Subject: English Language Arts

Lesson Topic: Subject and Predicate

Grade Level: 4th
Instructional Setting
The lesson will be delivered in a 4th grade classroom. There are two classes with 22 students
each. Seats are arranged in groups of 5-6 students.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
(20) Oral and Written Conventions/Conventions. Students understand the function of and use the
conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students continue to apply earlier
standards with greater complexity. Students are expected to: (B) use the complete subject and the
complete predicate in a sentence (Texas Education Agency, 2015).

Learning Goal
The student will be able to identify the subjects and predicates in sentences.
Lesson Objectives
Students, working independently, will correctly identify the subjects and predicates of sentences.
In order to be successful students must correctly identify the subjects and predicates in 6/8
sentences.
Instructional Material & Resources
Teacher Materials

Student Materials

Promethean Board (to watch video)

Subject and Predicate worksheet

Video: School House Rock Subjects and

Predicates (School House Rock, 2009)
Subject/Predicate Anchor and Interactive Game
Power Point.

(Macmillian McGraw-Hill)
*Sentences in game reference material from
the School House Rock video (School House
Rock, 2009).

Prerequisite Skills Needed

Students must be able to identify nouns and verbs.

Presentation of Information
Introduction
Students will watch the Schoolhouse Rock video Subjects and Predicate. After watching the
video, the teacher will display the Subject/Predicate Anchor Chart on the Promethean Board

from the Power Point presentation. The teacher will go over the example sentences on the anchor
chart with students. The teacher will have students identify the noun and verb in each sentence
and then circle the subject and underline the predicate in each sentence.
Guided Practice
After going over the example sentences on the anchor chart, the class will play the Lets Make a
Sentence matching game. The class will be divided into four teams. A card matching game will
be played using the Promethean Board. Students will be divided into four teams. One at a time, a
student from each team will approach the Promethean Board and select a card on the screen. A
student from the same team will have to identify it as a subject or predicate. If the student
correctly identifies whether the card selected is a subject or predicate, then another card will be
selected by that team member. If the turned over cards make a sentence (one is a subject, the
other a predicate) that team will earn a point. If the turned over card is not correctly identified as
a subject or predicate or if the second card turned over is the same as the first (subjectsubject/predicate-predicate) the card will be turned back over and another team will take a turn.
The game will continue this way until all cards have been used and matches are made or 10
minutes has lapsed.
Independent Practice
Students will work independently by completing the Subject/Predicate printout. Students will be
instructed to circle the predicates and underline the predicates in each sentence.
Assessment

Students will be formatively assessed during the Lets Make a Sentence game and during
independent practice. Corrective feedback will be given, as needed, during game play. The
Subject/Predicate worksheet will serve as a summative assessment to the lesson. Students must
correctly identify the subject and predicate in 6/8 sentences in order to be successful.
Culmination
We will go over and discuss the correct answers for the Subject/Predicate activity that was
completed during independent practice.
Pedagogical Strategies

Active learning.

Differentiated Instruction

The use of an anchor chart, at the work area, will allow students to have material that can

be referenced during the lesson.

The incorporation of technology, use of video and game play are engaging to students

with varying skills, abilities, and learning differences.

There will be an extension activity that will challenge students that are more proficient in
this skill area. Students will combine sentences, in writing, into a single sentence with a

compound subject or compound predicate.

The class will engage in academic discourse during the game and while correcting work
after independent practice.

References
Macmillian McGraw-Hill. (n.d.). Treasures Grammar Book. New York: Macmillan McGrawHill.

School House Rock. (2009, April 11). Writing Class: Schoolhouse Rock Subjects and Predicates.
Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdUXxdmhIsw
Texas Education Agency. (2015, July). Grade 4: Year at a Glance. Retrieved from Mansfield
Independent School District:
http://www.mansfieldisd.org/uploaded/main/departments/CIA/ELA/ELA_4_YearatGlanc
e.pdf