Descriptive writers are effective writers. This four-page worksheet contains a wide variety of exercises teaching students to use adjectives and adverbs in their writing
Writing Skills Packet
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How To Improve Writing Skills Worksheets Packet
With this packet of twelve products in their repertoire, speech language pathologists, tutors, and teachers will be able to effectively help their adolescent and young adult students improve their ability to express themselves in writing. The first three products, Linguistic Specificity, Linguistic Flexibility, and Descriptive Writing: Adjectives and Adverbs, teach students to use more specific and descriptive language in their sentences. The next four, Redundancy, Clarity and Simplification, Adding Meaning: Simplify and Elaborate, and Elaboration When Answering Homework Questions, really focus on meaning, and help students improve their comprehension and their ability to express their ideas fully. Perspective Consistency and Passive and Active Voice target grammar. Character Description and Movie Reviews provide easy-to-use strategies, scaffolds, and outlines so that students can begin to incorporate all the previous writing lessons into actual essays. The last product in the writing skills packet, Complaint Letters: Reader Presupposition, is one of my all-time favorites and focuses directly on the ability to consider your reader: one of the most important skills in effective writing!
Worksheets Included In The Packet
Linguistic Flexibility Worksheet
Using this worksheet, students expand their vocabulary while familiarizing themselves with using a thesaurus as they find multiple synonyms for underlined words within sentences
Movie Review Outline
This simple-to-use movie review outline helps students write a multi-paragraph essay that includes an introduction, plot summary, critique, and recommendations
Passive and Active Voice Worksheet
This worksheet teaches students how to distinguish between passive and active voice, and encourages them to write in the active voice, making them stronger writers
Perspective Consistency Activity
This activity works on the ability to keep a consistent perspective. Students choose a perspective, then adjust nouns and pronouns to maintain consistency within a given essay
Redundancy Worksheet
For this worksheet, students identify redundant components within sentences, and then choose which to omit and which to keep in order to maintain maximum meaning
Simplification and Elaboration Activity
A student favorite! After simplifying comically obfuscated sentences, students enhance meaning by adding adjectives, adverbs, and other details following a roll of dice
Writing a Complaint Letter
This activity includes a letter sample, writing assignments, and therapeutic notes that target students’ ability to regard their potential readers when writing
Answering Homework Questions
Teaches students how to evaluate meanings within sentences, encouraging them to elaborate on the meaning of their homework and test answers
Linguistic Specificity Worksheet
For this worksheet, students are tasked with replacing non-specific nouns and adjectives within sentences with more specific terms, thereby learning to write with more clarity
Character Descriptions Activity
This literary character analysis activity includes a novel excerpt, scaffolding framework, and sample essay from which students learn to write comprehensive character descriptions
Clarity and Simplification Worksheet
Using this worksheet, students must syntactically simplify phrases and sentences while maintaining original meaning, thereby learning to express their ideas concisely
Transition Words & Phrases
Following a handout that identifies eight different conceptual relationships and provides sample words and phrases that convey those relationships, students use a three-page worksheet to identify and express relationships from pairs of ideas.
