Under Construction: Building Sentences with a Bubble Map

Start Your Bubble Map1. Write your topic in the middle of a piece of paper.

Things I like to do

2. Draw a circle or box around it.

This will be the topic of your sentence.

Add Ideas to Your Bubble Map3. Draw a line from your box or circle.4. Write one idea about your topic at the end of each line.5. Draw a box or circle around each idea.

Ride my bike

Things I like to do

This will be the idea for your sentence.

Add Details to Your Bubble Map6. Use question words question words to help you think about things you can say about each idea.

o My mom and dad

o My brother and sister

o My friends

WHOWHO do I like to ride my bike with?WHENWHEN do I like to ride my bike?

o After school

o On Saturdays

o Before school

WHEREWHERE do I like to ride my bike?

o In my back yard

o On the sidewalk

o In the park

Add Details to Your Bubble Map

Ride my bike

Things I like to do

7. Draw a line from each idea box.8. Write one answer for each of your questions at the end of each line. 9. Draw a box or circle around each detail.

With my mom

After school

On the sidewalk

These will be details that you can add to your sentence.

Topic

Idea

WHO do I like to ride my bike with?

WHEN do I like to ride my bike?

WHERE do I like to ride my bike?

Build a Sentence with a Bubble Map

Study the structure of the sentence.−What is the idea?−What are the details?

I like to ride my bike on the sidewalk .IDEA DETAIL

Putting a Sentence Together

I like to .IDEA

DETAIL

DETAIL

I like to .IDEA

Can you think of more ways to add more details to a sentence?

Building a Sentence1. Make the bubble map into a puzzle.

Ride my bike

IDEAS DETAILS

With my momAfter school

On the sidewalk

2. Use the pieces to fill-in different sentence structures.

How many different sentences can you build?

Building a SentenceUse the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.

IDEAS DETAILSRide my bike

I like to .IDEA

DETAIL

With my mom

After school

On the sidewalk

ride my bike after school

Building a SentenceUse the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.

IDEAS DETAILSRide my bike

With my mom

After school

On the sidewalk

DETAIL

I like to .

IDEADETAIL

After school ride my bike with my mom

Building a SentenceUse the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.

IDEAS DETAILSRide my bike

With my mom

After school

On the sidewalk

DETAIL

I like to .

IDEADETAIL

on the sidewalkride my bike with my mom

Building a SentenceUse the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.

IDEAS DETAILSRide my bike

With my mom

After school

On the sidewalk

I like to .

IDEA

ride my bike

DETAIL

After school

DETAIL

with my mom

DETAIL

on the sidewalk