Subject and Predicate

We use the Language! Program for some of our reading/language arts pull out services for kids who are far enough below grade level that they can’t really access the curriculum if they are in the regular education classroom during their language arts time. The program is very structured and has 6 steps in every lesson: phonemic awareness, word recognition and spelling, vocabulary and morphology, grammar and usage, listening and reading comprehension, and speaking and writing.

We are working on identifying the subject and predicate in several of my language arts groups and to supplement the program I made a bulletin board to help remind students throughout the unit. 

As you can tell, one of my kids wanted to help me so they wrote some of the parts of my board and helped me make the snowflakes.

The definition of subject and predicate comes straight from the program so the language is consistent and it really seems to work for those kids. We had just gotten a snowstorm when I had gotten the idea to update the bulletin board so I incorporated snowflakes and a snowman hoping to draw their attention to it as well. It seems to work! I catch them looking at the board when we are practicing identifying subjects and predicates, and it is one of the center activities to make sentences by matching a subject to a predicate from the board so that's one less center I have to plan!