Language and Grammar: Summarize

Pair Share With a partner, summarize how working dogs help people and how people help the dogs. Remember to tell the main idea and just the most important details. Use nouns as subjects and objects in your summary.

Dogs help people with disabilities do things that they can’t do for themselves. People give dogs a home, food, respect, and love.

Writing and Grammar: Write About People, Places, and Things

Study the Models When you write about people, places, and things, help your reader understand what you have to say by using words correctly and precisely. Use complete sentences.

Not Ok

Service dogs use their noses in helpful ways. The dogs can follow the scent of a missing person. Also help them locate illegal or dangerous items. In return, the police reward they. With some serious playtime and a lot of love.

The reader thinks:
“Who helps whom locate illegal or dangerous items?”

Ok

Service dogs use their noses in helpful ways. The dogs can follow the scent of a missing person. They also help the police locate illegal or dangerous items. In return, the police reward the dogs with some serious playtime and a lot of love.

Now the writer completes each idea and uses words precisely.

Add Sentences Think of two sentences to add to the OK model above. Be sure to write in complete sentences using correct pronouns.

Illustration of the pen icon WRITE ON YOUR OWN Write about a time when you helped someone. Use sentences that express complete ideas.

Remember

  • • A noun or pronoun used as a subject tells whom or what the sentence is about.

  • • A noun or pronoun used as an object tells who or what receives the action of the sentence.

Subject PronounsIyouhesheitweyouthey
Object Pronounsmeyouhimheritusyouthem