Sentence Stretching

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This is an excellent writing exercise, getting students to increase the length of their sentences and beginning to use clauses.

Write a simple sentence on the board. Students copy it.

Ex. The dog ran. 

Ask the students questions and the students after each question must rewrite the sentence, answering the question.

Ex. Where? The dog ran ………….

      What color of dog? The …….. dog ran to his mother

      How?  The black dog slowly ran to his mother

      How long?  The black dog slowly ran to his mother ……

      Why?  The black dog slowly ran to his mother for 30 minutes because ……

Afterwards, get students to read their creative sentences to the class and to each other. You’ll be amazed at how well they can do this and write.

Here’s an example of sentence stretching on powerpoint – from the Owl of Purdue’s writing lab.

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2 Responses to Sentence Stretching

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Luke Martin

September 29th, 2009 at 9:55 am

This is a fantastic idea! I had so much trouble with getting students to do this last year! Thanks!

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Catherine

October 6th, 2009 at 10:11 am

Great PPT. My students loved this and actually wanted to write sentences afterwards.

Thank you :O)

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