Improving Writing
Small ways to get better at writing.
"Add more variety!" I'd say to my class. But I never really knew what this actually meant. Suprise! This bad advice never improved students' writing. In these videos, students learn nine specific ways to add variety just by changing the beginning of their sentences. This was easily one of my students' favorite writing tools - because it actually helped them.
We'll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.
What happens when a pronoun could refer to more than one noun? Big problems!
We'll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with gerunds, participle phrases, and absolute phrases.
In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.