Building Stronger 'Word Choice' in Our Writing!

As we wrote our "I Know a Winter Day Poems", we focused on making our writing stronger with interesting word choice.   We studied alliteration and simile, as techniques to make our writing more engaging for the reader.   We learned alliteration means constructing sentences where more than one word has the same beginning sound.  An example of alliteration is the tongue twister-Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.  After we learned about alliteration, we practiced writing sentences starting with a winter verb and used alliteration to expand our thinking. Next we learned about simile.  A simile is when a comparison is made with the word 'like' or 'as'.  To practice simile, we started with a winter verb and completed our thought with a simile.  The real challenge came when we were asked to write with both alliteration and simile in our winter poems.  Our .G.R.I.T. paid off.....
I Know a Winter Day
By Connor 
I know a winter day,
Throwing a big snowball like a rough football player,
Sledding as fast as a speeding car,
Rubbing in the snow like a snow angel.
I know a winter day,
Snowboarding like a penguin sliding on its belly,
Making a silly snowman as funny as a clown.
I know a winter day!
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I Know a Winter Day
By Sadie 
I know a winter day,
Skating along the ice as fast as a jet,
Sipping hot chocolate as hot as the fire,
Feeling colder than the snow.
I know a winter day,
Sledding down steep piles of snow making the ride feel as bumpy as a toad,
Watching the snow fall like a white curtain closing.
I know a winter day! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Know a Winter Day
By Miles
I know a winter day,
Hurdling over high snow piles like a football player,
Throwing soft snowballs at John like a baseball player,
Building a fantastic snow fort as big as a house.
I know a winter day,
Climbing crunchy snow banks as big as a rock wall,
Sledding on a slippery hill as smooth as ice.
I know a winter day! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I Know a Winter Day
By Sasa 
I know a winter day,
Warming by the fiery flames that look like the sun on a hot day,
Skiing down the black diamond at Mount Snow like a penguin on its 
tummy,
Drinking warm, creamy hot cocoa that feels like a warm bath…yummy!
I know a winter day,
Playing on the smooth, shiny, slippery ice;  like an owl that can’t fly,
Falling asleep after a long fun day like a baby penguin that is tired of 
learning how to fish.
I know a winter day! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I Know a Winter Day
By Tristan 
I know a winter day,
Stomping on the slippery ice slapping snowballs while sledding down a hill 
as fast as a snowmobile,
Slipping on the slippery ice as the snow is coming down-slipping, slipping, 
slipping, on the super slippery ice like a penguin falling all around,
Diving in the snow as deep as it can be-making snow angels deep, deep, deep 
falling on the ground like a snowflake.
I know a winter day,
Building big igloos-big, big, big-breaking piles of snow rolling like a 
boulder,
Jumping in piles of snow while telling jokes-joking all around and stomping like 
an angry bear!
I know a winter day!
We have been waiting for some snow so we can take our  'winter pictures' to hang with our 'Winter Day Poems'.  Sunday's nights snowfall will help!  All of our poems should be up very soon!