Writing Good Sentences Worksheets Summer Sentence Builders

Do your students need more practice writing great sentences? This set of fun summer sentence writing activities will do the trick!

This writing resource includes summer themed centers and worksheets appropriate for students in first and second grade. The activities help students learn to expand their sentences to include more details.

These activities are perfect for review at the end of first grade, summer practice before second grade, or special ed ESY.

Tasks include:

identifying complete sentences (sentence or not a sentence?)
identifying parts of a sentence (who, what, when, and where)
building better sentences
writing and illustrating sentences
identifying present and past tense verbs

Does this resource include differentiation?

Yes! These activities include cut and glue tasks for students who need a more hands-on learning approach. There are also pages that require writing instead.

For students who have trouble writing complete ideas, worksheets to practice identifying sentences versus phrases are included.

All of the worksheets and activities are provided in two versions:

with present tense verbs
with past tense verbs

This allows you to teach verb tense skills at the same time or focus on just one. There are several worksheets that focus specifically on past vs. present tense words and sentences.

What is included in this resource?

Summer Writing Center

Sentence building picture cards for who, what, when, and where
Silly sentence building worksheet to use with the cards

The worksheet is provided in two versions. Students choose either 3 or 4 cards to build their sentences.

Sentence Worksheets

Worksheet 1: Sort groups of words according to whether they are complete sentences or not. Add capitalization and punctuation to the sentences.
Worksheets 2-3: Students cut sentences into their parts to show who, what, when, and where.
Worksheets 4-7: Students read a sentence, illustrate it, and identify the who, what, when, and where
Worksheet 8-9: Students cut out and rearrange words to build a sentence using who, what, when, and where organizer. They also write and illustrate the sentence they build
Worksheet 10 – Students build two different sentences using provided sentence parts and illustrate their new sentences.