Crafting sentences

In one of our sessions we went over how the students could write any genre in the best possible way by crafting sentences using adjectives, adverbs, complex interrupters, zig zag sentences, simple, compound and complex sentences, linking ideas within paragraphs and linking paragraphs. We discussed how we could use AAAWWUBBIS (After, Although, As, When, While, Until, Before, Because, If, Since) to connect ideas within paragraphs and between paragraphs. We also discussed how we could convert simple sentences to compound sentences using FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So).

In the  piece of writing the students were working on, they were meant to make sure they crafted their sentences as they wrote. They also had to show me that they used all the different things they learned for crafting their sentences well. Their pieces of writing are being crafted well with the deliberate teaching of how to craft sentences in their writing no matter what genre they were writing.

I was so pleased that the students are writing and beginning to craft their sentences very well.

It will be interesting to see if the students use all that they learning over the term in their writing test.