One of my all-time favorite writing topics focuses on writing showing sentences instead of telling sentences . The anchor chart below highlights the difference between a showing sentence and a telling sentence. Basically, a telling sentence in a story is usually a short sentence that tells about an incident in a vague, uninteresting way. Simple emotion words like sad, angry, brave  or embarrassed  are common in telling sentences . Showing sentences, on the other hand, use vivid verbs, descriptive words, and creative details to describe an incident. A few years back, I wrote a blog post describing a successful writing lesson I co-taught with third grade teachers to introduce the concept of "Show, Don't Tell" to our students. You can check it out HERE . Recently, I decided to create a follow-up lesson. I wanted to highlight showing sentences written by published authors, so I combed through several upper elementary chapter books ( The Tiger Rising by Kate diCamillo,......