Improving Sentences Strong Writing Worksheets for Expanding Sentences NO PREP
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Fun imaginative writing practice! These printable Literacy Centers for writing complex sentences and expanding sentences were originally designed for 4th and 5th Grade. Encourages ambitious sentence structures and vocabulary in narrative writing: 40 complex sentence-formation activity cards and 40 sPrice $5.75Original Price $7.75Save $2.00
Imaginative writing practice activities and literacy centers for Fourth and Fifth Grade, including story starters narrative writing prompt cards with pictures, improving sentences worksheets and complex sentences game cards. Great for warm ups, bell ringers, main lesson tasks or early finisher challPrice $9.50Original Price $12.50Save $3.00
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Creative writing practice activities, ideal for stretching sentences! This independent work packet contains 40 sentence structure practice worksheets for upper Elementary and Middle School Literacy Centers. Also ideal for no prep sub lessons, these printable complex sentence building or sentence expansion worksheets include differentiation and worked examples to help students add detail and interest to their narrative writing. Use as warm ups / starter activities, bell ringers, support in SPED contexts, or have students complete multiple worksheets as a main lesson task to get them expanding sentences, using more ambitious vocabulary and using a wider variety of sentence structures. In building better, stronger sentences, students are encouraged to use more powerful verbs, interesting nouns, similes, start with adverbs or -ing and -ed words, add adjectives, use embedded clauses and commas, use conjunctions to add further information etc. Worksheets are in PDF format (51 pages). Great for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade, depending on experience and ability.
EASEL ACTIVITY: You can now assign to your students whichever pages of this resource you want with Easel. You can modify the digital version to meet the needs of your students, adding things like your own instructions and text boxes for students to type into. Students can then complete it on their device and return it to you.
***SAVE as part of this Improving Sentence Activities BUNDLE, which also includes my packet of 40 Complex Sentences Writing Activity Cards.
Or buy as part of this larger Writing Center Activities BUNDLE, which contains both the resources in the above bundle together with these 20 Creative Writing Story Prompt Cards.
Suitable for a range of ages and abilities, this resource scaffolds the descriptive writing of reluctant writers and those in some special education contexts, while also challenging more able writers. Each worksheet starts with a simple, boring sentence and, step-by-step, learners extend and improve it, constructing a fuller description, using different techniques. The worked examples could be shared on the board and perhaps printed and laminated to support less confident creative writers.
Includes:
- 30 worksheets (trails) for middle and higher ability / older students
- 10 worked examples for these trails
- 10 trails for lower ability / younger students, featuring built in examples and fewer instructions (A UK version of the lower ability trails replaces the word ‘period’ with ‘full stop’ and is included at the end of the file)
All resources are included with and without a pastel background. Printing with this background could support dyslexic students and those with other barriers to learning. Alternatively you could print the no background versions on pastel colored paper to reduce glare. Fonts used are also dyslexia-friendly.
The trails can be used as worksheets or could be laminated to make cards for regular use, with students recording sentences elsewhere. If enlarged and laminated they work well for paired or group use, with students using a dry-wipe marker.
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