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Marmot Hill Sentence Builders

Grade 2 sentence practice on a mountain hill: find complete sentences, join two into a compound sentence, then move parts and add details.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.2.1.f

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 2
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students tell complete sentences from groups of words that are not sentences.
  • Students join two simple sentences into a compound sentence with a comma and and, but, or, or so.
  • Students rearrange simple sentences and expand them with details that tell when and where.

How to use

Review that a compound sentence joins two complete sentences with a comma and a joining word. Let students work alone, then share the sentences they wrote at the end.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.2.1.f

Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences.

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Marmot Hill Sentence Builders

Build, join, move, and grow sentences about the marmots Mila watches.

Is it a complete sentence?

Mila and her uncle are watching marmots on a rocky mountain hill. A complete sentence tells who or what, and it tells what that person or thing does.

1.
Sort each group of words.
Under the big gray rock.A marmot sat on a warm rock.Munching on yellow flowers.The fat marmot near the trail.Two young marmots wrestled.Mila smiled.
Complete sentenceNot a complete sentence
2.
Match each beginning to the ending that makes a complete sentence that makes sense.
  1. A loud whistle
  2. The young marmots
  3. Mila's uncle
  4. The sleepy marmot
  1. A. handed Mila the binoculars.
  2. B. yawned on its sunny rock.
  3. C. rang out across the hill.
  4. D. chased each other in the grass.
3.
Mila wrote this note in her notebook. It is not a complete sentence:
Ate the purple flowers.
Which choice makes it a complete sentence?
  • A. Ate all of the purple flowers on the hill.
  • B. The pretty purple flowers on the big hill.
  • C. The hungry marmot ate the purple flowers.
  • D. Ate the purple flowers and the green grass.

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