Stamp A Story: Teaching word choice

The multicolored rainbow glistened in the blue sky.

First, read aloud a book that is rich in word choice and point out the descriptive language to students.  Next,  students look up synonyms in a thesaurus and write them down on a foldable. Then, I write sentences and model for them how I would change the sentences to make it sound more interesting. Then, the students make a picture with stamps and crayons and  write 3 sentences to go with their picture. The students edit their sentences by adding or changing words using the thesaurus and their schema. Last, the students make a picture with ink stamps and crayons.  Then, they write a story and edit it with a thesaurus and their schema. Stamp a story can then be used as a center or daily five activity!

                                                  Students write synonyms on a foldable