Minilesson: Sentence Revision- “Amazing Words” By Sean-Michael Pfeiffer
Please Choose ONE sentence from the following: 1)
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. (Sentence uses every letter of the Alphabet if you notice) OR
2)
My very educated mother just taught us how to add numbers.
The underlined words in your sentence have a corresponding number. Write these words with their matching number on lines one and two. Take each number one by one and find the “Amazing Word” in the Thesaurus Word Box to replace it. Fill that word in on line three and four. Sentence 1: underlined words 1)
Quick
4)
Dogs
2)
Jumped
3)
Lazy
Sentence 2: underlined words 1)
Educated
4)
Numbers
2)
Taught
3)
Sentence 1: 1)
2)
3)
2)
3)
4) Sentence 2: 1)
4)
Add
Now, re-write your new “Beefy” sentence on the following lines provided…
Notice the words that might work as a thesaurus alternate for the original but don’t always fit with your other, replaced, “Amazing Words.” Keep working to make the “Amazing Words” fit together in the sentence. Now, on the remaining lines, re-write your sentence, read it, and ask yourself if this sentence doesn’t sound more descriptive, fun, and beefy!!!
“Amazing Word” Thesaurus Word Box alacritous
append
tack ready
prompt willing
hop erudite scholarly
educate numeral
expeditious slothful
literate
leap
spring
knowledgeable well-read
bound
vault learned school
indoctrinate
alert
instruct
train
tutor
pooch