My authors and artists started the session off with a very important lesson in grammar, and how we can use the various parts of speech to make our writing more interesting to read. Through adjectives, adverbs, clauses, and phrases, we can paint the perfect picture in our readers' minds of exactly what we want them to see. And that is what good writers do!
We started off with learning that a sentence just needs 5 things to be a sentence:
1. A capital at the beginning
2. A mark of punctuation at the end
3. A noun
4. A verb
5. A complete thought
Once we learned that, we looked at this boring sentence:
The ocean waves crash.
It's a sentence, but it's boring! (Although, my students did notice that "ocean" plays an interesting part. It sounds like a noun, but it's working as an adjective to describe "waves!" However, this sentence lacks detail. So we added two adjectives, an adverb, a "where" phrase, and a "when" clause or phrase. We also had a lot of fun making this into a crafty project. Look at the improvements across the grades!
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