Standard 5: Language Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend texts and communicate effectively.

2.5.W.2 ​Students will use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to add clarity and variety to their writing.

Student Actions

Teacher Actions

• Students incorporate nouns when writing in order to provide clarity and variety.

• Students incorporate verbs when writing in order to provide clarity and variety.

• Students incorporate adjectives when writing to add details in order to provide clarity and variety. 

• Teachers model using nouns, verbs, and adjectives in writing through shared writing experiences where teachers and students jointly draft a written text, pausing to discuss word choice in order to add clarity and variety. 

• Teachers model revising a draft through a whole-class or small-group experience where the teacher reads aloud the sentence(s) and asks students to make the piece more interesting by adding nouns, verbs, and/or adjectives. 

• Teachers provide materials and opportunities for students to write daily. 

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback focusing on clarity and variety.

Recommendations

Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students struggle with adding nouns, verbs, and adjectives to provide clarity and variety to their writing, teachers can… 

• create an anchor chart with words that could add clarity and variety for students to reference during writing.

• provide students with two sentences, guiding them to make one comprehensive sentence.

• 1st sentence: The dog ran after the car.

• 2nd sentence: The dog is brown.

• Final product: The brown dog ran after the car.

• review students' writing, prompting them with questions in order to encourage details to be added to the sentence (e.g., What color was her shirt? How fast did the boy run?). 

• Adjectives: a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives tell what kind, how many, how much, and which one.

• Noun: a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

• Shared Writing: an interactive writing experience where students create writing with the guidance and support of the teacher.

• Verb: a word that expresses action or state of being.

• 2.2.PC: Understand features of a sentence

• 2.2.W.3: Revise drafts

• 2.3.W.1: Narrative writing

• 2.3.W.2: Informative writing

• 2.3.W.3: Opinion writing

• 2.8.W: Independent writing