Language Building

These activities give you practice at building up your vocabulary, and creating really powerful sentences. You get to explore how you can show different moods by your language choices, how to use conjunctions and connectives to create both compound and complex sentences, ways to mix up the lengths and starts of your sentences, and how to use this to vary your writing style. There are activities on how to 'show, not tell' your ideas and feelings, how to write good dialogue and how to develop your characters. I will add more as I design them.

Language Builders

Category: Language Building

 Writing Powerful Sentences

Using the moods down the left-

hand side column, create

powerful sentences by adding

phrases and clauses as

shown, with descriptive 

vocabulary that brings the

original sentence to life.

  

 Connective Clouds 1

Use this chart to match the 

connectives and their placement

in the sentence on the

accompanying cards. Follow the 

instructions.

  

 Connectives Cards 1

Have the student read a card

and then identify the main 

sentence and subordinate clause.

Match the connecting word with

the appropriate cloud.

  

 Connective Clouds 2

Use this chart to match the 

connectives and their placement

in the sentence on the 

accompanying cards. Follow the 

instructions.

  

 Connectives Cards 2

Have the student read a card

and then identify the main 

sentence and subordinate clause.

Match the connecting word with

the appropriate cloud.

  

 Powerful Verbs for Said - Chart

Use this chart with the student to

help them find interesting 'said'

words and their synonyms and

antonyms.

 

  

 Powerful Verbs for Said - Template

Have the student chose a 'said'

word and then place it in the 

correct box for its mood. Throw 

the dice from the drop-down in

the Resources menu to work out

a definition, synonym and 

antonym using the  

accompanying chart, then find

the syllables and a rhyme for

the word. Lastly write a sentence

using the words that you might  

say if you were tagging direct  

speech with that word and

puncutate it correctly.