Tuesday 10 June 2008

A new challenge...

We have been working on turning telling sentences into showing sentences.
Remember:

Word Choice can make a difference in your writing. Showing is more powerful than telling. Words that speak to the senses build images. Words that describe sounds, smells, and tastes evoke memories. Flat, dull, boring, or vivid, resonant, and lucid-- how will it be? Where will we find those few well-chosen words to dazzle the mind's eye?

Now I challenge you to turn these telling sentences into good showing ones.
Remeber to work on your own or with a peer as you can work collaboratively in the wiki.
Just click on the link below, follow instructions, have fun and get housepoints!

Telling vs Showing

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
I've been writing some showing sentences in the page I have created. It serves like a great practice for our work in class!!
well I hope you see them!!
see you,
pili m

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
I've already finished with the showing paragrafhs and I have to paste them on my page. This will help us a lot when we have to do this work on class.

See you,

Shany M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
I did this, i was very, very good and entretaining!! Really enjoyed it!! I hopoe you put more and more because I feel really confortable and happy doind this things because I think i really was interesting when you where talking about this and I felt it was a very good activity!
I have really enjoyed it!
kiki

Anonymous said...

Hey Miss Ale:
Here is the blogger! I finished the two telling sentences. I really enjoyed making them. Great idea! Hope everyone enjoys doing it as you said. And I think it is a REALLY good practice for us.
Kisses
Valerie

Anonymous said...

Ale: I did the two showing and telling sentences! It was very fun doing it!! Can you put more sentences? Here is a challenge for us all, instead of putting the telling sentence and that we have to write the showing one put us a showing sentence(a long one, if not is not a challenge) and we have to put the telling sentence! It will be fun too!I think it's a great prectice for us for then to know it good in class!! Keep posting your nice and interesting comments and...
See you soon...!
Agus.T!

Anonymous said...

Sorry I didn't do this earlier! I did the showing sentences and I'm planning to do more!

Julieta I

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale: I´m going to enter to this new and excited work. This is a great idea for all of us because we can tell or write a story with details. This Ale is a very interesting thong that I´m learning and know we can write our own stories with details, expression or expand ideas all those things that make a reader interest on your and imagine the images in their own mind.
Ines G.

Anonymous said...

I love doing this Miss Ale, pleas ADD MORE!!!! Now I am informed,: Happy Monday!!!
Andy P.

Anonymous said...

Miss ALE, I already put a paraghraf. It is wonderfull.

Santos D.

Anonymous said...

Miss. Ale I finished with elang pbeiki, its so fun I love posting showing coments.. The one of th eppizza dine in class too!! I was so hungry!
See You,
Maia.M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale I did the post i elang.pbwiki of shoeing versus telling! Its great
Kisses
Clara.C

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale, I already did the showing sentences. I hope you like them. Thank you,

Felipe M

Anonymous said...

Hi miss Ale I wrote a long and descriptive paraghraph about Bob, the boy that was scared. One question I put the paragraph in the page I created in elang but do I have to put the paragraph in my page in efantasy ?

bye bye
Thomas D

Anonymous said...

Hi Miss Ale!!!
It has past a long time since I post a comment and well you had realised. Well now when I finish posting lots of comments Im going to entered the wiki and the link so I write the showing and telling sentences, well if I have time!!!
Im not going to tell you that I love discusing showing and telling sentences, but.... there are not bad at all!....I could say that I enjoy them and I can notice that this is going to help us with our writting specialy me because my writting is not the better of all!!! Well bye!!!
See you!
Juli.G