Diagramming Sentences 1

Diagramming Sentences
Fifth Grade Reading, Writing
Sentences can be surprisingly complex. Enhance your students' reading and writing skills with this
comprehensive lesson on diagramming sentences and identifying parts of speech.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the following parts of speech within a sentence: noun, verb, adjective, adverb,
preposition, and conjunction.
Materials and preparation Key terms
Sentence Diagramming Practice worksheets noun

Diagramming Sentences: Poetry worksheet adjective
Diagramming Sentences: Secret Garden verb
worksheet adverb
Document camera preposition
conjunction
Attachments
Sentence Diagramming Practice (PDF)

Diagramming Sentences: Poetry (PDF)
Diagramming Sentences: Secret Garden (PDF)
Introduction (10 minutes)
List some different parts of speech (noun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, and conjunction) on the
board. Write an example next to each one.
Briefly review the definition of each part of speech. A noun refers to a person, animal, place, thing, or
idea. An adjective describes the state of a noun. A verb refers to an action. An adverb describes how a
verb is performed. A preposition refers to location, either in space or time. A conjunction connects
words and phrases.
Review the forms of the verb "be" (am, is, are, was, and were), then write them down on the board as
well.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (10 minutes)
Hand out copies of the Sentence Diagramming Practice worksheet to your students.
Display your worksheet using a document camera, then complete problem number 1. Remember to
follow the worksheet instructions and narrate as you work. Have students follow along on their own
copies.
As a class, complete problem number 2.
Guided Practice (15 minutes)
Have students work on the rest of the worksheet.

Sit with struggling students and work with them.
Have an answer sheet prepared for students to check their work once they finish.
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Independent working time (20 minutes)
Hand out the copies of the Diagramming Sentences: Poetry worksheet.

Have students complete the worksheets without your assistance. Students who complete the worksheet
before time is up can work on the
Differentiation
Enrichment: * Students who finish their Diagramming Sentences: Poetry worksheets early can work on
the Diagramming Sentences: Secret Garden worksheet.
Support: Provide one on one assistance to struggling students as they complete their worksheets.
Assessment (10 minutes)
Review the answers to the Diagramming Sentences: Poetry worksheet.

Collect all worksheets at the end of the exercise, and review them later to assess student comprehension.
Review and closing (5 minutes)
Allow students to ask questions and give comments about the lesson.

�� Practice Page 1
Diagram the following senetences. Remember that the subject and verb go on a line, with modifiers
on a diagonal line underneath the word they modify. Place a direct object on the line with the subject
and verb and an indirect object under the verb.
Example: Jane sang her baby a sweet lullaby in the evening.

Jane sang lullaby
sw
evening
a
in
baby
ee
t
th
he
e
r
Steve and Carl took the books to the library.
Mrs. Harris gave me a red apple.
The red and white boat sailed up the muddy river towards the port.
For my birthday, I received a bicycle and a game.
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Diagramming Sentences: Poetry
From A Child’s Garden of Verses, 1916
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote poems about things children see and do every day. Have
you ever wondered why you have to go to bed when it’s still light out in the middle of
summer? Even though this poem was written almost 100 years ago, children in 1916
wondered the same thing!
DIRECTIONS
Circle the noun that is the subject of every clause.
Underline every verb that shows the action in each sentence.
Place a star next to every adjective.
Place parentheses ( ) around every preposition.
BED IN SUMMER
In winter I get up at night,

And dress by yellow candle light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet,
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Diagramming Sentences: The Secret Garden
In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox discovers more
than a garden. She learns to love and take care of something. In this passage, we feel
the wonder and suspense of her discovery.
DIRECTIONS
Circle the noun that is the subject of every sentence. There may be more than one!
Underline every verb that shows the action in each sentence. One sentence can have
more than one verb!
Place a star next to every adjective.
Place parentheses ( ) around every preposition.
Mary Lennox always said that what happened at that

moment was Magic.
One of the nice little gusts of wind rushed down the walk.
Suddenly the gust of wind swung aside some loose ivy
trails.
She jumped toward it and caught it in her hand.
She had seen something under it—a round knob which
had been covered by the leaves hanging over it.
It was the knob of a door.
She put her hands under the leaves and began to pull
and push them aside.
Mary's heart began to thump and her hands to shake a little in her delight and
excitement.
It was the lock of the door which had been closed ten years.
She put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key and found it fitted the keyhole.
She put the key in and turned it.
She took a long breath and looked behind her up the long walk to see if any one
was coming.
She held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which
opened slowly—slowly.
Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her, and stood with her back
against it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement, and
wonder, and delight.
She was standing inside the secret garden.


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Diagramming Sentences

Fifth Grade Reading, Writing

Materials and preparation Key terms

Sentence Diagramming Practice worksheets noun

Sentence Diagramming Practice (PDF)

Introduction (10 minutes)

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (10 minutes)

Guided Practice (15 minutes)

Have students work on the rest of the worksheet.

Get more lesson plans at https://www.education.com/lesson-plans/

Hand out the copies of the Diagramming Sentences: Poetry worksheet.

Assessment (10 minutes)

Review the answers to the Diagramming Sentences: Poetry worksheet.

Review and closing (5 minutes)

Get more lesson plans at https://www.education.com/lesson-plans/

Example: Jane sang her baby a sweet lullaby in the evening.

Mrs. Harris gave me a red apple.

For my birthday, I received a bicycle and a game.

In winter I get up at night,

Get more lesson plans at https://www.education.com/lesson-plans/

Mary Lennox always said that what happened at that

Get more lesson plans at https://www.education.com/lesson-plans/

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