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This activity uses a short instructional video to teach first graders to identify the subject (who or what) and the predicate (what the subject does or is) in simple sentences. Use the video page as a whole-class intro. Then have students complete the Think About It prompt individually with any tool. Pages with drag-and-drop questions provide quick checks of student understanding. For the Show It creative task, allow students to draw or record a short sentence acting out a subject and predicate. Minimal prep: printed sentence strips (optional) and crayons or whiteboards for students who prefer drawing. High-quality responses for the Think About It page: a correct answer names a clear subject or predicate from the video and a reasonable question about something they did not understand (e.g., “I learned that the predicate starts with the verb. I wonder if predicates can be only one word?”). For Show It, a strong response shows a student creating a complete sentence and demonstrating both parts (for example, a drawing of a dog (subject) and the caption “dog runs” or a short video of the child saying “The cat sleeps.”). Teachers may mark these open-ended items correct when the response clearly identifies both subject and predicate or shows a correct complete sentence with both parts.