Demarcating sentences: bison
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Rewrite the first sentence using the correct punctuation at the end. What other corrections need to be made?
Challenge 2
Rewrite the second sentence using the correct punctuation. What type of sentence is it? Can you improve it by adding an adjective to describe the headbutting contest?
Challenge 3
Using some of the vocabulary from the Word Wall, write your own sentence about a bison. Think about the sentence type you are writing. Will you write a statement, command, exclamation or question? Don’t forget to demarcate (begin and end) your sentence in the correct way.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) why do male bison fight for the attention of female bison
2) Their skulls must be so thick to survive that headbutting contest
Word Wall
bison
Yellowstone National Park
upward curving horns
scraggly beard
muscular body
distinctive hump
hoofed herbivore
clashed
head-butted
dust cloud