5 Star Sentences

    The good news-the kiddos are writing everyday. The bad news (well what they believe is bad news) is that I am getting pretty strict with their writing. I won't just accept anything. I only like EVERY SENTENCE in their writing piece to be a five star sentence.
     What is a five star sentence? Well, that depends on what grade we are talking about. In Grade 2 a five star sentence has 5 important parts.
1. Capitalisation. All proper nouns and the first word in each sentence gets a capital.
2. Neatness. We use our best printing and we have finger spaces between each word.
3. Spelling. Word wall words are spelt correctly and all other words look correct.
4. Punctuation. There is a . ! or a ? at the end of every sentence and commas are used properly (we have not gotten into commas just yet!).
5. Word Choice. We use strong verbs and describing words. All words are written in the correct order and no words are left out.

In Grade 1 a five star sentence has 5 important parts.
1. Capital letters. The kiddos are learning that we put capital letters at the beginning of sentences and that names get a capital.
2. Punctuation. Sentences need to end with a . ! or ?
3. Good spacing. In Grade 1 I call it spaghetti and meatball spaces. Words need to have big meatball spaces between them. The letters in the words need little or spaghetti spaces.

4. Good spelling. Words on the word wall are not allowed to be spelt wrong because we can find them on the wall!

5. Makes sense. No words are missing in our sentences.

Below is the 5 Star Sentence poster for the Grade 1's. The One's are just beginning to use 5 star sentences while our Two's have had the GRUELLING task of writing five star sentences for almost a month.  Poor kids :)

Stay tuned-I'll post some Grade 1 and 2 five star sentences from our very own kiddos soon!

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer