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Building Sentences with a Bubble Map

Start Your Bubble Map

1. Write your topic in the middle of a piece of paper. 2. Draw a circle or box around it.

Things I like to do
This will be the topic of your sentence.

Add Ideas to Your Bubble Map

3. 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

This will be the idea for your sentence.

Things I like to do

Add Details to Your Bubble Map

6. Use question words to help you think about things you can say about each idea.

WHEN do to ride my WHO do II like to ride WHERE do I like to ride bike? my my bike bike?with?

o My In After my school back yard mom and dad

o My On brother the Saturdays sidewalk o and sister

o My In Before the park school o friends

Add Details to Your Bubble Map

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.
After school With my mom These will be details that you can add to your sentence.

WHO do I like to ride my bike with?

WHEN do I like to ride my bike?

On the sidewalk
Ride my bike

WHERE do I like to ride my bike?

Idea
Things I like to do Topic

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

I like to
DETAIL IDEA

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

Building a Sentence
1. Make the bubble map into a puzzle. 2. Use the pieces to fill-in different sentence structures.

IDEAS
Ride my bike

DETAILS
On the sidewalk

With my mom After school

How many different sentences can you build?

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

I like to

ride my bike
IDEA

after school .
DETAIL

IDEAS
Ride my bike

DETAILS
After school

With my mom

On the sidewalk

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

After school I like to

DETAIL

ride my bike
IDEA

with my mom .
DETAIL

IDEAS
Ride my bike

DETAILS
After school

With my mom

On the sidewalk

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

I like to

ride my bike IDEA

with my mom

on the sidewalk .

DETAIL

DETAIL

IDEAS
Ride my bike

DETAILS
After school

With my mom

On the sidewalk

Building a Sentence
Use the pieces of your bubble map to fill-in different sentence structures.
ride my bike

After school

I like to

with my mom

on the sidewalk .

DETAIL

IDEA DETAIL DETAIL

IDEAS
Ride my bike

DETAILS
After school

With my mom

On the sidewalk