Subject and Predicate Worksheets

About this resource

"The dog" is not a sentence. "Ran fast" is not a sentence either. A sentence needs both: a subject (who or what it's about) and a predicate (what that subject does or is). This is a full subject-and-predicate kit for first and second grade — find it, split it, match it, sort it, and build it — with room to work on every writing page.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (30 pages)

• 13 student pages in 7 page types (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 60 different sentences, all invented, short and neutral; no practice item repeats across the student pages
• 12 short phrases (not full sentences) to sort into two bins, six a page, in a block that takes 3 straight cuts
• 1 rules page for the teacher (with a blank line for your program's own wording), 3 answer keys generated from the same data as the pages
• 1 tracker (12 rows), 1 class progress grid, 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (17 starters)
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, and a back page

THE SEVEN PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. Subject and Predicate Helper (1 dot) — what a subject and a predicate are, in kid words, with a split example.

2. Find the Subject (1 dot, 2 pages) — read the sentence, underline the complete subject.

3. Find the Predicate (1 dot, 2 pages) — read the sentence, underline the complete predicate.

4. Split the Sentence (2 dots, 2 pages) — read the sentence, draw ONE line between the subject and the predicate.

5. Match It (2 dots, 2 pages) — six lettered items on the left, six shuffled items on the right; write the matching letter in the box. One page gives the subject and asks for the predicate, the other gives the predicate and asks for the subject.

6. Sort the Halves (2 dots, 2 pages) — cut six short phrases from a 3 by 2 block (three straight cuts) and glue each under Subject or Predicate.

7. Build a Sentence (3 dots, 2 pages) — a subject half and a predicate half are given; write them as one whole sentence with a capital letter and an end mark.

Items come in two sets of six (A, B), so a child never meets the same item twice on one page type.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, and writing boxes on primary lines at least 0.6 inch tall. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. Cutting is limited to Sort the Halves: six pieces a page, touching edge to edge, each wider than 2 inches and taller than 1.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note, the home page and the rules-page note box are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The letters a student writes in the boxes are pencil work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

First and second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs the two-part sentence idea. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Subject-and-predicate practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, not a writing assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. Compound subjects and predicates, simple vs. complete subject as a separate lesson, dependent clauses, and sentence fragments taught as their own category are not practiced — every sentence has exactly one subject and one predicate.