My students always struggle with creating detailed descriptive sentences that are also grammatically correct. I created this product to help them understand how to use all eight parts of speech in their sentences and learn how to expand their sentences in a fun and interactive way. Product Includes: This product includes over 200 word cards that give examples of the eight different parts of speech. You can print on black and white or you can print the color coded cards on cardstock. There are also four different templates you can use for the student recording sheet. Suggested Uses: Works great as a workstation activity. Can be used as an early finisher activity. This activity is a great way to introduce all eight parts of speech in a hands on way. Print on cardstock and laminate for continued use year after year. What are buyers saying about this product? "This is a great product. My 3rd graders love this as a center. It's a great way to make a subject like English more exciting for them." "My students who struggle with expanding sentences have enjoyed this so much!! They think that it is so much fun." ________________________________________________________________ Copyright © The Stellar Teacher Co. LLC www.stellarteacher.com Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
Practise creating interesting sentences using this simple format to breakdown the key components – who, doing what, where, when, why. Includes a completed example and then a printable worksheet for your students to have a go at stretching their own sentence.
How do you encourage your students to write longer, more interesting sentences? You know what will happen if you simply them to write longer sentences... they'll just add more words to the end, resulting in long, rambling run-ons! After struggling with this problem myself, I developed a three-step process to help my students turn boring sentences into super sentences. I began by teaching them the difference between fragments, run-ons, and complete sentences. Then we practiced revising and expanding basic sentences to make them more interesting. After I modeled the activity and they practiced it in a whole group setting, they played a game called Sentence Go Round in their cooperative learning teams. The difference in their writing was dramatic! Before long, they were adding more detail to their sentences without creating run-ons in the process.
I was so excited to begin begin apple week... There is something about apples that scream "FALL!". I
Teaching ESL; Sentence Structure Activities to Support Core Instruction Boost writing skills with a sentence strip activity.
Boost your child's writing skills with these simple sentence starters for beginning writers!
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As this the end of the school year is getting closer and closer my kids are still having trouble with writing complete sentences. My group last year really enjoyed writing...this group not so much. They think it's boring and I'm lucky to get a sentence or two out of them. Today I tried to take it back to the basics of expanding sentences and encouraged them to use adjectives and adverbs. I gave them a piece of paper and had them fold back and forth until they had 4 rectangles on their page. I gave them a short sentence and they wrote it on the outside of their foldable. When we were expanding our sentences I only gave them clues such as lets add an adjective to describe the dog. Lets write an adverb to show how the dog ran, etc.... This was their end result. I will definitely take it! We did one of these every day for a week and they can use them as examples when working on writing independently. How do you encourage your kids writing? Looking for other writing ideas? Check out my Reading and Writing Pinterest board!
This Expanding Sentences worksheet provides a series of simple sentences that students are tasked with enhancing by adding an adjective. It starts with an example, illustrating how an adjective can add detail to a noun within a sentence. Students must apply this concept by incorporating appropriate adjectives into seven provided base sentences. The inclusion of...
This silly sentences printable activity is perfect for teaching kids to expand sentences. It would also be a fun Wacky Wednesday activity for Dr. Seuss week.
Flex those writing skills with these clever prompts. Practice stretching sentences by adding details of who, what, when and where!
