Writer's Workshop: Sizzling Sentences to Perfect Paragraphs

Each week, students will learn how to write/craft, edit and revise different types and examples of sentences. Students will learn writing detailed simple sentences to creative and complex compound sentences. The teacher will show example/mentor sentences per week and give explanation on the type of sentences and how they can craft their sentences better. 

June 7:  Elaborating Ideas Using Different Levels of Details
June 14: Fixing Run-On Sentences
June 21: Writing Descriptions That "Show" Instead of "Tell"
July 5: Sentence Modeling with the Masters
July 12: Strong Sentences (Nearpod)
July 19 : Forming a Focus
July 26: Using Transitions to Add Information and Emphasis
August 2: Using Time-Order Transitions
August 9: Using Commas with Numbers and Interjections
August 16: Cause and Effect Sentences, Combining Choppy Sentences
August 23: Starting Stories: 5 Great Beginning Strategies
August 30: Using Anecdotes in Formal Writing

- detailed standard sentence
- Descriptive Paragraph
- sentences containing dialogue
- Narrative Paragraph
- sentences with indirect quotation
-  Expository Paragraph
- Writing sentences expressing opinions
- Sentence Featuring a Simile, Sentence Featuring a Metaphor 
- Organizing Essay Structure
- Persuasive Paragraph - Unusual Homes
- Types of Sentences


Lesson inspired and permitted by: Mack Lewis (Scholastic) macklewis.com