Word+Choice

===**This website: ** [] is fabulous for teaching word choice. Students can choose from hundreds of interesting, appropriate images, then choose words to write a poem or descriptive sentence on the image. I like to use the "freestyle" which lets the kids type their own words/sentences. We've used it to start with a short 4-word sentence, then add a descriptive word to make it 5 words, then write the new sentence underneath the first. We keep adding descriptive words until the sentence is 8-10 words long.===



Picture Books
Please be on the look out for more great picture books for us to use to teach word choice.

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 * [[image:buhlerfive/what_if.jpg width="133" height="171" caption="Using nouns, verbs, adjectives" link="http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Prompts/toughboris3.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/silly_sally.jpg width="137" height="156" caption="Participles and "ing" verbs" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Silly_Sally_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/skippyjon_jones.jpg caption="Using nouns and adjectives" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Silly_Sally_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/rattletrap_car.jpg width="141" height="161" caption="Using onomatopoeia" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/RattleTrap_Car_word_choice.htm"]] ||
 * [[image:buhlerfive/tough_boris.jpg width="135" height="151" align="center" caption="Using strong adjectives"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/we_are_bears.jpg width="134" height="176" caption="Using precise nouns" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/We_Are_Bears_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/very_hungry_caterpillar.jpg caption="Using descriptive words" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Very_Hungry_Caterpillar_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/Roxaboxen.jpg caption="Descriptive Language" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Roxaboxen_word_choice.htm"]] ||
 * [[image:buhlerfive/If_not_for_the_cat.jpg width="129" height="130" caption="Powerful Adj and Verbs" link="http://writingfix.com/Picture_Book_Prompts/IfNotCat3.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/I_love_you_purplest.jpg caption="Similes" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/I_Love_You_Purplest_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/miss_alaineus.jpg width="130" height="149" caption="Using great word choice" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Miss_Alaineus_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:buhlerfive/insectlopedia.jpg caption="Alliteration, puns, rhymes" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Insectlopedia_word_choice.htm"]] ||
 * [[image:buhlerfive/clara_caterpillar.jpg caption="Alliteration" link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Clara_Caterpillar_word_choice.htm"]] || [[image:http://buhlerfive.wiki link="http://writingfix.com/PictureBookPrompts/Animalia_word_choice.htm"]] ||

[|Scary Spuds Project] This is the description of a writing project, perfect for October/fall - students create a "scary spud" potato person virtually or with paper, and then write a description. They then partner with another student to see if that other student can recreate their scary spud. Very adaptable lesson!