A capital letter right in the beginning shows the reader that a new thought is coming. More strict rules can then be introduced, such as the things that all sentences must have. While there are always exceptions to the rules, kindergarteners should be praised for their efforts and encouraged to include drawings along with their initial attempts at building sentence structure.

Their brain, for the most part, will have adapted to the language that it’s heard since birth and plot those language pathways through the brain, telling them which words to allow and which words don’t go together. Parts of speech come later as the student begins to craft more and more sentences based on the way that they talk. They just have to know how to talk and read. When teaching kindergarteners to write sentences, they don’t have to know the names of the parts of speech or more advanced concepts. Once sight words are mastered and they begin to sound out words and recognize those sight words, kindergarteners are able to read sentences on their own, opening up a whole world of communication and amazing books in the palms of their hands. As they begin to grasp the concept of phonics and the way word sounds are put together, their minds start to lay the pathways for reading skills. Kindergarteners are ripe for learning experiences, their minds eager to make sense of the world around them.

Sentence diagramming app