SUPER SENTENCE - TEACHING PARTS OF SPEECH FROM THE BEGINNING

THIS IS A TEACHING TOOL I USED IN GRADES 1-3, BUT IT COULD EASILY BE USED IN GRADES 4-5. IT CEMENTS THE CONCEPT OF "PARTS OF SPEECH" USING THE 5 "W" IDEA.
FIRST GRADE: Teaching the idea of a "Super Sentence". Students give a sentence, teacher writes on the board. Example: The dog ran down the street. Good sentence. What tells us WHO we are talking about - the dog. WHAT did the dog do - ran. WHERE did the dog run - down the street.
Oops! We are missing WHEN, WHY, HOW...
Let's add WHEN - The dog ran down the street last night.
Now add WHY - The dog ran down the street last night to get its bone.
Can we add HOW - The dog quickly ran down the street last night to get its bone.
Later on teach the students how to change the sentence parts so the flow is better.- Last night, the dog quickly ran down the street to get its bone. GREAT JOB FIRST GRADERS!
SECOND GRADE: Of course, teach the first grade concept of the chart before you continue with second grade concepts. As you teach the different parts of speech, add the name of the part of speech to the chart. So this is an ongoing teaching chart. I use vis-a-vis, so I can erase my teaching marks and reuse from the beginning the following year. Probably, second graders will concentrate on nouns, adjectives, and verbs (action). If you teach more, then by all means, add to the chart. Make sure the students understand that WHAT is "did what" - action. A great project for second grade (after you review the first grade skills) is SUPER SKELETAL SENTENCES. This is completed in October and is an incredible hallway decorator. Children decorate a skeletal face, and then write their super sentence on bones that hang from the head. If you put one word on each bone it is long, but if you teach phrases, then you could shorten it.
THIRD GRADE: Teach the concepts from the beginning and then use the chart as you study adverbs. Adverbs will answer the WHEN, WHERE, HOW. Very versatile teaching chart.