Teaching students how to diagram is crucial as it can help them analyze sentences in a straightforward manner, teaching them how the sentences are put together.
First step:
Start by teaching the basics.
State the importance of identifying the parts of speech. Such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections.
Second Step:
Teach students that the first step when diagramming a sentence is to create a base line. This line of the diagram will explain what the sentence is about and it is the fundamental piece of the sentence.
Explain the structure of a simple sentence in which we have the subject, verb and direct object together, and underline them. Explain that we separate the subject from the verb with a vertical line that crosses the underline and we separate the direct object from the verb with a vertical line that does not cross the underline.
Then teach students the basic rules as to diagramming.
You could also create a fun video in which you include all the basic rules when it comes to diagramming sentences. This way you can really catch the attention of your students.
Third Step:
Create fun and dynamic games, such as an activity using note cards in which students have to create sentences by using a note card that either has a verb, noun, subject and other parts of speech.
Also encourage students to help one another, allow them to work in groups and try to diagram different types of sentences. You can also assign groups to learn about each part of speech and teach it to the rest of the class to help reinforce the lessons. This way, they learn one part of speech really well themselves and help the other kids learn it, too.
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