Product Description:
This packet helps students in the lower grades or students in the upper grades that would benefit from visual representations to improve written expression skills. Each page depicts a colorful picture along with notes for the student to brainstorm information that they may wish to incorporate into their descriptive sentence at the bottom of each page.
Common Core:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.a
Use collective nouns (e.g., group).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.b
Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.c
Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.d
Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.e
Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.f
Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2.c
Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2.d
Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).
R.L. 2.1 Asking and answering “who, what, where, when, why, and how” questions helps students learn to locate evidence in texts to craft their questions and support their answers.