📚 Wheeler's Speller • Lesson 55 (Sentence Building & Syntax)
BOOK 1 • WHEELER'S SPELLER PRIMARY SYNTAX CURRICULUM • LESSON 55 STUDENT PRACTICE WORKSHEET
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LESSON 55 • SENTENCE BUILDING & SYNTAX MECHANICS Original Page 34 • Capital Letters & Periods
Textbook Rule: Arrange the scrambled words to form two sensible sentences. Remember to begin each sentence with a capital letter and end it with a period (.).
1 Arrange these words into a complete sentence:
rain the calls when the comes wind
2 Arrange these words into a complete sentence:
birds the singing are song a joyous
3 Punctuation Detective: Rewrite each sentence with a capital letter and a period:
a. the gentle rain fell softly upon the green wheat
b. two merry birds sang from high branches in the sky
c. a brisk cold wind swept across the open fields
4 Write your own complete sentence using two words from the lesson (wind, rain, birds, song):
📖 RULES TO REMEMBER • LESSON 55
Rule 1 • Capital Letters
Every sentence MUST start with a Capital letter (e.g., The, When, A).
Rule 2 • Sensible Word Order
Words must form a complete thought with a naming part (subject) and an action part (predicate).
Rule 3 • End Punctuation
Every telling sentence ends with a period (.). Never forget your stop sign!