ACTIVITIES WORKSHEET

Grade Level - 2

Course – Quality of Writing

Week Taught (2-35) - 6

State Standard: * Write with an awareness of the stylistic aspects of composition.

St. Marys Standard: * 1.5.2D Students will write with an awareness and command of the different aspects of style in their writing.

Essential Question: Why are descriptive words important in writing style? Why are varied sentence lengths important in writing style?

Student will know: *	Student will be able to: *
to vary length of sentences and to choose descriptive words.	write sentences of varying length and complexity using descriptive words.

Assessment Question:*

1. Paper/Pencil:** What elements of writing are necessary in order to create an interesting and well-composed piece of writing?

Answer:** The necessary elements are descriptive words and varied sentence length.

2. Performance Question:**Create a descriptive paragraph telling about your experience on a summer vacation trip. Remember to include interesting words and a variety of sentence lengths.

Assessment Tool:** rubric which rates vocabulary and sentence structure.

Activity: Write each student’s name on a slip of paper and place each name in a hat. Have each student choose a name, but keep it secret. For a week, students would secretly place nice notes or small tokens in their “secret pal’s” bin or desk. At the end of the week, have students reveal themselves to their secret pal. Students would then write thank you letters to one another for all the thoughtful notes and tokens received that week.

Duration: 1 week

Resources for this activity: paper, pencils, variety of small tokens which students give to one another

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Code: CG1.5.2D Date Developed 2-10-03

Teacher Assigned Laurie Taylor Date Approved: 06/03