Farley is hosting her monthly Linky Party! Check out Currently February: As many of you know, I'm preggers (due in April). Therefore, my hubby and I are staying in a lot more than we usually do and watching lots of TV! We've watched Breaking Bad (all five seasons) and Homeland (just starting season two). We also watch lots of documentaries on Netflix. We found a great one the other night that I'd like to recommend. It's called "American Teacher" (2011), and it follows the lives and experiences of four teachers. It's only about 80 minutes long, so check it out if you have some free time! Matt Damon narrates the documentary so enjoy that! =) Photo courtesy of IMDb. On another note, did you hear about the Sunday Super Sale over at TpT!?! Everything in my store will be on sale for 28% off! Yippee!! I know I'll be shopping for lots of activities for the month of February, spring time writing activities, more clip art, and some center activities! Last but not least, I just added a great resource to my store called Sweet Sentences Mega Pack! It's only $4.00 and contains 56 pages of grammar and writing activities to help young writers grasp the concepts of complete vs. incomplete sentences. There are posters, activities for literacy stations and small groups, printables for independent practice, and whole group lessons. Check out a few examples below: {CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1j and CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1f} Leave a comment below about writing instruction in your classroom (also include your e-mail), and I'll choose a few lucky winners to receive the Sweet Sentences Mega Pack for FREE! :)

Print these pages in poster size or regular 8.5 x 11 to help students understand the concept of expanding sentences. ...

Expanding Sentences Anchor Chart and Mini-Lesson

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Download these Expanding Sentences Worksheets and use them in class today! Below, you'll find a collection of worksheets to help students practice writing complex sentences. To complete each worksheet, students must take a simple three-word sentence and expand it into a more interesting sentence by adding adverbs, adjectives, and more information. As always, these worksheets are free to use in your lessons.

This Combining and Expanding Sentences Worksheet is a great way for students to connect and rewrite sentences using a conjunction. This is a great way to help students improve their writing skills. Combining and Expanding Sentences Worksheet

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Students add more information to a series of sentences by telling where, when, or why. Then, they write each new complete sentence on the lines provided.

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This engaging activity will help students strengthen their understanding and usage of gerunds. In this worksheet, students will encounter a two-part exercise. In the first part, they will read a series of sentences and underline the gerund in each one. This exercise allows them to practice identifying gerunds within the context of a sentence. In...

It's hard to teach students how to expand their sentences. The book 'A Cow on the Couch' is the perfect activity for expanding sentences.

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This product was created to help students begin expanding sentences using pictures and prompts. You Get: 21 Slide Image PowerPoint Presentation 7 Student Response Sheets (Half Page Sheets with 3 Sentence Prompts) How It Works: The teacher displays the image on the screen. Students use the image to add details and expand the sentences. This response sheets are divided into threes to cover seven days worth of activities.

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The Sentence Game Let’s face it, writing is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice to master the many skills a writer needs. But practice can be boring. Not now! I’ve created a sentence writing game your kids will love. With this game they’ll write sentence after sentence without complaining, because it’s a game. It’s very simple, but practices very essential skills- capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The game can be played with 2 or more players. There’s even a way to play it with your whole class. Each student needs a word grid and a sentence/scoring sheet. Each set of players will also need one die and a scoring guide. Here's how it's played: v Each player rolls the die. The players then circle that number of words on their word grid. They circle the words down the first column, in order. Words cannot be skipped. v Now each player writes one sentence, using as many of the circled words as they can. If two sentences are written, only the first sentence will be scored. All of the circled words do not need to be used, but players earn one point for each grid word in their sentence. The words from the word grid cannot be changed. (ie. quickly cannot be changed to quick.) Important: After writing the sentence, players underline the grid words they used. This makes it easier for the checker to check the grid words. v Once all sentences are written, players pass their sentence/scoring sheet to the right. These players score the sentence and write the score in the box on the right. To play with your whole class, simply roll the dice once. Every student in class will use that number to circle the words on their grid. Once all the sentences are written, students can exchange their sheet with a partner for the scoring. After your students understand how to play you can play a round anytime you need a time filler. Students can keep their word grid and sentence/score sheet in a folder or their binder so it’s always handy. This game also works very well in a literacy center. Click on this image to download The Sentence Game. Happy writing!

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One of the areas my students struggle the most is with writing expanded sentences. They are so very good at writing short, simple sentences with no detail. You need an essay full of short, three word sentences and my students are your people! But good writing isn't made up of simple sentences alone. An author plays with sentence length to really convey meaning. I want my students to be able to do the same. I want their writing to sing the way that any other author's does. However, that is no simple task! The kids are content just writing about Jim going to the park with no further detail. So I decided to set out and see if I could teach my students how to expand sentences in a clear, coherent way. We have been talking a lot about how to make narratives better. I am always asking them who did what when where why and how? So I thought I would use that same idea to get the kids to expand their simple sentences. I gave them a very simple sentence. The man went shopping. I then asked them to draw it. After about 2 minutes of drawing, the students shared their sketches. Every single one of them had a different drawing. Some added a picture of Target. Some drew the man with a car. Others had him on a skateboard. There were some with a grocery cart. The sentences were so different because the sentence wasn't detailed enough. Working together, the kids and I started asking ourselves who was the man? Did he have a name? Was he old? How did he get to the store? By car, plane, roller-skates? If he came by car, what kind was it? A Corvette? If so, was the man wealthy? The students brainstormed this and more on a simple template I gave them. We then began to revise the sentence so that we could expand it. I had the students write the expansions right on top of the original sentence. Once it was fully expanded, the students then set out and redrew the sentence. This time around, the kids were all able to get a much more similar picture to each other! This really helped to drive home the point that the more details there are in a sentence, the easier it is for the reader to visualize the intended meaning. The next day, I had the students work in pairs with the same idea. This time, they wrote the expansion in pairs instead of as a class. They used the same ideas from the previous day and expanded a very short sentence. I asked the pairs to then write their sentence on a chart paper to compare what they each wrote. Finally, on the third day, I had the students each expand a different simple sentence on their own. They used the same expansion strategy of asking themselves Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? and then drew a picture of their expanded sentence. Once these were all done and displayed, I made it more of an interactive activity. The students put a sticky note over their drawing. The other students then came up and tried to draw the pictures themselves. They tried to see how close the pictures would match based on the expanded sentence! Overall, this set of three lessons really have set the kids up on a great path towards more detailed sentences. They are more conscious of what they are writing and how. Our next step is to venture into revising using those third expanded sentences. Making them clearer, more precise, and less long winded (because, let's face it, the kids liked to over expand at times ;) ) If you would like my exact lessons and all of the printables, you can pick them up here.

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! 

How do you teach your students to write longer, more interesting sentences? Sentence Go Round is a fun cooperative learning strategy where kids work with a group to revise and expand basic sentences. Banish run-on sentences and fragments forever!

Use this resource to practice taking simple sentences and expanding them by adding subordinating conjunctions.

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.

Sentence Stretch! A fun game to play to help children think about expanding sentences to include more information and description! A good game for a rainy day or an excellent English starter for...

Immerse your children into the wonderful world of Roald Dahl with these fantastic BFG character description lesson plans. Your Year 3 children will get to know the characters in greater depth by looking deeper into their qualities and will begin to understand how authors such as Roald Dahl uses descriptive language to paint a picture of characters in the reader's mind.    #TheCompleteSeries5lessons After recapping the use of adjectives, children will consider how different audiences feel about a character, checking their understanding of character vs characteristics. They will then move on to identify how Roald Dahl uses similes to describe characters. With lessons including how to use adjectives in a list and how to expand sentences using conjunctions, children will have the tools to write a character description with the opportunity to create their own BFG character in the alternative activity. This sequence of five English lesson plans is ready to teach, complete with detailed planning, engaging slideshows for teaching input, and a range of resources including differentiated worksheets and challenges. All designed to save teachers time!  Please be aware that, for copyright purposes, we are unable to provide the full text for this scheme of work. Extracts are provided where appropriate. If you are teaching the BFG make sure you have a look at our FREE BFG Brain Teasers. #Lesson1IdentifyingAdjectives Discover how the power of adjectives can create an image in the reader's mind in this lesson. With extracts from The BFG, children will be able to dive into the story and identify adjectives that best describe the character, giving them the opportunity to listen and share ideas in a group. In this lesson, your Year 3 children will learn how to use adjectives to describe the BFG, Sophie and the Bloodbottler with visual character cards and adjective cards.   What's included: Lesson plan Slides Activity ideas Differentiated character cards Differentiated adjective cards Secret Identity cards #Lesson2CharacterandCharacteristics In this lesson, children will learn the difference between character and characteristics. They will consider how synonyms can help develop their use of descriptive vocabulary and understand how different audiences may feel towards a character. Children will be encouraged to think about their own feelings towards The BFG characters and why they feel this way. This lesson comes with planning, slides for teaching input and a range of great resources to support children in their learning.   What's included: Lesson plan Slides Activity ideas Synonym word bank Audience cards Differentiated warning posters #Lesson3Similes In this lesson, children will focus on how to describe a character using similes. Children will practise identifying similes in extracts from The BFG and consider how Roald Dahl uses similes to describe not only a character's appearance, but also their personality and actions. With a range of simile examples taken straight from the text, children will begin to understand how Roald Dahl develops characters which will support them in thinking of their own similes. This lesson comes with fun ways to teach similes including simile puzzles and active simile games.   What's included: Lesson plan Slides Activity ideas Differentiated worksheets Differentiated character cards Simile puzzles Adjective Word Bank Challenge Cards Simile posters #Lesson4CharacterProfiles After getting to know the characters in The BFG, children will develop BFG character profiles to support them in their writing. Drawing on their understanding of descriptive language, including adjectives, synonyms and similes, children will use their BFG character profile templates to record their ideas. Complete with planning slides for teaching input and a range of differentiated resources, this lesson is ready to teach.   What's included: Lesson plan Slides Activity ideas Adjective word bank Simile prompt sheet Differentiated worksheets #Lesson5WritingCharacterDescriptions In this final BFG character description KS2 lesson, children will first look at two example character descriptions and will be asked to assess which is better and why. They will then be guided through how to take their ideas from their character profiles and expand words and phrases into full sentences. Children will use their character checklists to remind them of what should be included in their descriptions and will improve their writing through the editing challenge. Complete with a character description template to support children's writing, character checklists and tools to edit their writing, this lesson will challenge children to apply what they have learnt and allows them to bring characters to life.   What's included: Lesson plan Slides Activity ideas Slides Character description template Differentiated character checklists Editing Challenge Card Free Overview (Medium-Term Plan) Download a free overview to support your teaching of this scheme of work. Free Assessment Grid Download a free, editable assessment grid to support your teaching of this scheme of work. Curriculum Objectives covered Reading - Comprehension Objectives: listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context asking questions to improve their understanding of a text drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say Writing - Composition Objectives: discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar discussing and recording ideas composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures (English Appendix 2) in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors read aloud their own writing, to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controlling the tone and volume so that the meaning is clear Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Objectives: extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although English Appendix Objectives: Expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions [for example, when, before, after, while, so, because], adverbs [for example, then, next, soon, therefore], or prepositions [for example, before, after, during, in, because of] preposition, conjunction clause, subordinate clause Spoken Language Objectives: listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

Your students will feel the power in writing sentences with this expanding-sentence activity. Have your students use this organizer to practice adding details to a simple sentence. They will choose an adjective to describe the noun in the sentence. Then, they will either choose to expand the senten...

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Use this Silly Sentence printable in your literacy center for a fun activity to teach the parts of a sentence in English.

Happy November! I’m stopping in to share a brand new freebie with you called Expand-A-Sentence, which helps your students expand their sentences with adjectives. There is an example at the top for yo

This Expanding Sentences worksheet is an educational tool that guides students to transform simple sentences into complex ones by adding subordinate clauses. The worksheet lists simple sentences alongside a set of subordinating conjunctions such as “after,” “although,” and “whenever.” Students are instructed to choose a conjunction and craft a subordinate clause for each sentence, using...