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Enhancing Stories with Adverbs

1. The document provides instructions and examples for adding adverbs to a story to make it more interesting. Students are given a story with blanks where adverbs can be added and are asked to fill in the blanks with multiple adverb options. 2. Students then read the story with and without adverbs and discuss how the adverbs impact the story. They are asked to add two adverbs to each blank to further enhance the story. 3. The document provides discussion questions about the story, such as who is telling it and what food they are looking for, and asks students to write a letter giving advice about diets.

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Enhancing Stories with Adverbs

1. The document provides instructions and examples for adding adverbs to a story to make it more interesting. Students are given a story with blanks where adverbs can be added and are asked to fill in the blanks with multiple adverb options. 2. Students then read the story with and without adverbs and discuss how the adverbs impact the story. They are asked to add two adverbs to each blank to further enhance the story. 3. The document provides discussion questions about the story, such as who is telling it and what food they are looking for, and asks students to write a letter giving advice about diets.

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ADDING INTERESTING ADVERBS

[page one]

Do not use the same adverb twice.

I opened the refrigerator as _______________ as I could,


looking _______________ for food, for something really good.
I ______________ searched the shelves up and down and all around,
but nothing special caught my eye. Nothing tasty could be found.
As I _______________ closed the refrigerator door,
my stomach growled _______________. It wanted more.
Feed me! Feed me! it seemed to say.
Im waiting _______________for food to come my way.
What about my diet? I whispered to it in pain.
Tomorrow is another day! it answered.
Choose one:
* You can begin it then!
* You can start it again.
* Ill tell you when!
* Diets arent for men!
* Youve already started ten!
1. Read your own story to your group. Make a group list of all the adverbs your group has found.

Teacher: Do it frontally on the board.

2. Read the story without any adverbs. What is the difference?


______________________________________________________________________
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3. Add two adverbs in each space. Does this make the story more
interesting or not? Why?
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______________________________________________________________________
4. Who is telling this story? __________________________________________
Why do you think so? ____________________________________________

ADDING INTERESTING ADVERBS

[page two]

What food or kinds of food do you think the speaker was looking for?
__________________________________________________________
What would you look for? ____________________________________
Write a letter to the speaker about his/her diet or about diets in general.

Dear ______________,
___________________________________________________________
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___________________________________________________________
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Yours, ____________________

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