Who plus what happened
Write a subject on a sentence strip ("My little brother") and ask, "What did he do?" Kids shout predicates and you write a few. Model checking each one: does it have a who and a what happened? Then kids build their own.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
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