Teaching Sentence Variety

Here is a very helpful resource to teach your students about sentence variety, just in time for your writing assessment! Fun and interactive writing sorts help take the guessing out of sentence variety. They give you the "I do" for your lesson and allow you to model effective sentence variety as well as ineffective examples. We frequently ask our students to vary the types of sentences they use in their essays, or ask them to revise the types they have already written, but do not have a visual way of showing them what we mean. The sentence variety writing sorts come with 7 paragraphs with low, medium, and high sentence variations. A graphic organizer is also provides to assist with scaffolding. This graphic organizer focuses on 4 main areas of sentence variation: punctuation, transitional phrases, sentence length, and conjunctions. Help your students identify various types of sentence structures. In addition, I've included the answer key for each paragraph; you may choose to use this resource in a center or with your writing interventionist. And finally, the attractive sort sheet makes this engaging learning activity seem more like a game. We used these sorts as the beginning of our writing instruction. Kids literally ran to class saying they couldn't wait to play "the game." I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Take a look at my TPT store to download your copy. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Sentence-Variety-Writing-Sorts