Introducing Action Words in Writers Workshop

Bare bone Sentences

A new writing curriculum that I am trying this year is called Framing Your Thoughts. I have already taught the children that a sentence has a subject (a person place or thing that the sentence is about). Today, I introduced action words. I taught them that these action words are called predicates. Predicates can be physical or mental actions. We sorted a few into the two categories. The next step was to put the two together. They wrote and illustrated a bare bone sentence. My goal is to expand on the predicates that they choose to enrich their writing. As you read their sentences with them, feel free to see if they can come up with some more exciting predicates. For example,

The bird flies.

Could be changed to:

The bird swoops.

The bird soars.

The bird glides.

I am excited to see how this enriches their writing!