Framing Your Thoughts

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Framing Your Thoughts

• 3rd Grade
• 2007-2008

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• ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• How can you understand the functions of words and
  use them in your writing?

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Diagramming Symbols

• Sentence Frame
• Subject
• Subject Describer
• Connector
• Interrupter
• Action Predicate Word
• Predicate Expander (3)
• Bound Predicate Word and Completer

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• BAREBONE SENTENCE
• Every sentence starts with a capital letter and
  it ends with a stop sign.
• Example Tom bikes.

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• Create your own BAREBONE SENTENCE!
• Share it with a partner!

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Think and Practice

• horses gallop
• a baby cries
• Bobby and Michael play in the park
• John Mary and Jim cheer

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• the paper pencils and crayons arrived
• Amy and Sally skate
• The whale jumps
• Mikayla and Ryan ride the Whip
• The lightning flashes and strikes
• The boys and girls skate slide and ski

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• The brown paper sack fell on the floor
• A tall sunburned youth walked along the beach
• Colorful wild flowers bloom on the mountain side
  each spring
• The graceful turtle glided through the blue sea
• The car with the racing stripe zoomed down First
  Avenue
• Molly my best friend sings in the choir
• Grandpa caught the big fish

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• Grandma shouted to Ryan, Smile for me
• Taffy apples are sticky
• The flag was lowered

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• Practice in Collaborative Pairs

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• Hate destroys
• Freedom continues
• The nosey mouse peeked around the corner
• The boy darted like a deer across the field
• The breeze blew gently
• The children tumbled into each other like leaves
  before a storm