Writing: Stretch A Sentence (Early Elementary & Intervention)

This resource was created SPECIFICALLY for the primary grades.

With the era of high stakes testing, writing has become one, if not THE, least stressed skills there is. Many districts have NO writing curriculum to speak of. As a result, students today have difficulty even putting together solid sentences. This is my contribution to helping eliminate this deficiency.

When I was taught how to write, so many decades ago, I was told that if I answered the 5 "Ws" I would always have a complete thought, which meant a complete sentence. Regardless of the writing task, a sentence, a paragraph, or an essay, this was how I approached any writing task throughout elementary school. We did a lot more writing back then than we have students doing today.

To clarify the "What" on this resource. As each sentence must have a Subject, a who", and a predicate, a "do", the "what" in the 5 Ws is "Doing what?", instead of "What happened?" This is just enough to make a very simple sentence and should meet the needs of brand-new writers.

I added posters and worksheets that follow a progression; simple subject and predicate sentences, followed by the addition of posters for adverbs and adjective sentence writing for more well-rounded writing practice. You can opt to have students practice writing simple sentences with adverbs OR adjectives, or BOTH at the same time. I hope I didn't make this overly simple too convoluted.

Dimensions 24" x 31"

Suitable for printing to letter-size paper. Just set the printing preferences of your printer to "Fit".

It also contains a graphic organizer that can also be printed off poster-sized for whole group modeling or letter-size for individual student use.

If there are any errors in this file, please do not hesitate to contact me. I can address any issues in less than 24 hours.

Note!

You will need the proper fonts installed on your machine when working with the included PowerPoint files. There is a font list included in the zipfile. Because the PowerPoints were converted from the original PDF THERE WILL BE SOME FORMATTING ISSUES!!! There is no getting around it. Those I cannot fix.

Protected Fonts

Myriad Pro (Adobe Fonts)

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Fonts:

American Typewriter (TrueType)

Warmonger BB (TrueType)

Holy Mackerel! (TrueType)

Janda Safe and Sound (TrueType)

6/20-DISTANCE LEARNING!!! I have converted the worksheets to editable/interactive PDFs that you and your students can edit and work with. You need the KAMI app for Chrome to be able to do this. This will save you time in having to convert these from PDF to PowerPoint to Google Slides. First, you can bypass all the text fields in the PDF and notate the documents directly since KAMI is a PDF annotator. If you prefer neatness, here are your directions.

1. You will need to have students download these to Google Drive from whatever LMS (Canvas, Google Classroom, Top Hat, Schoolology, Blackboard, Moodle, etc.) you have uploaded them to.
2. Immediately move the downloaded file from the Downloads folder to a permanent folder that you have set up. The Downloads folder on Google Drive (at least on a Chromebook) is temporary so do not leave files there.
3. Have students open the PDF.
4. Click on the KAMI app icon in chrome in the top right.
5. Have students fill in blanks using the Text Tool. Double-click in the text field to begin typing.

Note! You can use the Kami app to annotate the PDFs directly since that is its main function.

I hope you find it useful.