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hi everyone and welcome back to my channel
channel
my name is sonam and i am an english
language arts teacher in houston texas
in today's video i'm going to show you
how you can teach your students
seven ways that they can start their sentences
sentences
all of the techniques i'm going to talk
about today are accessible to all students
students
because they can vary their sentence
structure even if they don't know
the correct grammatical term for the
strategy that they're using
for the video today i'm going to use the
base sentence she ran
outside so every revision that i make
will be some version
of this sentence the first strategy is
to use emotion words
ask your students to make a list of
emotions once your students have made
that list then
ask them what this main character would be
be
frustrated excited anxious or concerned about
about
and to add that on to the emotion word
at this point students can connect these
phrases to that base sentence to create
a new one
excited to play with her friends she ran
outside students can even ask themselves
if she's excited to play with friends
then maybe we can even change this word
to something else like bolts or sprints
ask students to read these sentences
aloud and wherever they naturally pause
is where the comma goes
for the next strategy ask your students
to make a list of verbs ending in
ing then students ask themselves
what is she moaning what is she flinging
what is she surveying and they add that
to the sentence as well
then you ask students to use these phrases
phrases
to then change the base sentence so if
she is flinging her backpack over her shoulder
shoulder
she's likely running outside to catch
the bus so i'm going to add that as well
and similarly these phrases will have
commas after them because when students
for the next strategy ask your students
to make a list of words that end in
l y then students think to themselves
what was she mysteriously doing what was
she nearly doing
what was she urgently doing and they add
that to this as well
based on these new sentence stems
students then add additional details to this
this
base sentence so if she is nearly
stumbling over the ledge
then maybe she's running outside after a toddler
toddler
and in that case maybe she's not just
running she's sprinting outside
the next strategy is to make a list of
verbs with the word
to in front of them then students ask themselves
themselves
to catch what to enjoy what
to help what and they add those ideas to
these initial
words notice that these phrases also
have commas after them
i think it's also worthwhile to know
that you could take these phrases
and add them to the end of this sentence
so it could say she ran outside
to catch the bus putting these phrases
at the beginning just changes the
sentence structure
and gives students a couple of more
options for writing
the next strategy is to make a list of
where something happens
now i will admit this technique is a
little bit awkward with the base
sentence that i chose
if you say behind her friend she ran
outside it may sound a little bit
smoother if you just say she ran outside
behind her
friend but this gives students some
options for sentence variety
and it can sound a little bit more
poetic if you say behind her friend
she ran outside i could also change the
word ran
to race strategy number six is to have
your students make a list of
when something is happening after
students have this list
ask them what they can add to this
sentence so that this makes sense
in the morning she ran outside to catch
the bus
after lunch she ran outside to play with
her friends
right at nine o'clock she ran outside to
meet them
the final technique is to ask your
students to make a list
of sounds this is the only strategy
where these words are not part of this
sentence so i often have students
write these sound words in italics and
separate them from the
main sentence however you can ask your
students to then
add details to the sentence based on
these words right here
notice how if we use the word slam she ran
ran
outside suddenly that gives a sentence a completely
completely
different mood because now you think
that she is
really upset and that's why she's
running outside
so i hope these tips get your students
excited about
writing please don't forget to like
comment and subscribe to my channel for
more teaching tips
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