Sentence combining

My friend is fun to be with.
She has good ideas.
She always chews bubble gum.
She always wears a blue ribbon.

My friend is fun to be with, has good ideas, chews bubble gum, and always wears a blue ribbon.

My bubble gum chewing friend Sally who always wears a blue ribbon in her hair has good ideas and is fun to be with.

Activities: hace students write four short sentences and pass their paper to the right for the next student to combine the sentences.

Clusters - graghic display

Poem patterns
take a passage from a great writer, substitute words that are the same part of speech, follow the pattern

Journal


describe a mural or picture

free writing
10 minutes of writing
teacher provides prompt to stimulate thoughts

show and not tell

divide students and have them
desribe the pictures
use adjectives and adverbs
be specific as possible

have other students draw the picture describes
compare pictures
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write one sentence and pass paper