Try to guess the meaning of the nonsense words. Use contextual clues (the surrounding words) to help you.
1. If you spend the night in a sloopygloop house, you will hear many strange noises such as footsteps walking down the hall. Doors slam shut by themselves and strange noises can be heard throughout the night. Some say ghosts live there.
2. At night, people sit around the campfire and share scary stories or sing songs. Somebody has to chop wood for the fire. To do this, they’ll need an mopeydope. If anybody gets hungry, they can roast marshmallows over the fire.
3. The dream of every athlete is to make it to the pigglydig, which is where the medals are handed out. The first place winners receive the gold medal and have the honour of hearing their countries’ slerpywerp played.
Now write your own sentence with a nonsense word. Remember, give your sentence a TIME, PERSON, PROCESS (verb) and PLACE. A complex sentence has two processes (verbs). See if you can guess a classmates word!
1. If you spend the night in a sloopygloop house, you will hear many strange noises such as footsteps walking down the hall. Doors slam shut by themselves and strange noises can be heard throughout the night. Some say ghosts live there.
2. At night, people sit around the campfire and share scary stories or sing songs. Somebody has to chop wood for the fire. To do this, they’ll need an mopeydope. If anybody gets hungry, they can roast marshmallows over the fire.
3. The dream of every athlete is to make it to the pigglydig, which is where the medals are handed out. The first place winners receive the gold medal and have the honour of hearing their countries’ slerpywerp played.
Now write your own sentence with a nonsense word. Remember, give your sentence a TIME, PERSON, PROCESS (verb) and PLACE. A complex sentence has two processes (verbs). See if you can guess a classmates word!