Agreeable Sentences Subject Verb Agreement Intermediate Writing CCS LA 3.L.1 Ensure subject-verb agreement. Understanding subject/verb agreement helps students read and write more fluently. Review the anchor charts with students and use Sentence Practice strips for whole group review of the concept before using this activity in stations. Add text of your own to reflect current literature or content being studied. What’s included: □ Task Card in WORD (click on slide to open in WORD for editing OR open the separate TASK CARD DOC on the website) □ Anchor Charts □ Student Activity Cards for small group work and Practice strips for whole group □ Answer Key for self-checking □ Materials Needed: Comic strips, game board, die, and tokens. □ Technology Connection: Copyright © 2013 Innovative Educational Programs. Reproduction rights granted to CHILD Teachers and permitted only for use as instructional material.

Singular Subject & Verb If you use a singular subject, use a singular verb. Example: Andy wants to go bowling. (Andy and wants agree because they are both singular.) Example: Cindy rides her bike to school each day. (Cindy and rides agree because they are both singular.)

Plural Subject & Verb If you use a plural subject, use a plural verb. Example: Boys sometimes sing like squawking chickens. (Boys and sing agree because they are both plural.) Example: My pets jump at the chance to go outside. (pets and jump agree because they are both plural.)

Whole Group Practice Sentences The boy very fast. My mom dinner every night. Do you pancakes? My dog over the fence. Bears a lot of food before winter. cook cooks cooking run ran running like likes liked jump jumped jumping eat ate eating

Choose the word that completes the sentence. Susan could not ______ her shoes anywhere. a.find b.finds c.found Choose the word that completes the sentence. The little puppy ______ into my lap. a.jump b.jumped c.jumping Jill’s cat ______ at me when I sat down. a.meow b.meowed c.will meow The baby ______ when he got hungry. a.cries b.cried c.crying I ______ the football with my brother later today. a.threw b.throwing c.will throw John went ______ last week. a.fish b.fished c.fishing The airplane ______ above the clouds. a.fly b.flying c.flew My shoes ______ apart after the long hike. a.fall b.falling c.fell A huge eagle ______ down from the nest to capture its prey. a.dove b.dive c.diving

Choose the word that completes the sentence. Maria will ______ a solo in the school play. a.singing b.sang c.sing Choose the word that completes the sentence. The airplane ______ smoothly on the runway. a.landing b.land c.landed Santa’s elves ______ hard before the holiday. a.working b.work c.works My mother ______ at least one pie each week for our family. a.bake b.bakes c.baking Clowns ______ balls high in the air at the circus. a.juggle b.juggles c.juggling A seagull ______ the shore before landing. a.circle b.circled c.circling Mr. Smith is ______ in the New York Marathon this year. a.run b.ran c.running Bears ______ fat in order to hibernate all winter. a.store b.stores c.storing The Internet ______ people around the world. a.connecting b.connected c.connects

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NumberAnswer 1 find 2 jumped 3 meowed 4 cried 5 flew 6 fishing 7 will throw 8 fell 9 dove 10 sing 11 landed 12 work NumberAnswer 13 bakes 14 running 15 circled 16 juggled 17 store 18 connects Answer Key for Agreeable Sentences Copyright © 2013 Innovative Educational Programs.