Stretch a Sentence

Yesterday, I taught my students the joy of stretching sentences.  I made up a worksheet for them to complete and then we shared our work with the class.  You can download the file here!  Any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated!! I began the lesson with an Anchor Chart demonstrating how to stretch a sentence.  After the kids understood what I wanted them to do, they each wrote their own.  I had each student share their sentence with the class.  They did a really good job and really understood the lesson.  I then was faced with the challenge of how to display their work?!  Half-sheets aren't always the easiest to hang up in a nice looking way.  I decided to go the route of a quilt.  Since we did this on 9/11, I was in a very patriotic mood so I went with red, white and blue and stars for the display!  I love how it turned out.

This is the worksheet I made.  Be sure to download it!

Anchor Chart

Close-up of finished worksheets.

While we read the sentences they wrote, I called each student up like it was a game show! I would call their name and say that they were the next contestant on "Stretch That SENTENCE!!" and the other kids would say it with me... So fun!