Show and Tell Presentation Template

Name of your writing activity:

Making large sentence easy

Teaching Context
Level of students Grade Level
beginner ◆intermediate advanced Middle School 1 Middle School 2
mixed level Middle School 3
◆High School 1 High School 2 High
Number of Students School 3
<10 10-20 ◆20-40
Class Time
Other; please specify __________ ◆Regular Class Afterschool Class
50 min 90 min Other; please
specify __________

Activity Description
What writing skills does this activity teach?
•to make rich, full sentences
•to make grammatically correct sequence

List steps/instructions required to perform this activity.

1. Make groups of 6-7 students.
1. Start with a simple sentence IE : “I like soccer.”
2. Add one or more words IE : “I like (+to play) soccer.”
3. Do it again. IE : “I like (+to play) soccer (+after school).”
4. Do it one more time. IE : “(+Every day) I like (+to play) (+after school)”
5. Repeat this step again and again according to the student’s level.

Rationale
Why would you use this writing activity in your classroom?
•Every students can participate in this activity.
•Students get very excited over this very easy way to make rich, full sentences.
•Students feel comfortable because they don’t have to make a long sentence alone and everyone is
responsible,

Could this activity be easily adapted to different teaching contexts? If so how? If not, why not?
•Yes. I hope so.
Because the possibilities are endless and they will soon be writing amazing things they themselves never
realized they could write.

Activity Strengths Activity Weaknesses

It doesn’t need special materials. The one who doesn’t have grammatical
Students’ creativity will be developed. knowledge can be excluded.
Through this activity students can learn
grammatical order.

Making Large Sentences Easy!

 I have a dream.

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