Writing Good Sentences Worksheets Winter Sentence Builders

Writing Good Sentences Winter Sentence Builders

This set of winter sentence building activities will sharpen your students’ writing skills all winter long! They will learn to expand their sentences to include more details – who, what, when, and where.

These activities are perfect first to second graders.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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 sentences they build

• Worksheet 10 – Students build two different sentences using provided sentence parts and illustrate their new sentences.

All of the above worksheets are included in both present and past-tense versions.

• Worksheets 11-12 – Students read and sort past and present tense verbs

• Worksheet 13 – Students read and sort past and present tense sentences