Sentence Fluency

Lesson Plan Title: Kernel Paragraph – Sentence Fluency Trait: Sentence Fluency Materials: • Paper • Pencils • 1 worksheet for each pair of students Instructional Objective: The learner will improve the fluency of a paragraph by making some minor adjustments. Introduction: • Prior to this lesson, the students should have a basic understanding of the trait, Sentence Fluency. This could be reviewed by looking at several short pieces of writing for fluency as a class. Body: • Break the students into pairs, and give each pair a copy of one of the worksheets that appear on page two and three of this document. • Carefully read over the instructions with the class, and then have the students begin. Conclusion: • Instruct the students to do one of the following things: o They can write their own paragraph using at least three of the techniques that they practiced on the worksheet. o Revise a previous piece of writing in the same manner. Additional Ideas: • Let students score each others’ pieces of writing for sentence fluency. It is important that they include rubric backed reasons for the scores that they give. • Write an informative newspaper or magazine article about the lost luggage event from the worksheet. Encourage students to include direct quotations from passengers and the airport.

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Revising a Kernel Paragraph – Activity 1 (Sentence Structure) Name #1______________________________ Name #2__________________________ Instructions: Read over the paragraph below with your partner. Then make the changes suggested at the bottom of this page using proper editing marks. You may use your text book to help you. When you have completed all steps, copy the revised paragraph onto a fresh sheet of paper.

(1) The airplane taxied to the gate. (2)The aircraft was a large 747. (3)Excited vacationers hurried down the walkway. (4)They had saved their money all year for this trip. (5)Luggage circulated on the carousel in the baggage claim. (6)Seventy-eight passengers from...