I don’t know if any of you are having trouble teaching your students how to put sentences together without having to write the words out for them. I have been teaching SDC 1-5 for 6 years now and have just tried something new. I have made a list of verbs using picures. I have also given the students a list of nouns with pictures. Now they choose a noun and a verb and they have a simple sentence. All they have to do now is fill in the blanks using a noun and a verb of their choice. The________ __________.
I have found that most of my students won’t write because they can’t spell the words. They come up and ask you how to spell every word in their sentence. I now have all my students writing, even my first graders. Now they are putting together compound sentences using this format: The ________ likes to ______ and _________. My more advanced students can put together their own more complex sentences. Hope this makes sense and helps someone.