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Thanksgiving Descriptive Writing Activity – Descriptive Sentences – Disguise a Turkey Class Book

Teach descriptive writing with adjectives and help some turkeys survive Thanksgiving with this fun, daily sentence-writing activity! Make a whole class Turkey in Disguise book in just a few minutes per day while practicing using adjectives. These Guided Sentence Writing Mini-Lessons Slides + Worksheets include slides for each day of the week with sentence starters, Descriptive Writing Anchor Chart Slides, Printable Student Sentence Writing Pages, a Help the Turkey Survive Thanksgiving Whole Class Book Templates, and 26 different turkeys in costumes to describe! Writing instruction and sentence building doesn’t have to be time-consuming or complicated!

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Explicitly practice writing a description using adjectives. Each day, your students will write a part of their description:

• Monday: Topic Sentence
• Tuesday: Appearance Sentence
• Wednesday: Personality/Character Sentence
• Thursday: Setting Sentence
• Friday: Closing Sentence

What You Get in this fun Thanksgiving Descriptive Writing Activity:

✎ Printable Student Pages

• 26 Different Turkeys in Disguise for your students to choose from!
• Single-sided version with all prompts on one page
• Double-sided version with editing checklist + rubric
• Double-sided version with and without days of the week
• Each version includes both plain and primary lines
• Template for Whole Class Book: “Help the Turkey Survive Thanksgiving”
• Color or Black and White Options
• Student Writing Pages for the collaborative class book with plain or primary lines.

✎ Teacher Materials:

Teaching Slides:

• Audience
• What is Descriptive Writing?
• Adjectives
• Things to Describe with Adjectives
• Let’s Describe the Turkey with Adjectives

Sentence-a-Day Slides:

• *Topic Sentence with Anchor Chart
• *Topic Sentence with Sentence Stems
• *Appearance Sentence with Anchor Chart
• *Appearance Sentence with Sentence Stems
• *Personality/Character Sentence with Anchor Chart
• *Personality/Character Sentence with Sentence Stems
• *Setting Sentence with Anchor Chart
• *Setting Sentence with Sentence Stems
• *Closing Sentence with Anchor Chart
• *Closing Sentence with Sentence Stems
• *Putting it All Together Example
• *Editable Slides Included!

✎Extras:

• Teacher Notes and Ideas
• Turkey Safety Tips Pages
• Revising with A.R.M.S Checklist
• Editing with C.U.P.S Checklist

⇨Looking for more Guided Sentence Writing Resources?

• Sentence Writing – Getting to Know You – Writing Sentence a Day – Back to School
• Sentence Writing – Sentence Types – Writing Sentence a Day – February
• End of the Year Activity! – Sentence Writing – Sentence a Day – Types of Writing

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Teaching,

Hilary