Subject & Predicate
Every sentence has two parts: who or what it is about, and what they do.
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 →Half a sentence is a fragment.
All subject, no predicate. We never find out what the dog does, so it is not a complete thought yet. This is the mistake the Factory was built to catch.
Add a predicate and the thought finishes. Now it can leave the line.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Subject & Predicate runs the length of the Factory, Grades 1 through 8. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.