Thursday, February 13, 2025

Super Sentence Writing!

 It's time for another session of "Authors and Artists Club," and we always begin the same way: the study of sentences.  We dive into grammar and how we can use it to make our sentences more interesting to read.  We learn about dependent clauses and prepositional phrases (yes, even my youngest students!) and how it is our job as writers to paint the perfect picture in our readers' minds of exactly what we want them to see.

We start with studying a boring sentence:

The snowflake falls.

It has what a sentence needs: A capital, a mark of punctuation, a noun, a verb, and a complete thought.  However, it is boring to read! With a guided lesson, the students each improve their sentences unti they become as unique as the snowflakes they created themselves!

Enjoy these samples from across the grades!

Because it is so excited, the pretty, white snowflake swirlingly falls on the snowy ground as I walk around the block. -Ella, 1st grade

The white sparkly snowflake falls in a fat frog's mouth on a cold icy morning because it's the last day of winter. -Anders, 2nd grade

The pretty amazing snowflake falls slowly into a little cute house on a cold midnight because it was starting to get sleepy and wanted to go home. -Evy, 3rd grade

Because the frozen cloud is sad, the fragile exotice snowflake falls elegantly into the calm ocean as the bright sun sets. - Matthew, 4th grade

As the sun hides behind the mountains, the elegant and fragile snowflake falls gracefully on the frosty cold grass. -Acey, 5th grade





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