Show, Don't Tell Sentences

As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.

In this declarative sentences learning exercise, students circle the groups of words (from 5 groups of 2 choices) that make "telling sentences." Students write the 5 groups they selected into sentences with capitalization and punctuation.

Young writers complete a unit of activities to learn and use writing strategies. They will complete 8 activities to prewrite, use descriptive words, asking and telling sentences, and correct spelling within their writing. Then they watch...

Middle schoolers learn to show, not tell, in their narrative writing. A slide show takes them through the process of choosing strong, descriptive words, and then provides writing prompts for them to use as practice. The first two pages...

In this declarative sentences worksheet, students correct the 6 statements by writing them on the line with a capital letter and punctuation. Students correct 5 sentences.

In this grammar worksheet, students play a game where they use cut out cards to make statements, questions, commands, and exclamation sentences.

Yeehaw! Review the basic structure of a sentence with a fun Western song. The video explains that a sentence must start with a capital letter, end with a punctuation mark, and contain words to convey an idea.

After each of three viewings of a 45-second video, aspiring writers employ vivid adjectives and precise, strong verbs to "show, don't tell." First they compose a single sentence, then three, and finally a five-sentence paragraph. Repeat...

Learners develop a descriptive paragraph and organize their ideas using a graphic organizer that differentiates between a "telling" and a "showing" sentence. In this writing lesson, students visualize the traits of the main character in...

Show, don't tell! Pairs work together to change a list of telling sentences into showing sentences using picture words that create vivid pictures in the readers’ minds.