“Writing is like cooking. You have eight basic ingredients, called the parts of speech. Take a cupful of specific nouns and add a tablespoon of colorful adjectives. Then blend in a pint of action verbs, seasoned with adverbs. Finally, mix in the pronouns, interjections, prepositions, and conjunctions, and you’ll be cooking with words!”

And that’s exactly what this website is about:

cookin’ with words.

Are you ready?

Click on:

Begin by clicking on the following documents

and perusing their contents,

and then simply follow my blog.

Let’s start cookin’!

(Reproducible versions of many of the following documents

are available through my TPT store:

www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Elsa-Pla/Products)

1- Starting and Keeping a Writer's Notebook:

2- Help from MR. HOT AND SPICY:

3- Choosing and Using Yummy Words:

MORE DOCUMENTS WILL BE ADDED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR.

4- Constructing Tasty Sentences

5- The Cookin' (Writing) Process:

6- Composing Appetizing Paragraphs:                                   

Writing a Descriptive Paragraph. Prompt: Describe your family's favorite dish.

7- Building Delectable Essays

Go to the "Resources" page for sites containing graphic 

organizers, student samples, rubrics, and prompts.

8- Creating Succulent Stories

"A word in season, how good it is!" Proverbs 15:23