Improving and Expanding Sentences Fun Creative Writing Activities BUNDLE
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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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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 stretching sentences worksheets with differentiation. Ideal for warms ups for creative writing lessons, morning starter tasks / bell work, early finishers challenges, homework etc. All in PDF format.
COMPLEX SENTENCES ACTIVITY CARDS:
40 printable complex sentence-formation activity cards in color and black and white versions. An introductory support card models different ways to add interest and variety to sentences. This resource encourages building complex and compound sentences, using subordinate clauses etc. Perhaps let students come up with as silly a sentence as they want and have fun playing with words to banish boring sentences.
Designed as a dice game, it can be used in other ways. As individuals, in pairs, or in groups, students roll to find out which 3 words they must incorporate into a sentence (Instructions are on the cards). There are 6 groups of words on each card – openers/connectives, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and two groups of nouns. Students place the selected words anywhere in their sentence, as long as it makes sense, recording the sentence on paper or a mini whiteboard. You may wish to allow flexibility (changing verb tense, using the verb as an adjective etc.)
To cater for different situations and abilities, change the number of words they roll for, have students team up with a partner or select any words they want from the card. Encourage dictionary use for unfamiliar words and urge children to keep sentences they are especially proud of so they can use them in longer pieces of writing later. The activity might spark a whole story!
Print on card or paper and laminate for repeated use. With a smaller group, choose the ones you print and/or laminate cards back to back. You could also display cards on the board for whole class use.
IMPROVING SENTENCES WORKSHEETS (TRAILS):
These are now available to assign to your students through Easel. You can add your own instructions and answer boxes as required.
40 dyslexia-friendly complex sentence construction trails, which includes differentiation and worked examples to help students add detail and interest to their narrative writing. These get students stretching 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, drop further information into sentences using subclauses and commas, use conjunctions to add further information etc. PDF format in the zip file.
Suitable for a range of ages and abilities, this resource scaffolds the descriptive writing of reluctant or struggling writers, 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. Works well as a regular warm-up for writing or as an early finisher task.
Includes:
- 30 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" - see separate PDF file within the zip 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 blown up to 11x17 and laminated they work well for paired or group use, with students using a dry-wipe marker.
BUY THESE 2 PACKETS IN A LARGER Writing Centers BUNDLE, which also contains: Story Starters Creative Writing Prompts
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