Mud Thinks about Doing and Being

Teacher edition · Grade 4 · Lesson 18 · Literature · Sentence Island

Writing Book 4 · sheet 57

Doing, or being — a verb does one or the other.

2. Your turn

In your notebook: apply Mud Thinks about Doing and Being to three sentences of your own, double-spaced.

Below is what a full, correct answer looks like. Children's wording will differ and should — mark the thing this lesson taught, not everything at once.

Read out one sentence that uses Mud Thinks about Doing and Being.model — accept any answer that does the same job

3. Before you finish

Read out one sentence that uses Mud Thinks about Doing and Being.

Watch forThis is the single hardest idea in Level 1 grammar. Expect it to need saying again.