They were struggling with writing. Their classroom teachers noticed that they were not progressing with the whole group instruction. .
These students were unable to write a complete sentence. So, I broke a sentence down to it's parts and had them learn to create the concept of a complete sentence using pictures.
They had trouble seeing the difference in the pictures. The girls were not seeing that some pictures were things, people or animals (subject) and the other pictures were showing an action, what an object was doing or what it was like (predicate). We spent a significant amount of time talking about the pictures and learning how to see the pictures.
I wanted them to see that the subject part of a sentence is a noun or pronoun. Then we tackled the predicate part of the sentence, with the understanding that it is the action part of the sentence or tells what the subject is like.
We did a lot of sorting to help them see the difference between a subject and a predicate. They did this with labeled pictures, non-labeled pictures and word cards. 
Then, I had them cut and paste the sentence puzzles to create a complete sentence.
Finally, they were highlighting the parts of the sentence. Now, they could see that a sentence has 2 parts. Now, the girls had the idea of what made a sentence a complete sentence and they were writing them!
It was time to send them back into their classroom for the whole group lessons.
The joys of teaching! I have put these activities together in a packet, Sentences: Subject and Predicate. Move on forward educating our kids!
Froggy About Learning
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