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Subject + Predicate New Year Color by Code Worksheets

Six New Year colour-by-code worksheets ask students to decide whether an underlined phrase is the subject or the predicate — and in the last two, which single word is the simple subject or simple predicate — with each decision setting the colour for a numbered picture.
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Grades 3–5, Elementary
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Updated Oct 19, 2022

Subject
Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, New Year's Day
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color by code, subject
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What's inside this resource

The Subject + Predicate New Year Color by Code is a great way to practice comprehension during the winter season.

There are 6 coloring pages.

Students will answer 10 questions for each coloring sheet.

The answer choices will tell students what color they will use to color their picture.

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Answer keys included.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Decide whether an underlined phrase in a sentence is the complete subject or the complete predicate

  • Locate the simple subject or the simple predicate as a single word, choosing between two candidates

  • Hold the distinction across sentences that open with an adverb or a prepositional phrase, as in "Previously, Cheyenne used the confetti to decorate" and "During the party, confetti covered the tables and floors"

  • Apply the same analysis to compound subjects such as "Jason and Damarius" and "Fireworks, sparklers, and streamers"

  • Convert a grammatical decision into a colour and apply it accurately to the matching numbered region

Teaching tips

  • The four complete subject-and-predicate worksheets come first and the two simple subject-and-predicate ones last, so working through A to F follows the intended order of difficulty

  • Each picture page carries its own Colors You'll Need list, and the lists differ between worksheets — check the one on the page before handing out pencils rather than assuming a standard set

  • Some items use light blue against dark blue and light green against dark green in the same worksheet, which needs a pencil set that genuinely distinguishes the two

  • Sentences that begin with an adverb or a phrase — "Previously, Cheyenne...", "During the party, ..." — are the ones students most often mis-split; they are worth working together before the sheet goes out

  • The KEY pages reproduce both the sentence page and the coloured picture, so a finished sheet can be checked either by the choices made or by the finished image

Skills covered

  • Identifying the complete subject and complete predicate — four worksheets underline a phrase in each of ten sentences and ask which of the two it is.

  • Identifying the simple subject and simple predicate — the last two worksheets narrow the task to a single word, offering pairs such as "Deserves" against "happiness" and "Room's" against "Decorations".

  • Handling sentences that do not begin with the subject — items such as "Previously, Cheyenne used the confetti to decorate" and "During the party, confetti covered the tables and floors" put an opener in front of the subject.

  • Working with compound and modified subjects — "Jason and Damarius", "Marissa and Koby", "The dog with the big, floppy ears" and "Fireworks, sparklers, and streamers" all appear as subjects.

  • Self-checking through a colour code — each choice names a colour, so a wrong grammatical decision produces a visibly wrong region on the picture page.

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How do the six worksheets differ from one another?

In what the student has to find. Worksheets A to D underline a phrase and ask whether it is the subject or the predicate of the sentence. E and F change the task to the simple subject or simple predicate, naming which one is wanted and offering two quoted single words to choose between.

Do all six picture pages need the same colours?

No — each carries its own Colors You'll Need list. One worksheet asks for light blue, green, yellow, purple, brown, dark blue, pink, orange, red and black; another for light and dark blue, light and dark green, yellow, orange, purple, pink and red.

What ties the sentences together?

A New Year setting runs through all six worksheets — confetti on the tables and floors, spectators in Times Square, the ball's 60-second fall at midnight, black eyed peas and cornbread, and a blizzard that keeps a town out of school for three days.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Subject and predicate

  • Simple subject

  • Simple predicate

  • Sentence structure

  • Color by code

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