Top Tips for Great Writers!

Beat Mrs Sats Marker by being sentence smart!

Vary those sentences!
Sentence of three:
The boy opened the door, slipped through the gap and crept into the garden.

Add words in:
The scruffy dog ran across the busy road.

Add words at the end:
The dog ran across the road because he saw a cat.

Add on at the beginning:
When it saw the cat, the dog ran across the road.

Change words:
The dog scampered across the road when it noticed the cat.

Add in a simile:
The dog, running like the wind, chased after the fleeing cat.

Alliterate:
The canny canine capered after the flea-bitten, fleeing feline.

Start with an ed word:

Frightened
Exhausted
Excited
Worried
Surprised
Petrified
Blessed
Confused
Delighted
Concerned
Cornered
Betrayed

Disappointed

Start with an ing word

Singing
Sighing
Laughing
Forgetting
Mumbling
Staring
Playing
Grinning
Bouncing
Warning
Shooing
Sitting
Growling

Start with a simile

As quick as a flash,
As slow as a snail,
Running like the wind,
Smiling like the Cheshire cat,
Exploding like the cork out of a bottle of pop,
Staring with cat-like eyes,
With a face like thunder,
Cunning as a fox,
Looking like the cat that got the cream,
As mad as a hatter,
Looking as white as a ghost,

Connectives to signal time
At the start,
As the day awoke,
One wet, weary Wednesday,
Timed ticked by so slowly,
Meanwhile,
Soon afterwards,
In the blink of an eye,
Suddenly, without warning,
In a flash,
Days passed,
As the day faded into night,
Finally,

Cool Connectives
if after while as well as although however also besides even though
nevertheless in addition to contrary to despite so as to therefore on the one hand