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Grade 2 Writing Worksheet - Building Confidence
Rewrite the sentence. Use a clearer word in place of the word in brackets.
There was a (thing) in the tree.
She (said) "Be quiet!" in the library.
She (walked) into the dark cave.
The baby (laughed) at the clown.
She (looked) at the cake.
He (looked) at the stars all night.
Some words are so general that they tell a reader very little. A nice dinner could be anything, and a thing in a tree could be a kite, a bird or a nest. Good writers revise by swapping a vague word for a clearer one, such as delicious dinner or red kite. The reader then sees exactly what the writer saw. This worksheet gives six sentences, each with one vague word in brackets.
The child rewrites the whole sentence on the line, putting a clearer and more exact word where the vague word was. Many answers are right, as long as the new word is more exact and the sentence still makes sense. Ask your child to read the new sentence aloud and ask: can I see it in my mind more clearly now?
Common Core standard: W.2.5
My mom made a (nice) dinner for us. Nice does not say much. A clearer word is delicious: My mom made a delicious dinner for us.
Changing the sentence so much that it no longer says the same thing.
Ask: what exact word would show what I mean?
Changing the sentence so much that it no longer says the same thing.
Ask: what exact word would show what I mean?
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