for your students? If so, you might want to check out this worksheet and activity that will provide your students with a visual reference when identifying subjects and predicates within sentences.

This activity provides a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice identifying the subjects and predicates within sentences on a worksheet.

A brief overview of how I use the resources included in this packet:

1. I begin this lesson by using the included TEACHING POSTER.
2. I place the ADDITIONAL PRACTICE WORKSHEET under the doc camera, and we work together to find subjects and predicates within sentences.
3. I guide my students in assembling an INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK page that focuses on subjects and predicates. This product includes train clip art and directions for that page.
4. I give students the CRAFTIVITY WORKSHEET, where they identify the subject and predicate within a sentence.
5. Finally, they begin assembling the CRAFTIVITY PIECES. Students choose a few sentences from the worksheet, and they rewrite the subjects on the train engines, and they rewrite the predicates on the train cars.

The finished craftivities make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! It can also be used as a novel entry in an interactive notebook!

Student-friendly directions are included so that you can place the directions under your document camera, and students can refer to them as they complete the project. An answer key is also included. Also, you get to choose whether to use the printable version or the paperless Google Slides format.

I designed this activity to help my students understand that a sentence is only complete when it contains a subject and a predicate. After completing this activity, students will have a visual connection in their schema that will hopefully allow them to remember how to write a complete sentence. When students write a sentence missing a subject (as some of my ELL's often do), I plan to simply remind them that they are missing "the subject engine on their sentence train".

Check out the PREVIEW to view both the printable option and the Google Slides option!

Here's what teachers like you had to say about using this activity with their students:

⭐️ The Sweet and Sassy Teacher said, "This is a very cute craftivity for subjects and predicates. My students loved it and it really helped them master the concept. Great resource!"

⭐️ Alexandra H. said, My students loved this! They were able to identify the subjects and predicates on the worksheet and then produce them on the trains. It was great!"

⭐️ Yaneickia H. said, "I used this resource to review subjects and predicates. My students really liked making the trains. Most understood subjects and predicates a whole lot better after doing the train activity."

⭐️ Sparkles Teaches said, "My students always refer to the subjects and predicates as "the trains" now, and it really helps them understand it and connect it."

⭐️ Ellise R. said, "I loved using this resource to teach subjects and predicates to my 2nd graders as a whole group. Then the printed resource was very engaging for students tocomplete on their own. They created their own sentence and labeled each piece with the subject or predicate train car. It was a cute display, too!"

Feel free to check out these related activities as well!

Subjects and Predicates PowerPoint

Complete Subjects and Predicates Concentration GAME

Task Cards

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