FREE MINI LESSON · GUIDED PRACTICE
Give your story a sentence
A sentence can tell who does something. Add a word that tells how to give it a little more detail. Read each sentence aloud as you build.
Nico reads the story. → Nico reads the story carefully.
1. Build in order.
Arrange each set of words into a sentence. Begin with the name and add a full stop.
1. reads / Nico / the story
2. Lola / to / listened / Mara
3. wise advice / gives / Lola
2. Add how.
Choose carefully, quietly, or happily. More than one answer can work.
4. Nico reads the story __________________________.
5. Mara listens __________________________.
3. Spot a noun and a verb.
6. In “Lola gives advice”, circle the person’s name and underline the action word.
4. Write your own.
7. Write about someone doing something. Add a word that tells how.
Answer key & teaching notes
- Nico reads the story.
- Mara listened to Lola.
- Lola gives wise advice.
- Any sensible option; for example, carefully.
- Any sensible option; for example, quietly.
- Circle Lola. Underline gives.
- Answers vary; for example, Ana sings happily.
“Nico carefully reads the story” is also acceptable when learners extend the first sentence. Keep the difference between a describing word for a noun and a word telling how an action happens clear.
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