Complete Sentences
A sentence needs a who and a what they do, a capital letter to start, and an end mark to stop.
Preview how it deepens, Grades 1 through 8.
Build one yourself.
Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.
1 · Nelson's office · the subject
2 · Vinny's stage · the predicate
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play Sentence Surgeon →Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play Garbage Sentences →Two complete thoughts need a real boundary.
Two complete thoughts are jammed together with no boundary. Each half could stand alone, so they need a period, a semicolon, or a joining word between them.
Give each complete thought its own space, and the sentence is clear.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Complete Sentences runs the length of the Factory, Grades 1 through 8. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.