1. DGP
Daily Checks

2. First Grade: Week One
josh likes red apples

3. First Grade: Week One josh likes red apples
MONDAY: josh likes red apples
TUESDAY: josh likes red apples
Wednesday: Declarative = telling sentence
Thursday: Josh likes red apples.

4. Josh likes red apples. Things to Know:
A proper noun is always capitalized.
Josh
Declarative = telling
Declarative sentences end in periods.
Josh likes red apples.

5. Second Grade: Week One
the boy saw a big spider

6. Second Grade: Week One the boy saw a big spider
MONDAY: the boy saw a big spider
TUESDAY: the boy saw a big spider
A (action verb)
WEDNESDAY: Declarative = telling sentence
THURSDAY: The boy saw a big spider.

7. Third Grade: Week One
some students at oak street school learned about sea animals
MONDAY:
some students at oak street school learned about sea animals
TUESDAY: A
some students at oak street school
AV learned about sea animals

8. Fourth Grade: Week One

9. Fourth Grade: Week One
Dust

10. Fourth Grade: Week One
Dust
covers

11. Fourth Grade: Week One
Dust
covers
wings

12. Fourth Grade: Week One
Dust
covers
wings
butterfly’s

13. Fourth Grade: Week One
Dust
covers
wings
butterfly’s a

14. Invitation to Discover
A valuable Friday/summarizing activity and a strong way to tie the DGP mini-lesson into other areas.
A student exploring the week’s DGP sentence might notice things such as:
(1.) The adjectives in this sentence are directly before the nouns they describe. Is this the same in all sentences?
(2.) The complete subject is the first “half” of the sentence and the complete predicate is the last part.
(3.) A proper noun is always capitalized even if it isn’t the first word of the sentence.
(4.) All of these sentences have at least one noun/pronoun and one verb. Do all sentences have to have that?
Once you have a few sentences in the collection, have students look back over past sentences and see if what they have noted is true in the other sentences as well. Does it happen enough to think of it as a “rule”? If so, come up with a special way to have students note this in their DGP notebook.

15. Mentoring
Take every advantage to use your DGP sentence as a mentor sentence. Talk with your students about how the words work together, why the sentence is clear, and any noticeable grammatical patterns. Then, look for mentor sentences in other print that you use throughout the day (stories, nonfiction text, etc.) and have students practice skills on the new sentences as well.