We are continuing our series on COR Instruction by exploring sentence structure. I first used the icons below in my book, Story Frames for Teaching Literacy: Enhancing Student Learning through the Power of Storytelling, to help students build complex sentences through asking a series of WH-Questions. This month, I'm using these same questions for a fun fill-in-the-blank story starter.

The theme is Scary Stories. I have included a mini word matrix for the base element SPECT (as in specter). There is also a series of questions to help students build a complex sentence. To learn more about using the matrix for Structured Word Inquiry and morphology instruction, see my blog post HERE. Find the downloadable PDF for the Scary Story Starter HERE. It includes the three pages seen below.

And don't forget to check out The Raven Remix Activity Book. It is based on my decodable chapter book, The Raven Remix: A Mashup of Poe Titles. They may be found on Amazon or at my online STORE. The Activity Book contains 15 different activities for sentence construction.

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