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Try It: Powerful Descriptions

Try It Powerful Descriptions

That’s amazing!

Imagine you’ve just seen an astonishing sight like a dolphin flying through the air.

  • How would your body react? Try it! 
  • How would you express that physical reaction in words?

Powerful Descriptions

Today’s Try It prompt is from Week Four of Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North Dart. Duane the polar bear and his friends are astonished at the actions of their friend Handsome!

Eyes widened as mouths and beaks fell open all at the same time.

(Oh, my! I could not believe what Handsome did either! I gasped!)

Choose another emotion to experiment with—keep it light and get bodies moving.

  • Ask: How does your body react if something makes you angry or delighted or scared?
  • Act out the feeling, noticing what your body does.
  • Find words that capture that physical response. (Write them on a whiteboard—then play with them.)

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Try It Activities: The Complete List

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Sometimes, the best way to learn something is to TRY IT!

This collection of posts offers short activities you can do right away with your kids—with little to no prep!

Engage your kids in writing mechanics (grammar, punctuation, spelling) in a whole new way! The Brave Writer way!

Just Try it!

  • Book Hooks
  • Reading Faces
  • Pushy Prepositions
  • Interview at 11:00
  • Free Writers
  • Clever Combinations
  • Powerful Descriptions
  • Terrific Titles
  • Spot Some Sequences
  • Concise Colors

Bookmark this page! Try It activities will be added as we share them.

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Try It: Clever Combinations

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Wordplay is a great way to make grammar concepts stick! 

When two words team up to create one, you’ve got a compound word. And compound words offer a lively opportunity for active wordplay.

Let’s make some clever combinations!

This activity is from the Arrow (ages 11-12) for the book It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas.

Encourage your kids to combine an everyday noun with a food item, then let your imaginations soar!

EVERYDAY OBJECTS

mail
cat
glass
book
daisy
poodle
wool
chair
keyboard
straw
pencil
desk

FOODS

pizza
steak
mozzarella
anchovy
artichoke
onion
banana
kiwi
popsicle
lemonade
granola
cookie

Print this chart and cut out the words or write them on index cards for easier mixing and matching.

Ask your child: Do you want to

  • smoosh the words together to make a closed compound, 
  • leave a space to create an open compound word, or
  • include a hyphen to hook up a hyphenated compound word?

How would it feel to receive pizza mail? Is kiwi-wool green yarn or a sign of mold?

You can even turn this into a game!

One person acts out the word (charades-style) while the others try to guess the creative compound word.

Wordplay for the win! 


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