In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story starters that begin with participial phrases. Students will use these story starters at a later time for development, and during the later drafting, students should be re-directed to the use of participles and correct punctuation from this story-starting lesson's product. An interactive button is included on the lesson to help inspire creativity with the use of participles in sentences. [Requires Adobe Reader.]

Concepts

complex sentences, participles, punctuation, story starters

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Additional Tags

punctuating with commas, language arts common core standards lesson, northern nevada writing project, writingfix, simple, complex, and compound

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Common Core

L.3.1.i L.5.2.b L.3.2.c