Kindergarden - The Five Senses

102 The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 4B | I Use My Tongue to Taste

 Syntactic Awareness Activity

Expanding Sentences

Directions: I will show you a picture. Then I will ask one question at a time

about the picture. Each time a question is answered, we will add it to our

sentence to make our sentence expand.

Note: There may be variations in the sentences created by your class.

Allow for these variations and adjust students’ sentences to that they

are grammatical. Repeat each sentence for the students. If necessary,

ask students to repeat your sentence.

 Show image 5A-6: Boy eating fried chicken

1. W h o? (A boy)
   A boy.


2. What is his name? (Edward)
   A boy named Edward.


3. What is he doing? (opening his mouth)
   A boy named Edward is opening his mouth.
   Edward is opening his mouth.
   Edward opens his mouth.


4. Why is he opening his mouth? (to eat the fried chicken)
   Edward is opening his mouth to eat the fried chicken.
   Edward opens his mouth to eat the fried chicken.
   Extending the Activity

• You can continue this activity by asking additional questions like:
  Where is Edward? How does Edward feel about eating the fried
  chicken?
  Variations


• Students ask the questions.
  ➶ Above and Beyond: Students work with their partners to ask
  questions and expand their own sentence.